Governments, companies, and international organizations have pledged $2.2 billion to improve access to cleaner cooking methods in Africa, aiming to reduce the hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by pollution from traditional cooking practices. The funding is crucial to scale clean cooking models and address the significant lack of access to clean cooking methods in Africa, where four out of five people lack such access.
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Governments, multilateral lenders and companies have pledged $2.2 billion in new financing to promote clean cooking in Africa and end a scourge that kills 600,000 people on the continent a decade https://t.co/x8etMab8fs
The models are in place to scale clean cooking in Africa. Now rich countries, the private sector, and international organizations must provide the necessary funding, argue @hlcchampions Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak and @EnergyAlliance’s @ngangaj. https://t.co/xg04BzQI7v
People & Profit - Moving Africa towards cleaner cooking methods: $2.2bn pledged at Paris summit ➡️ https://t.co/LwFcdXayGC https://t.co/fXOoTpzVhs
The International Energy Agency (#IEA) has announced that $2.2 billion had been pledged by governments and companies to improve access to less deadly and polluting cooking methods in #Africa. https://t.co/7oBtZmps5j
One out of three people worldwide lacks access to clean cooking methods. In Africa, it's four out of five people, totaling one billion individuals. Smoke from cooking with wood or charcoal causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths… https://t.co/38H22T3vSg
As pollution kills, Africa needs billions for climate-ready stoves https://t.co/M24X0Mqz7s https://t.co/okTHCa8Q41