“Exposure to smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires—the primary means of cooking and heating for nearly three billion people in the developing world—causes 1.9 million premature deaths annually, with women and young children the most affected. Reliance on biomass for cooking and heating forces women and children to spend many hours each week collecting wood. Women face severe personal security risks as they forage for fuel, especially from refugee camps and in conflict zones. Cookstoves also increase pressures on local environmental resources (e.g., forests, habitat) and contribute to climate change at the regional and global levels.”
The Global Alliance is focused on
Different elements of the technology and fuel spectrum include: clean fuels, stove technologies, and behavioral and structural solutions.
Different delivery mechanisms for these solutions include various business models, carbon credits, government programs, and humanitarian efforts.
Credit: heard about it in a Time interview with Hillary Clinton and Juila Roberts.
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