Clean cooking and the SDGs: Integrated analytical approaches to guide energy interventions for health and environment goals.

ABSTRACT: Development and implementation of clean cooking technology for households in low and middle income countries (LMICs) offer enormous promise to advance at least five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 3. Good health and well-being; 5. Gender equality; 7. Affordable and clean energy; 13. Climate action; 15. Life on land. Programs are being implemented around the world to introduce alternative cooking technologies, and we are well on the way to achieving the goal set by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves to reach 100 million homes with cleaner and more efficient cooking methods by 2020. Despite evidence that household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel combustion is responsible for 3-4 million early deaths per year, many cookstove programs are motivated and/or financed by climate ch

SUBMITTER: Rosenthal J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975963 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature