“Bamboo, the perfect biomass grass, grows naturally across Africa and presents a viable, cleaner and sustainable alternative to wood fuel,” said Michael Kwaku, Country Director for INBAR Ghana. “Without such an alternative, wood charcoal will remain the primary household energy source for decades to come—with disastrous consequences”.
This is an initiative referred to as “Bamboo as Sustainable Biomass Energy” aimed at passing on Chinese technologies to Ghana to produce sustainable green biofuels, using locally grown bamboo resources. Due to the fact that about 65% of the rural Ghanaian population depend on the forest for fuel needs, sustainable approaches to energy access need to be designed to keep the environment safe, and the bamboo plant also has the potential to help combat soil degradation, deforestation and climate change mitigation.
Source
Brittlebank, W. (2013). Bamboo Biofuel Technology Enhancing Ghana's Green Energy Sector. Climate Action. Retrieved from:
William Brittlebank, "BAMBOO BIOFUEL TECHNOLOGY ENHANCING GHANA’S GREEN ENERGY SECTOR", contributed by Barbara Ackun, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 11 June 2020, accessed 25 April 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/bamboo-biofuel-technology-enhancing-ghana’s-green-energy-sector
Critical Commentary
“Bamboo, the perfect biomass grass, grows naturally across Africa and presents a viable, cleaner and sustainable alternative to wood fuel,” said Michael Kwaku, Country Director for INBAR Ghana. “Without such an alternative, wood charcoal will remain the primary household energy source for decades to come—with disastrous consequences”.
This is an initiative referred to as “Bamboo as Sustainable Biomass Energy” aimed at passing on Chinese technologies to Ghana to produce sustainable green biofuels, using locally grown bamboo resources. Due to the fact that about 65% of the rural Ghanaian population depend on the forest for fuel needs, sustainable approaches to energy access need to be designed to keep the environment safe, and the bamboo plant also has the potential to help combat soil degradation, deforestation and climate change mitigation.