Worldwide Challenge

There are 1.6 billion people without electricity. Nearly all would benefit from our safe cooking technologies.

50% of the world’s population relies on wood, animal dung, crop residues and coal to cook and heat their homes using simple stoves with very incomplete combustion, according to the World Health Organization.

Using poorly vented or unvented stoves results in many toxic pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, sulfur oxides, formaldehyde, carcinogenic polycyclic organic matter, small particulate matter, and elemental residues.

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Health Risks

The World Health Organization and others have documented significant health risks with indoor air pollution, particularly for women and children, including:

• Chronic obstructive lung disease
• Acute respiratory infections
• Low birth weight
• Increased infant and perinatal mortality
• Pulmonary tuberculosis
• Nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer
• Cataract formation
• Lung cancer

Urgency for Improved Air Quality

Smoking is a known cause for lung cancer. Yet two-thirds of all lung cancers reported in China, India and Mexico were in non-smoking women who cook with open coal stoves.

Pollution has made cancer the leading cause of death in China, according to the Ministry of Health.

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