Sentences with phrase «solid household fuels»

Those solid household fuels produce health - damaging indoor pollution that contributes to about four million premature deaths a year, most of them women and children.

• Twenty high - impact countries in Asia and Africa account for about two - thirds of all people without electricity access and three - quarters of those using solid household fuels.

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In low and middle - income countries, solid fuels such as dung, charcoal or wood are used for cooking and are common in many households.

Over 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels.

These harmful gases are emitted into your home's air from certain liquids and solids, including conventional household cleaning supplies, cosmetics, paints, varnishes, waxes disinfectants, fuels and hobby products.

Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. has successfully demonstrated the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW)-- household garbage — into jet and diesel fuels.

Background: Globally, 2.8 billion people rely on household solid fuels.

Black carbon (BC) emissions from household cookstoves consuming solid fuel produce approximately 25 percent of total anthropogenic BC emissions.

As per the World Health Organization Comparative Risk Study, approximately 400,000 women and children die every year in India due to exposure to smoke from household use of solid fuels.

«Solutions exist with sustainable transport in cities, solid waste management, access to clean household fuels and cook - stoves, as well as renewable energies and industrial emissions reductions.»

3.8 million people a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels and kerosene for cooking.

«Solid economic growth, along with ongoing quarterly job gains and rising household formations, are fueling housing demand,» said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz.