http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-20/shell-un-to-back-100-million-plan-for-clean-energy-cookstoves.html
Shell, UN to Back $100 Million Plan for Clean Energy Cookstoves
By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Peter S. Green - Sep 20, 2010 12:01 AM ET
The United Nations Foundation <http://www.unfoundation.org/> and Royal
Dutch Shell Plc's
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=RDSA:LN>Shell Foundation
<http://www.shellfoundation.org/index.php?p=home> plan to help organize
an effort to raise as much as $100 million over five years to provide
clean-burning cooking stoves to the world's poor, according to a
document outlining the plan.
To combat what they call a significant danger to women's health in the
developing world, the two foundations are seeking cooperation and
funding from other corporate, government, philanthropic and academic
entities and have received "strong expressions of interest from other
donors,"
"Smoke from cooking with primitive technologies in the developing world
is among the least-known public health catastrophes that humanity faces,"
"More people die each year from indoor air pollution from cooking than
from malaria, yet malaria receives much more attention and resources."
Smoke from poorly ventilated cookstoves contributes to the early deaths
of more than 2 million people a year, according to the UN Foundation.
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