The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private partnership hosted by the UN Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. The Alliance’s 100 by ‘20 goal calls for 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020. We are working with a strong network of public, private and non-profit partners to accelerate the production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in developing countries. In Nepal, traditional gender roles mean that women spend most of their time cooking on firewood-burning cookstoves, as well as caring for their children, putting both groups at high risk. However, with firewood widely available at no cost, and IAP not recognised as a significant risk to health by the majority of the rural population, poor air quality in homes continues to kill up to 4 million people worldwide each year.
