Tracking Access to Nonsolid Fuel for Cooking

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2012 about 4.3 million deaths occurred because of exposure to household air pollution caused by smoke from the incomplete combustion of fuels such as wood, coal, and kerosene. Inefficient energy use in the home also poses substantial risks to safety, causing burns and injuries across the developing world. To support the achievement of these goals, a starting point must be set, indicators developed, and a framework established to track those indicators until 2030. The World Bank and International Energy Agency have led a consortium of 15 international agencies to produce data on access to nonsolid fuel for the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework. Launched in 2013, the framework defines access to modern cooking solutions is as the use of nonsolid fuels for the primary method of cooking. Nonsolid fuels include (i) liquid fuels (for example, kerosene, ethanol, or other biofuels), (ii) gaseous fuels (such as natural gas, LPG, and biogas), and (iii) electricity. These are in contrast to solid fuels such as (i) traditional biomass (wood, charcoal, agricultural residues, and dung), (ii) processed biomass (pellets, briquettes); and (iii) other solid fuels (such as coal and lignite).

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna, Portale, Elisa, Adair-Rohani, Heather, Bonjour, Sophie
Format:	Brief biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014-05-15
Subjects:	access to electricity, access to modern energy, agricultural residues, air, air pollution, biogas, Black carbon, BOTTOM LINE, briquettes, burning coal, Carbon, Carbon dioxide, climate, climate change, co, CO2, coal, combustion, combustion of fuels, distribution of energy, electricity, emissions, energy consumers, energy consumption, energy development, energy efficiency, energy generation, energy industries, energy mix, Energy Outlook, energy policies, energy systems, energy use, ethanol, fossil, fossil fuels, Fuel, fuel use, gas networks, gaseous fuels, Generation capacity, greenhouse, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse Gas Inventory, greenhouse gases, health risk, heat, heat generation, household cooking, Household Energy, income, International Energy Agency, kerosene, liquid fuels, Living Standards, methane, natural gas, oil, pellets, petroleum, Ph, pipeline, primary fuel, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standard, renewable sources, smoke, solid fuels, source of energy, Sustainable Energy, traditional biomass, transmission system, urban areas, urban population, utilities, waste, wind, wind power, wind power capacity, wind sites, World Energy, World Energy Outlook,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18414
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