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What is a Clean Cookstove

Clean cooking solutions are those clean cookstove technologies, fuels, equipment, and practices that address the health and environmental impacts associated with traditional cookstoves. Many technologies exist that can do this but not everyone can purchase them.
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Cookstove technology

Throughout the world, people use a variety of cookstoves and fuels to meet their daily cooking needs. Over 40% of the world's population still burns various forms of biomass – such as wood, dung, charcoal, or crop residues – or coal as a cooking fuel. They cook over open fires or on rudimentary cookstoves. This way of cooking emits a harmful smoke that causes range of deadly chronic and acute health effects such as child pneumonia, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, and low birth-weight.
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Cookstove Fuels

There are a wide variety of fuels currently employed around the world for household cooking purposes. Each of the fuel types described below differ in their health and climate impacts, efficiency, and availability, but are important pieces in the clean cookstoves sector today.
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Behavioral & Structural Solutions

There are many behavioral and structural components that can reduce human exposures to cookstove smoke. Each of these clean cooking solutions helps to alleviate immediate exposures to smoke from cookstoves and are thus to be encouraged as much as possible. However, their health impact may not be as great as envisioned if ambient air is heavily polluted, thereby leading to more chronic, if lesser, exposures to poor outdoor air quality. These solutions will also have minimal or no positive impact on the climate.
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