Project Details

Globally, over a third of all people cook on fires using carbon intense resources like coal, charcoal, and wood. Efficient cookstoves help reduce consumption of these resources, protecting forests from unsustainable harvesting that leads to deforestation.

Efficient stoves not only reduce emissions from carbon dioxide and methane but also aid in reducing air pollution by reducing the release of pollutants like black carbon and carbon monoxide. Financing these projects can help to reduce up to 5 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions released each year and prevent up to 4 million smoke and soot related premature deaths. 

Co-benefits

Efficient, clean cookstoves reduce household air pollution by reducing harmful emissions. Improvement in air quality due to removal of solid fuel cookstoves could avoid over 10 million premature deaths globally between by 2050 (Lacey et al., 2017).

Clean cooking can also boost household incomes as time formerly spent gathering fuel on economic activities can now be spent elsewhere.

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Sustainable Development Goals Supported

  • Goal 3 is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

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  • Climate change is a global challenge that affects everyone, everywhere.

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  • Goal 15 aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

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Project Certifications

  • gold standard: climate security and sustainable development

Explore the Science

Clean cooking can reduce pollution from burning wood or coal in traditional stoves and protect human health.

According to Project Drawdown, an estimated 43 percent of families in low- and middle-income countries were mainly using cookstoves fueled by traditional wood or coal stoves for cooking, with concomitant health and environmental effects.

Supporting efficient cookstoves for clean cooking worldwide can reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by up to 76 gigatons. This solution would cost $130-300 billion to implement.

These results include the reduction of black carbon, the second-most impactful climate pollutant, by 8–20 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent. There are also additional benefits to the health of millions of households.

Discover the impact and methodology behind this Climate Solution at Project Drawdown.

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