Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
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We are working with a strong network of public, private and non-profit partners to help overcome the market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in developing countries.
The use of open fires and traditional cookstoves and fuels is one of the world's most pressing health and environmental problems. Globally, three billion people rely on solid fuels to cook, causing serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionally affect women and children. According to the World Health Organization, household air pollution from cooking kills over 4 million people every year and sickens millions more.
Yet, safe, affordable, and accessible clean cooking solutions exist that can dramatically reduce fuel consumption and exposure to harmful cookstove smoke, while providing economic opportunities in communities around the world.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance), hosted by the UN Foundation, is at the forefront of efforts to promote the adoption of clean cooking solutions and spur universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels. Launched in September 2010 by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Alliance has an ambitious 10-year goal to foster the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020. The Alliance and its partners are working to establish a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions by addressing the market barriers that impede the production, deployment, and use of clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels in developing countries.
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Invest in the Future of Clean Cooking
Globally, 3 billion people rely on solid fuels to cook, causing serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionally affect women and children. Every year, indoor air pollution from cooking kills over 4 million people and sickens millions more. Investment in market-based solutions is needed to increase the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels that can save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment.
On November 20-21st, world leaders and global innovators came together in New York for the Cookstoves Future Summit, an invitation-only, two-day summit to further fuel and scale the fast-growing global clean cooking sector. During the Cookstoves Future Summit, the Alliance, in concert with its 1,000 partners, sought to secure financial and in-kind commitments to invest in the clean cookstoves and fuels market and bring them to scale. Participants made commitments to concrete financial, policy, and programmatic actions to grow the clean cooking sector. For more information, see http://cookstovesfuturesummit.org/
