Access to Clean Cooking: A Global Emergency

Today, more than 3 billion people worldwide still do not have access to clean, modern energy (IEA, 2020). Of these, most rely on solid biomass, kerosene, or coal as their primary cooking fuel. Household air pollution, mostly from cooking smoke, is linked to around 2.5 million premature deaths annually (IEA, 2020). In fact, in the 1990’s the World Bank estimated that 50% of deaths due to poor household environments in developing countries were caused by indoor pollution.