Climate Change

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Four million people die each year from breathing in toxic cooking smoke. The smoke is harmful to their health and the environment. It is a major contributor of black carbon emissions, which leads to climate change.

Additionally, open fires require a lot of wood and charcoal, causing mass deforestation. Throughout the developing world, most cooking in poorer households is still done using fuelwood, charcoal, and other biomass on inefficient fires and stoves. In rural Africa, poor households can spend up to 35% of their income on these inefficient energy forms. Affordable and efficient cooking fuels and stoves are needed to reduce indoor air pollution, cut household energy costs and reduce time lost in gathering fuelwood.

Current options for truly clean cooking, including LPG and electricity, are expensive, so reliance on traditional biomass for cooking and heating will likely continue for decades to come. One way of mitigating the negative effects of cooking with biomass is the introduction of improved cookstoves.

CCP will also campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of clean cooking and influence consumers to adopt cleaner cookstoves and fuels.

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