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ABOUT BIOLITE: BioLite designs, manufactures, and sells innovative consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. Based in Dumbo Brooklyn NY, BioLite’s team of talented engineers and business professionals work across two distinct business segments, Outdoor Markets which serves the energy needs of outdoor enthusiasts, primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia, and Emerging Markets which serves the energy needs of rural consumers in developing countries living in energy poverty in East Africa and India. Learn more at BioLiteEnergy.com Emerging Markets: Half the planet still cooks on indoor open wood fires and the toxic smoke they emit kills nearly 4 million people every year, twice as many as malaria. BioLite has developed an advanced, affordable, clean- burning stove that combines unprecedented emissions reductions with economically valuable electricity generation. The HomeStove™ is capable of reducing indoor smoke by more than 90% while cutting fuel use in half. By providing our largely off-grid customers with the ability to charge cell phones and LED lights, our stoves create economic incentive for purchase and continued use, ensuring sustainable delivery of our health and environmental benefits. Outdoor Markets: BioLite has quickly emerged as a leading innovator in the personal energy space. Whether camping in the backcountry or toughing it out during a power outage, our core technologies allow people to cook, charge, and light. Our portfolio now includes the flagship CampStove family products as well as award winning solar, battery, and lighting products for multiple settings. Our products are now sold in over 70 countries worldwide and are found in all major outdoor retailers, including REI, Lowes, Cabelas, Montbell, MEC, and Bass Pro Shops, among others. BioLiteEnergy.com https://www.bioliteenergy.com

BURN is working to create a world where cooking positively impacts all life on earth by producing the world’s most efficient biomass, liquid fuel, and electric cookstoves. BURN is the largest vertically integrated modern cookstove company in the world, providing world-class R&D, manufacturing, and carbon offset projects from our HQ in Kenya and across 10 countries in Africa. Our team – half of whom are women – produces and sells over 200,000 stoves per month at our solar-powered facility in Kenya. The company was founded by CEO Peter Scott, who is recognised as the global leader in cookstove commercialisation. BURN has received recognition for its cutting-edge innovation and environmental & social impact from, among others Bloomberg New Energy Finance Award, Global Leap Awards, and Ashden International. BURN is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to creating the best workplace in the world. Visit BURN/careers if you would like to be part of a world-class team that is committed to making positive, measurable change for people, forests, and the climate.

Envirofit International is a social enterprise that innovates smart energy products that improve lives on a global scale. Our vision is that everyone has access to affordable energy products that improve their lives, their community, their economy, and the environment. More than half the world’s population still cooks over an open fire, causing more than 4 million deaths annually – more than HIV, TB and malaria combined. Using a market-based approach, Envirofit pioneered the clean cookstove market in 2003, and has impacted more than 5 million livelihoods across 45 countries. With an extensive manufacturing, supply chain, and distribution network in place, Envirofit aims to sell 5 million stove stoves by 2020. Becoming the market leader in the design, development and delivery of clean cookstoves, Envirofit used a market-based model to develop and commercialize high performing biomass cookstoves that are efficient, durable, affordable, and appeal to consumers. In addition to the aesthetic qualities, Envirofit’s stoves are designed to offer economic, health and environmental benefits, reducing smoke and toxic emissions by up to 80 percent and reducing fuel use, fuel cost, and cooking time by up to 60 percent. The stoves reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by up to 60 percent, black carbon by up to 40 percent.