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→7. Improved clean cookstoves: Adding the bit about asthma and gas cookers
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Cooking methods that use fossil fuels and wood "produce 2 to 5 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. They stem from two sources. First, unsustainable harvesting of fuel drives deforestation and forest degradation. Second, burning fuels during the cooking process emits carbon dioxide, methane, and pollutants from incomplete combustion that include carbon monoxide and black carbon." | Cooking methods that use fossil fuels and wood "produce 2 to 5 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. They stem from two sources. First, unsustainable harvesting of fuel drives deforestation and forest degradation. Second, burning fuels during the cooking process emits carbon dioxide, methane, and pollutants from incomplete combustion that include carbon monoxide and black carbon." | ||
Gas cookers increase risk of childhood asthma and worsen existing asthma.<ref>''[https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/42/6/1724/737113 Meta-analysis of the effects of indoor nitrogen dioxide and gas cooking on asthma and wheeze in children]'', International Journal of Epidemiology, 20 August 2013. | |||
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