New Data on Cookstoves
The World Health Organization came out with new data yesterday on deaths related to air pollution. Below show the results for total air pollution and just indoor air pollution which is caused by cooking indoors without proper ventilation. See what ECOLIFE is doing to help combat this in Africa and Mexico.
This is what homes look like before and after a stove is built:
25 March 2014 | Geneva – In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died – one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives.
After analyzing the risk factors and taking into account revisions in methodology, WHO estimates indoor air pollution was linked to 4.3 million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves. The new estimate is explained by better information about pollution exposures among the estimated 2.9 billion people living in homes using wood, coal or dung as their primary cooking fuel, as well as evidence about air pollution’s role in the development of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and cancers. Read more here
SIGN UP ONLINE TO DONATE A STOVE EVERY MONTH AND BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION.