"Kyoto box" wins startup funding

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Trials of 10,000 units in ten countries will be used to develop an application for carbon credits

The box is simple to produce A box designed to improve the efficiency of using firewood to boil water in developing countries won $75,000 in funding from sustainable development charity Forum for the...

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