THE GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF TRADITIONAL STOVE OPTIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES

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Contribution of Philippine traditional stoves to global warming

Even though modernization has overcome many aspects such as technologies, style of cooking
and many more. These advancements are limited only to these people who were on the working class
up to the upper class people. Because they were the only ones have the capability of buying modernized
technologies such as stove in cooking their meal. On the other hand many people especially in the
Philippines, were included in the lower class. These people are those who are living in the slums,
isolated area such as rivers and walkways, inside or outside the city. In their current state, they don’t
have the capability of involving themselves in the modern era that’s why they were the least to people
who adopt modern practices.

Traditional stoves compared to, modern stove is a type of cook ware that uses charcoal or fried
branches that can be used as fuel to produce fire. Usually traditional stoves has uncontrolled heat
variable which is very unsafe. While modern stoves has different factors such as gas for its fuel, and
metal plated stove which has a control variable heat adjusting knob which is very user friendly. As stated
by stateofglobalair.org, in the year 2017, the Philippines is contributing 56% of house hold air pollution
on a given ration of 5:50 , in which it means that, for every 50 million families, 5 families were using
traditional stoves and these families are adding 10 percent of air pollution due to solid fuel cookware.

https://www.stateofglobalair.org/sites/default/files/soga_2019_report.pdf

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Wood fueled

Many countries in the South East Asia like the Philippines demands 20 to 80 percent of energy
that was meet by burning of wood fuels. Wood biomass tends to be used in traditional ways. For the
most part, the entire mechanism from wood fuel production to wood fuel use involves informal
unregistered operations affecting many community sectors. Trading, production, consumption,
distribution has proven its efficiency in a very long time. Wood fuel is not only found in homes in urban
and rural areas. In many cities and metropolitan areas wood fuel is commonly used as primary,
alternative or supplementary fuel by low, medium and high-income classes. Wood fuels are also stored,
circulated, and sold to provide revenue and jobs for millions of Filipinos. Given this value, very little is
understood about how the country produces, handles, exports and consumes wood fuels. No single
government body is responsible for implementing woody biomass energy policies, since wood fuel is
often perceived to be inferior and a major cause of deforestation and environmental degradation.

In accordance to https://www.climatecentral.org, research has been conducted in which it has

sharply downgraded the perceived of the climate impacts of burning woodfuels by the low class people
and the developing countries who merely rely on wood to keep warm and cook food.in the Philippines it
is estimated that 2.8 million families were forced to use wood for fuel, Sometimes covering their humble
homes with life-shortening soot, the vast majority of them cut down and harvest their fuel in ways that
allow trees and habitats to regenerate..