clean cooking

LPG, a Useful “Transitional” Fuel for the UN’s Clean Cooking Effort

By Philippe Benoit and Kaushik Deb
One of the key efforts under the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals is to provide poor households with access to clean cooking technologies to replace, in particular, the burning of solid biomass (e.g., fuelwood and charcoal) in traditional open stoves that kills millions of women and children.

Invisible Women in Energy: Millions of Household Biomass Producers

By Alexandra Peek and Philippe Benoit
An estimated 2.4 billion people currently lack access to clean cooking fuels, with the majority relying on biomass (firewood, charcoal, dung) to meet household cooking needs. This is only a slight decrease from 2017, when 2.5 billion people lacked access to clean cooking fuels.
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