This report assesses countries’ access to renewables-based electric cooking to understand their current status and establish associated priorities to support the energy transition. Globally, around 2.3 billion people lacked access to clean cooking technologies and fuels in 2023. Despite substantial gains over the last decade, universal access to clean cooking …
Emissions from solid fuels used for cooking cause ~4 million premature deaths per year. Advanced solid-fuel cookstoves are a potential solution, but they should be assessed by appropriate performance indicators, including biological effects. The researchers evaluated two categories of solid-fuel cookstoves for eight pollutant and four mutagenicity emission factors, correlated …
A team led by an Indian-origin air pollution expert has found an emerging risk to the environment from wood burning stoves in pizza restaurants and charcoal in steakhouses. A recent study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, has shown emissions in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. This work was …
This paper presents findings from studies in Cambodia and Kenya commissioned by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation to understand the impact of health messaging on the purchase of clean cookstoves. The Cambodia study took an action research approach to test the effects of positive and negative health messaging, as well as …
Biomass cooking fuels are commonly used by Indian households especially the poorest. Cataract is highly prevalent in India and the major cause of vision loss. The evidence on biomass fuels and cataract is limited. The objective is to examine the association of biomass cooking fuels with cataract and type of …
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, to provide concessional LPG connections, is a step in the right direction but much more needs to be done by 2019 and beyond to ensure homes in India cook using modern fuels. This article explores the issues of providing connections, subsidy provisioning and ensuring sustained …
Over half of the population in both China and India use traditional cookstoves that emit harmful air pollutants resulting in over a million annual premature deaths. Reducing pollution from cookstoves is a key priority as emissions from traditional cookstoves and open fires with solid fuels is a major health concern. …
Over half of the population in both China and India use traditional cookstoves that emit harmful air pollutants resulting in over a million annual premature deaths. Reducing pollution from cookstoves is a key priority as emissions from traditional cookstoves and open fires with solid fuels is a major health concern. …
Household air pollution is the single most important environmental health risk worldwide, and women and children are at particularly high risk from exposure. This global report provides new data on the still-pervasive use of polluting fuels for home cooking, lighting and heating, as well as an in-depth look at the …
Clean cook-stove manufacturer Envirofit India, a subsidiary of Envirofit International, is targeting to sell 10 lakh such stoves by 2020 in the country, a top official said on Wednesday. “In the first seven years of our existence in India, since 2008, we sold one million cook-stoves. Now we are planning …
Emissions from solid fuels used for cooking cause ~4 million premature deaths per year. Advanced solid-fuel cookstoves are a potential solution, but they should be assessed by appropriate performance indicators, including biological effects. Objective: The researchers evaluated two categories of solid-fuel cookstoves for 8 pollutant- and 4 mutagenicity-emission factors, correlated …
This briefing note synthesizes the latest evidence on the impacts of traditional biomass cooking and discusses options for addressing these challenges, with recommendations for policy-makers in Kenya and across sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, 76% of the population relies on traditional biomass for cooking, with serious implications for public health (including …
Indoor air pollutants — caused by 'chulhas' for example — contribute to increased rate of respiratory diseases and low weight among newborns. One of the major reasons for low weight among newborns in rural India was the continuous exposure of pregnant women to indoor air pollution, according to doctors. Doctors …
One of the major reasons for low weight among newborns in rural India was the continuous exposure of pregnant women to indoor air pollution, according to doctors. Doctors have said indoor air pollution caused by the 'chulhas' burning wood, coal and animal dung as fuel was the major factor behind …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is introducing on a pilot basis a new locally made energy efficient cooking stove for use by rural dwellers across Ghana, as a means to prevent or reduce the use of firewood for cooking. The newly-introduced cooking stove, which is made from ordinary clay, cow …
The potential for domestic biogas is enormous in Cambodia with 1 million households that have sufficient livestock to feed for the smallest biogas digester. Biogas could therefore help to address HAP in Cambodia to millions of rural inhabitants. The National Biodigester Programme (NBP) of Cambodia, a partnership between SNV and …
Fossil-fuel burning for cooking purposes accounts for 12% of PM2.5 pollution in Delhi, traditional stoves produce soot that can cause asthma imla’s eyes burn and a cough escapes her throat as she prepares lunch for her children on a bright winter’s day. A stay-at-home mother, Simla cooks and heats water …
A number of public health catastrophes - arising largely out of environmental reasons — are staring the people of India in the face. While the debate over polluted air and how to control it rages on in the national capital, people have also had to contend with a host of …
GAURIBIDANUR (CHIKKABALLAPUR DISTRICT): Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more. Her kitchen is now fitted with an LPG stove. Like 274 other households in Vyachakurahalli of Gauribidanur …
Nov 26 Applying 17 proven national low-carbon strategies globally could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030, according to a study by the Finnish think tank Sitra. The report said Brazil's drive to reduce deforestation could be copied in Indonesia and elsewhere, and Japan's programme to make household …
This paper presents an overview of current household energy trends in Africa, and the reasons why access to modern cooking facilities remains so low. It then presents the latest evidence on the health, environmental and socio-economic impacts of traditional biomass use in sub-Saharan Africa, with a dedicated section on the …
