The approximate number of people without access to clean cooking facilities is 2.8 billion,
primarily in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Among those, 2.5 billion people cook with biomass …

Cooking is an essential and energy-intensive activity. Populations in industrialized countries
enjoy nearly universal access to electricity and gas for clean cooking, while about 2.5 billion …

Well into the second decade of the 21st century, almost 3 billion people are exposed to high
concentrations of household air pollution (HAP) from the burning of solid fuels in open fires …

Extensive world press coverage attended the speech by US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton on September 21, 2010 announcing the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. The …

Approximately 40% of the global population relies on solid fuels such as coal, fuelwood,
dung and charcoal and uses traditional stoves to meet household cooking and heating …

Approximately three billion people do not have access to modern cooking fuels and
technologies. This has clear impacts on social and economic development, adverse health …

Indonesia's household cooking fuels have undergone a dramatic shift in recent years, owing
primarily to the government's highly successful Kerosene-to-Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) …

India has recently launched the National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative (NCI) to develop
next-generation cleaner biomass cookstoves and deploy them to all Indian households that …

Globally 2.6 billion people, representing around 38% of the total population, depend on
solid biomass fuels to meet their basic energy needs for cooking. While rural communities …

For the past 40 years, the dominant 'policy'on cooking energy in the Global South has been
to improve the combustion efficiency of biomass fuels. This was said to alleviate the burdens …