World Bank urges better cookstoves in developing states to curb deaths

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World Bank urges better cookstoves in developing states to curb deaths

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/world-bank-urges-better-cookstoves-developing-states-curb-230448486.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cHNJpEIGgMdF48oBA2Dejg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-03T230448Z_1_CBRE9A21S4400_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-TOURISM-VILLAGE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A woman cooks &quot;roti&quot; on an earthen stove inside a farm house near the Jhajjar district" align="left" title="A woman cooks &quot;roti&quot; on an earthen stove inside a farm house near the Jhajjar district" border="0" /></a>By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - (Release at 2301 GMT, Sunday Nov 3) Simple measures to reduce pollution from cooking stoves in developing nations could save a million lives a year and help slow global warming, a World Bank study showed on Monday. The study called for tough limits on pollution from methane and soot, which can settle on snow and ice and hasten a thaw by darkening the surface, in everything from cooking and heating to mining and flaring by the oil and gas industry. &quot;The damage from indoor cooking smoke alone is horrendous - every year, four million people die from exposure to the smoke,&quot; World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement of the study &quot;on Thin Ice: How Cutting Pollution can Slow Warming and Save Lives.&quot; Many people in developing nations cook on open fires with wood or coal, exposing people - mainly women and children - to fumes that cause everything from respiratory problems to heart disease. &quot;If more clean cook-stoves - stoves that use less or cleaner fuel - would be used it could save one million lives,&quot; the report said of the annual benefits.</p><br clear="all"/>

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