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Cooks work over open fires in Kivukoni fish market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – Copyright AFP\/File Daniel Hayduk<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Catherine HOURS<\/em><\/p>\n

Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes millions of deaths every year and fuels global warming.<\/p>\n

Some 2.3 billion people across 128 countries breathe in harmful smoke when they cook on basic stoves or over open fires, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA)-African Development Bank (ADB) report that sounded the alarm last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It said 3.7 million people a year die prematurely from harmful cooking practices, with children and women most at risk.<\/p>\n

The IEA said the \u201cunprecedented\u201d Paris gathering aims to be \u201ca moment of changing the direction\u201d, its sustainability and technology director Laura Cozzi told journalists.<\/p>\n

The problem \u201ctouches on gender, it touches on forestry, it touches on climate change, it touches on energy, it touches on health,\u201d added Cozzi.<\/p>\n

A third of the world cooks with fuels which produce harmful fumes when burned, including wood, charcoal, coal, animal dung and agricultural waste.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They pollute indoor and outdoor air with fine particles that penetrate the lungs and cause multiple respiratory and cardiovascular problems, including cancer and strokes.<\/p>\n

These cooking practices are the third highest cause of premature deaths in the world and the second highest in Africa. In young children, they are a major cause of pneumonia, experts say.<\/p>\n

They also prevent women and children from accessing education or earning a wage, as they spend hours looking for fuel.<\/p>\n

The meeting at UNESCO\u2019s headquarters will primarily focus on Africa and aims to garner financial backing for a major push on the problem.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Huge \u2018bang for its buck\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n

Greenhouse gas emissions from using basic stoves and deforestation from collecting wood also contribute hugely to global warming.<\/p>\n

Switching to clean cooking methods, such as LPG or electric cooking, would save 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 a year by 2030 \u2014 roughly the amount emitted by ships and planes last year, according to the IEA.<\/p>\n

Subsidised LPG and free stoves in China, India and Indonesia led to a decline in people without access to clean cooking between 2010 to 2022. But the same was not true for Africa.<\/p>\n

Four out of five households in sub-Saharan Africa still rely on highly polluting cooking fuels and the situation is getting worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a lot of concerted efforts that are yielding benefits in Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania,\u201d said IEA expert Dan Wetzel.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut really what we see is that population growth is outstripping the progress there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The funds needed are a fraction of global investment in energy, the IEA pointed out. The estimated $8 billion needed annually worldwide is less than one percent of government spending on energy measures in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of this sub-Saharan Africa would need $4 billion. Current worldwide investment in clean cooking is about $2.5 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDollar for dollar, it\u2019s hard to imagine a single intervention that could have more bang for its buck in terms of health emissions and development than this,\u201d Wetzel said.<\/p>\n

Such financial support is essential as many African households cannot afford a suitable cooker or fuel.<\/p>\n

But the IEA also recommends strong national leadership as well as grassroots efforts to change social norms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Bid to end deadly cooking methods which stoke global warming
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