The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which will be led by the United Nations Foundation, will work on facilitating cleaner cooking practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and black carbon that emit indoor fires and inefficient cookstoves and contribute to climate change.
As part of the alliance, EPA will work with partners across the globe in areas including stove testing and evaluation, stove design invention, and health and exposure assessments to create the market and distribution conditions necessary for 100 million households to adopt clean stoves by 2020.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said that EPA is proud to partner with the State Department, administration colleagues, the United Nations Foundation, and the other alliance partners to address one of the greatest environmental health risks facing the international community today.
“For more than eight years, EPA has been a leader in this field, and we will bring our expertise, our lessons learned and our global network to launching and leading the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves,” Jackson said.
