Benefits of Clean cooking stove
Improved cooking stoves offer a variety of benefits, both for the health of the planet and the health of people. The use of cleaner and more efficient improved cooking stoves and fuels can dramatically reduce exposure to smoke from traditional stoves and can contribute to mitigating the risk of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It has huge implications for reducing gender inequalities as clean cooking stoves reduce the time women and girls spend collecting firewood. Access to clean cooking stoves is linked to achieving various sustainable development goals (SDGs) such as SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 3 – Good Health & Well-being and most importantly SDG 5 – Gender Equality and SDG 13 – Climate Action. Simply put, without a shift towards universal clean cooking solutions, the achievement of most SDGs will also be affected adversely