While there are innovative local cookstove and fuel enterprises in Haiti, they face a difficult operating and policy environment with tariff barriers, lack of access to raw materials, and weak sector coordination mechanisms. Consumers’ inability to pay for higher performing products and the low awareness of the benefits of clean cooking further complicate prospects. In addition, a rapid transition...

Explore global cooking energy data across multiple dimensions. This portal brings together global datasets relevant for cookstove project activities, with the aim of supporting efforts to quantify the climate and other impacts of cooking energy transitions. ...

This factsheet provides an overview of Clean Cooking Alliance's specific gender strategy for increasing the role of women in the clean cooking sector and for addressing gender issues to scale adoption....

Surface ozone (O3) pollution poses significant threats to crop production and food security worldwide, but an assessment of present-day and future crop yield losses due to exposure to O3 still abides with great uncertainties, mostly due: (1) to the large spatiotemporal variability and uncertain future projections of O3 concentration itself; (2) different methodological approaches to quantify O3 ex...

Background: Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010), authors evaluated the impact of household cooking with solid fuels on regional population-weighted ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm) pollution (APM2.5).Objectives: A...

This factsheet provides an overview of Clean Cooking Alliance's strategies for mitigating climate change and protecting the environment through the scale-up of cleaner, more modern stoves and fuels....

Despite the ongoing impact of the energy crisis and Covid-19 pandemic, progress on access to electricity started again in 2023.The number of people worldwide lacking access to electricity in 2023 declined to 750 million people, about 10 million less than in 2022, which was the first year in decades showing a global reversal in progress. The 2023 progress was mainly driven by renewed grid expansion...

Key factsDioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).Dioxins are found throughout the world in the environment and they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals.More than 90% of human exposure is through food, mainly meat and dairy products, fish and shellfish. Many national authorities have programmes in place ...

Large quantities of mismanaged plastic waste threaten the health and wellbeing of billions worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where waste management capacity is being outstripped by increasing levels of consumption and plastic waste generation. One of the main self-management strategies adopted by 2 billion people who have no waste collection service, is to burn their disc...

Urbanization, industrialization, and increasing fossil fuel consumption are generally identified as the main contributors to poor air quality. Smog is a form of visible air pollution processes that can cause diverse health problems (e.g., pulmonary, respiratory, and skin diseases). In Lahore, the second-largest city of Pakistan, smog pollution has been a significant socioeconomic issue since 2013 ...