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Clean Cooking Protects the Climate and Environment

Cooking over open fires or inefficient stoves typically entails burning fuels (such as wood, charcoal, coal, and kerosene) that release harmful, climate-warming emissions.

These emissions of short-lived climate pollutants—such as black carbon and methane (CH4), as well as other greenhouse gases, such as carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2)—occur because of the incomplete combustion of kerosene and solid fuels during this form of cooking. 

As a result, household energy use makes up more than half of all global black carbon emissions, a significant contributor to climate change. Clean cooking is vital to combating global climate change and reducing environmental degradation.

Read CCA’s Climate and Environment Factsheet

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