Shell, UN foundations and USA spent millions on Cookstoves.
Since the 1950s,
engineers have made a number of advanced biomass Cookstoves.
It would spend $50 million to distribute 20 million advanced Cookstoves by 2012.
Beginning in 2010, they wanted to distribute 100 million Cookstoves by the end of the decade.
It is said that people working near unsafe Cookstoves or open fire cooking are prone
to high risk of burn.
Nearly 2.9 billion people, a majority of whom are women, still cook with dirty,
smoke and soot-producing Cookstoves and solid fuels.
The project, including the additional financing, will enable about 10 million people living in villages, shoals,
and islands to access electricity and use energy efficient Cookstoves.
In December 2015, the researchers spent 20 days conducting a series of tests in Raipur,
India where over three-quarters of families use Cookstoves to make their meals.
Researchers spent 20 days running a series of tests in Raipur, a city in central India,
where more than three-quarters of the families use Cookstoves to prepare their meals.
Some interventions under consideration in Makanjira include the
distribution of locally made cleaner burning Cookstoves, and outreach to advise community members to cook outside
or in a well-ventilated area of the house.
Solutions for Household air & pollution Nearly 60% of premature deaths from household air pollution are among women and
children who spend hours around sooty Cookstoves burning wood, coal and kerosene.
In December 2015, the researchers spent 20 days running a series of tests in Raipur, a city in central India
where more than three-quarters of the families use Cookstoves to prepare their meals.
Hearing the Minister of Petroleum of Ghana and the Deputy Minister for Gender and Development,
I realize that the ambition to provide clean Cookstoves and cleaner fuels to the households who need it most is definitely there.
In 2010, Shell Foundation, the US government and the UN Foundation- a philanthropy that supports UN activities-
launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves(GACC) at the Clinton Global Initiative,
inaugurated by the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
When the United Nations gave away $50 advanced Cookstoves- very clean,
top-end ones- in its refugee camps globally, the refugees sold it to buy chicken and beer, said Fabio Parigi, executive director of Sustainable Grill, an Italian cookstove company.