Publication - World Energy Outlook Special Report Universal Access to Clean Cooking in Africa
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The world has made immense progress in improving access to clean cooking facilities, but to date momentum has been slower in Africa. Today, 2 billion people worldwide – a quarter of the global population – still cook over open fires or on basic stoves, inhaling harmful smoke and spending hours in search of fuels such as firewood or animal waste. Since 2010, almost 1.5 billion people in Asia and Latin America gained access to modern cooking stoves and fuels, halving the number of people without clean cooking in the span of fifteen years. These efforts relied largely on major government initiatives to provide clean cooking, with around three quarters of those gaining access doing so through liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 17% from electricity, and 5% from other clean cooking solutions. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, the number of people without access has continued to grow, reaching around 1 billion today and affecting roughly four in every five households.
The lack of clean cooking harms health, economic development, education and the environment. It contributes to 815 000 premature deaths annually in Africa alone due to the health impacts of household air pollution. Across the continent, women and girls spend on average four hours a day gathering fuel and cooking, often foregoing education or
remunerated activities as a result. The lack of clean cooking is also linked to the loss of 1.3 million hectares of forest each year – diminishing a key resource for the continent. The combined impact of this and direct emissions from a lack of clean cooking access is equivalent to a quarter of Africa’s energy-related CO2 emissions today.
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