Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

founding funders • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH

• German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

• Government of Norway

• Government of Peru

• Morgan Stanley

• Shell

• Shell Foundation

• Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV)

• United Nations Foundation

• U.S. Agency for International Development

• U.S. Department of Energy

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)

• U.S. Department of State

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

founding un partners • UN-Energy

• UN Environment Programme

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees

• UN Industrial Development Organization

• World Food Programme

• World Health Organization

Clean cookstoves save families fuel and money

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Girls spend as much as 20 hours per week collecting fuel

Photo Credit: Nigel Bruce/Practical Action

Stove companies create local jobs and improve livelihoods

Photo Credit: Stephen McGee

Exposure to cookstove smoke doubles a child’s risk of contracting pneumonia

Photo Credit: Michael Benanav

Nearly 3 billion people use polluting, inefficient stoves or open flames to cook their food

Photo Credit: GTZ