Deploy Clean Cooking

Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: January 11, 2023

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Synopsis

This article identifies using clean stoves as a critical solution to limit global warming and fight climate change, while potentially improving the lives of women and girls.
The article includes an overview of the harm of cooking with polluting fuels, the feasibility of switching to clean cooking technologies, and a more in-depth look at the potential of these technologies to reduce emissions and improve health and equity.

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Subjects: Health, Engineering

Authors: Project Drawdown

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

The article provides an introduction, methodology, and results in determining the potential impact of clean stoves as a climate solution.
This resource also provides ways that individuals can contribute to the solution.

Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with terms like CO2 equivalent, emissions, energy efficiency, and pollution.
Consider showing students this interactive solution explorer to see the rankings of solutions on the Drawdown website.

Differentiation & Implementation

Some of the language in the article may be advanced for younger students. It may be helpful to read the article as a class or in groups, or engage in a class discussion about each section of the article to ensure students' comprehension.
This resource can also be used in health classes during lessons about the impacts of air pollution and black carbon on respiratory health or in math and science classes during lessons about developing equations and data analysis.
The article touches on the disproportionate impact that gathering the wood for polluting stoves and fuels and breathing in the pollutants while cooking can have on women and girls, which the teacher can expand upon. Challenge students to think about household labor and women, women's health, girl's access to education, and where in the world women are most likely to be impacted.
Social studies classes can discuss this win-win climate solution when discussing climate justice and gender equity. Teachers can also take this opportunity to connect to UN Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced Inequalities.

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Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.

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