Summit on Clean Cooking: How affordable • Table.Briefings

Cooking as a health hazard: women in a refugee camp in Malawi after floods.

More than two billion people cook with wood and coal, leading to millions of deaths annually, mostly among women and children. This problem could be significantly reduced in a relatively simple, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way. A summit in Paris is debating the pathways to achieve this.

With a high-level summit, representatives from states, businesses, charities, development banks and the International Energy Agency (IEA) aim to make significant progress for climate action and development on Wednesday in Paris: The Clean Cooking initiative aims to address a significant problem, particularly in Africa, improve the health of millions of people, protect nature, and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions relatively inexpensively.

Summit on Clean Cooking: How affordable climate action could save millions of lives

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