Every person needs food to sustain their lives. The vast majority of staple foods – about 95% – need cooking before they can be eaten, and most people cook at least 2-3 times per day. Clean cooking ...

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri chaired a Ministerial Roundtable on Clean Cooking on the second day of India Energy Week 2025. Shri Puri highlighted India’s ...

World leaders are gathering in Paris today to tackle one of the world’s biggest silent killers: dirty cooking fuels. In Africa, where four in five people cook over open fires and basic stoves, it is ...

Commonly used unclean cooking fuels like charcoal and kerosene continue to pose serious health risks to millions of people globally despite advancements in cooking technologies. According to the World ...

The global plastics crisis is widely understood as a problem of ocean pollution, landfill overflow and excessive single-use ...

Matthew Shupler is also a researcher in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems at the University of Liverpool. This research was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care ...

The government has commended the private sector’s role in supporting the initiative to transition from wood fuels to clean ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Giving everyone access to clean cooking is one of the most significant levers for meeting ...

Green hydrogen, biogas, and bioethanol are potential alternatives to natural gas, but their commercial viability and safety need further assessment. Critics argue that green hydrogen is inefficient ...

Could changing the way you cook help fight global warming? If you’ve considered this question and you live in a rich country, you’ve probably been thinking about whether to ditch your gas stove for an ...

The G20 elevated clean cooking as a standing item for discussion at the G20 summit held in November in South Africa.

Widespread use of traditional stoves has been cited as one of the significant contributors to climate change. These cooking appliances not only consume large amounts of fuel but also emit copious ...