Open fire cookingCourtesy Tallia Miller

Smoke in my eyes (and lungs)

Cooking food on an open fire may sound romantic but in reality breathing smoke and scrounging for fire wood make it not so pleasant. It is estimated that the smoke from cooking fires leads to nearly 2 million premature deaths each year.
A Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has formed to

"save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions."

100 million new stoves by 2020

A better burning stove should not be rocket science but several factors should help the Alliance meet their goal of 100 million households converting to clean cookstoves and fuels by 2020.

• Recent advances in clean cookstove design, testing, and monitoring
• Compelling new research on the health and environmental benefits of clean cookstov
• Recent commercial success and development of a number of business models in the field
• The advent of national cookstove programs in India, Mexico, Peru and elsewhere
• The increasing need for effective near- and long-term action to address climate change at the local and regional level; and
• The potential for carbon finance to fund stove initiatives at greater scale

Learn more

BBC video
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