Africa Secures $900M in Clean Cooking Commitments

Expanded clean cooking access will reduce respiratory diseases and premature deaths from indoor air pollution affecting millions of African households.

Across Africa, where nearly half the population still cooks over open flames and breathes air thick with the equivalent of twenty cigarettes a day, a $900 million commitment has emerged to redirect that ancient and costly practice toward cleaner ground. Governments, development banks, private investors, and philanthropic organizations have converged on the recognition that clean cooking is not a comfort but a cornerstone — of health, of forests, of time returned to women and children who bear the heaviest burden of the smoke. The pledge is the largest coordinated effort yet to move millions of

Africa Secures $900M in Clean Cooking Commitments

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