This video can be downloaded here: www. ashdenawards. GERES won an Ashden Award org for Sustainable Energy in 2006. To learn more, visit the link above and check the Ashden Awards Blog ashdenawards. blogspot. com, the Groupe Energies Renouvelables share, Environnement et Solidarités (GERES), the Cambodian Fuelwood Saving Project (CFSP), which has developed an inexpensive charcoal stove, the ‘New Lao’ stove. This uses at least 22% less coal than the “traditional Lao ‘stoves that are commonly used in Cambodia. More than 130000 New Lao stoves have sold 14 businesses in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, in the past three years were produced. About 95% of Cambodians cooking with biomass fuels. This is costly, has adverse health effects and is bad for the environment. Cambodia’s great natural biodiversity is threatened by uncontrolled consumption of wood. Much of this demand for wood and a significant amount of charcoal which is the preferred fuel for cooking in urban areas activated by using 40% of the population of Phnom Penh. The forest area is decreasing, but the price of coal has risen very little in the last ten years, due to a thriving (but largely illegal) trade, and the absence of taxes and other limiting factors. One way to reduce unsustainable consumption of wood is worked by reducing the demand for coal. CFSP with stove users and producers, with a stove, more efficient and durable than the conventional ovens bucket-type develop …