GLOBAL BID TO TACKLE COOKING SMOKE
Baku, September 21 (AZERTAC). The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced a global partnership to tackle the scourge of toxic smoke from indoor cooking fires, according to BBC News.
Cooking smoke is estimated to shorten the lives of 1.9 million people a year; it also contributes to climate change.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a partnership between the US government and other nations along with charitable foundations.
It is believed to be the first major attempt to tackle the issue worldwide.
The project will attempt to build on national programs already underway in India, Mexico and Peru.
It aims to introduce modern low-pollution stoves to the homes of 100 million poor people by 2020.
Clean stoves run on biomass (with chimneys and clean-burn mechanisms), or gas, or on solar power.
The stoves program would help to protect poor people from eye disease, lung disease and cancer; save forests from being ravaged for fuel; reduce CO2 emissions and reduce emissions of black smoke, which also contributes to global warming.
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