clean technology /newsroom/taxonomy/term/11597/all en As rural China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional wood and coal stoves persists /newsroom/channels/news/rural-china-rapidly-adopts-clean-energy-use-traditional-wood-and-coal-stoves-persists-303128 <p>Old habits are hard to break. A 平特五不中-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people鈥檚 reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy. The study was published recently in <i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0432-x">Nature Sustainability</a></i>.</p> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:02:13 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 190089 at /newsroom