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With funding from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), National Science Foundation (NSF), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA, Sweden), QUALCOMM Incorporated (USA), The G. Unger Vetelsen Foundation (USA), and private donors (Dr. E. Frieman, Dr. D. Zaelke)

Major findings from the Pilot Phase of Project Surya

  1. Innovations in Payments for Health Benefits of Improved Cookstoves

    2. Chapter in the forthcoming book Broken Pumps and Promises: Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health, Authored by Ken Newcombe, Tara Ramanathan, Nithya Ramanathan, and Erin Ross. Edited by Evan Thomas. Publisher: Springer

  2. Preferences for improved cookstoves: Evidence from rural villages in north India

    3. Energy Economics, 52, 287–298, 2015 Full .pdf

  3. Reductions in Indoor Black Carbon Concentrations from Improved Biomass Stoves in Rural India

    4. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(7), 4749-4756, 2014 Full .pdf

  4. Can Currently Available Advanced Combustion Biomass Cook-Stoves Provide Health Relevant Exposure Reductions? Results from Initial Assessment of Select Commercial Models in India

    5. Ecohealth, 11(3), 1-17, 2014 Full .pdf

  5. Methodology for Deriving Climate Credits for improved solid biofuel cookstoves

    6. Surya C2P2 Report March, 2014 Full .pdf

  6. Laboratory Demonstration and Field Verification of a Wireless Cookstove Sensing System (WiCS) for Determining Cooking Duration and Fuel Consumption

    7. Energy for Sustainable Development, 23, 59-67, 2014 Full .pdf

  7. Household Air Pollution from Cooktsoves: Impacts on Health and Climate

    8. Global Climate Change and Public Health, Respiratory Medicine 7, Chapter 13, 2014 Full .pdf

  8. How do People in Rural India Perceive Improved Stoves and Clean Fuel? Evidence from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

    9. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 11, 1341-1358, 2014 Full .pdf

  9. First Roll Out of C2P2 Stoves in 5000 Homes: C2P2_McQuown5000

    10. Project Surya, 2014 Full .pdf

  10. Bringing Climate Solutions Down to Earth

    11. Huffington Post, 2014 Article link

  11. Viewpoints: Focusing on cleaning up the air

    12. The Sacramento Bee, 2014 Full .pdf

  12. Climate Credit Pilot Project: Implementation Plan

    13. Project Surya, 2013 Full .pdf

  13. Cleaner cooking solutions to achieve health, climate, and economic co-benefits

    14. Environmental Science and Technology, 47(9), 3944–52, 2013. Full .pdf

  14. Distribution of improved cookstoves: analysis of field experiments using strategic niche management theory

    15. Sustainability Science, 2012 Full .pdf

  15. Real-time assessment of Black Carbon pollution in Indian households due to traditional and improved biomass cookstoves

    16. Environmental Science and Technology, Published Online February 2012, 8 pp Full .pdf

  16. Link between local scale BC emissions and large scale atmospheric solar absorption

    17. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 1173-1187, 2012 Full .pdf.
    Previously featured in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 11, 21319-21361, 2011. Full .pdf

  17. A Cellphone Based System for Large Scale Monitoring of Black Carbon

    18. Atmospheric Environment, 45 (26),4481-4487, 2011 Full .pdf

  18. Black carbon emissions from biomass and fossil fuels in rural India

    19. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 7289-7299, 2011 Full .pdf

  19. Project Surya Prospectus

    20. University of California, San Diego, 14 pp, 2010 Full .pdf

  20. Mitigation of Global and Regional Climate Change: Buying the planet time by reducing black carbon, methane, and ozone

    21. Project Surya, 2009
    Featured in United Nations, Black Carbon e-Bulletin. 1:2 (Sept. 2009):3 Full .pdf and e-Bulletin

  21. Reduction of Air Pollution and Global Warming by Cooking with Renewable Sources

    22. White Paper, 2007 Full .pdf

Additional information about Project Surya can be obtained from these websites: Surya: Climate Credit Pilot Project and Climate Credit Pilot Project