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At Anil Agarwal Dialogue , experts discuss strategies to tackle black carbon and its impacts
CSE iterates that cutting black carbon emissions will improve health and slow down climate change
- Dialogue proposes to address three failures: no reduction in CO2 emissions, Delhi’s rising air pollution and lack of access to clean cooking fuel
- About million pre-mature deaths caused by household air pollution
- Early deaths attributed to air pollution are second highest
- Need to differentiate between survival emissions (caused by rural poor’s cookstoves) and luxury emissions (caused by diesel vehicle users in cities) of the rich
- Need to cut diesel-powered cars in cities to tackle urban pollution
- Provision of clean fuel for rural India equally necessary
NEW DELHI, March 11, India needs to cut down its black carbon emissions for a “co-benefit” agenda, said speakers at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue , organised by Centre for Scie
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Cook stoves: the politics and the quest for solutions
What should be the approach to deal with local health impacts of cooking fuels that would also inform India's national and global policy?
Author: Sunita Narain
Chulhas – cookstoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs and leaves to cook meals – are today at the centre of failing international action. Women are breathing toxic emissions from stoves and these emissions are also adding to the climate change burden of the world. The Global Burden of Disease Report established that indoor air pollution from cookstoves is a primary cause of disease and death in South Asia. As many as million pre-mature deaths and million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) – measure of years lost due to ill-health, disability or early death – are related to exposure to biomass burning in poorly ventilated homes.
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'India should lead way in clean cook stoves'
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Addressing the challenge of Climate Change – How poor nations can help to save the world – Anil Agarwal
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