Air pollution-related health and climate benefits of clean cookstove programs in Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan C Anenberg (0000-0002-9668-603X, George Washington University, corresponding author), Daven K Henze (0000-0001-6431-4963, University of Colorado Boulder), Forrest Lacey (0000-0003-4578-8375, University of Colorado Boulder), Ans Irfan (0000-0002-4404-5812, George Washington University), Patrick L Kinney (0000-0003-2801-1003, Boston University), Patrick Kinney, Gary Kleiman (0000-0002-1690-1431, World Bank), Ajay Pillarisetti (0000-0003-0518-2934, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 025006-025006 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5557 |
| OpenAlex | W2584179874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 63 |
Approximately 95% of households in Mozambique burn solid fuels for cooking, contributing to elevated indoor and outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations and subsequent health and climate impacts. Little is known about the potential health and climate benefits of various approaches for expanding the use of cleaner stoves and fuels in Mozambique. We use state-of-thescience methods to provide a first-order estimation of potential air pollution-related health and climate benefits of four illustrative scenarios in which traditional cooking fires and stoves are displaced by cleaner and more efficient technologies. For rural areas, we find that a 10% increase in the number of households using forced draft wood-burning stoves could achieve >2.5 times more health benefits from reduced PM2.5 exposure (200 avoided premature deaths and 14 000 avoided disability adjusted life years, DALYs, over a three-year project lifetime) compared to natural draft stoves in the same households, assuming 70% of households use the new technology for both cases. Expanding use of LPG stoves to 10% of households in five major cities is estimated to avoid 160 premature deaths and 11 000 DALYs from reduced PM2.5 exposure for a three-year intervention, assuming 60% of households use the new stove. Advanced charcoal stoves would achieve ∽80% of the PM2.5-related health benefits of LPG stoves. Approximately 2%–5% additional health benefits would result from reduced ambient PM2.5, depending on the scenario. Although climate impacts are uncertain, we estimate that all scenarios would reduce expected climate change-related temperature increases from continued solid fuel use by 4%–6% over the next century. All results are based on an assumed adjustment factor of 0.8 to convert from laboratory-based emission reduction measurements to exposure reductions, which could be optimistic in reality given potential for continued use of the traditional stove. We conclude that cleaner cooking stoves in Mozambique can achieve health and climate benefits, though both are uncertain and local information about baseline and intervention PM2.5 exposure levels are needed
Air pollution · Climate change · Environmental health · Environmental protection · Health benefits · Indoor air quality · Particulates · Stove · Waste management · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science · Medicine · Environmental Engineering
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| Citations per year | 0.89 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |