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WHO Publishes New Global Data on the Use of Clean and Polluting Fuels for Cooking by Fuel Type
January 21, 2022
GENEVA, Switzerland, Jan. 21 -- The United Nations World Health Organization issued the following news release:

One third of the global population or 2.6 billion people worldwide still remain without access to clean cooking. The use of inefficient, polluting fuels and technologies is a health risk and a major contributor to diseases and deaths, particularly for women and children in low- and middle-income countries. It makes cooking with polluting fuels one of the largest environmen . . .

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