Africa: Dirty Secret - Half of World Lacks Clean Cooking, At a Huge Cost

Barcelona — Failure to provide about 4 billion people with access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing $2.4 trillion a year.

A global failure to provide about 4 billion people - half the world's population - with access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing $2.4 trillion a year in damage to health, the climate and local economies, new figures show.

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