The Millenium Development Goals, agreed to by every member country of the United Nations in 2000, call for the worldwide eradication of poverty and hunger, universal education, gender equality and huge improvements in health by 2015: two years ago!!
Can we do this without making the planet warmer?
Let's think big and imagine how we can confront the climate crisis in a way that is realistic about the other major problems that we face as a planet and as a species on it.
Clean Development >
Clean Cooking
Clean cooking could reduce pollution from burning wood or coal from regular stoves and protect human health if around 43% of families would change from traditional stoves to clean cooking. Billions of people around the world cook by polluting fuels which emit plumes of smoke that cause significant health impacts and premature deaths. Actions that need to be aggressively implemented are clean cooking technologies such as liquid petroleum gas, advanced biomass stoves, stoves that heat with solar energy, ect. Clean stoves reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing thermal efficiency or ventilation. Unfortunately for the economy, carbon dioxide equivalent emissions can be reduced by 31.38–76.34 gigatons at a net first cost of $136.64–302.76 billion. Clean cookstoves raise cooking operating costs by $1.96–4.38 trillion over the stove lifetime because many families collect fuel for free.