The public in the UK and other developed countries are rightly concerned about the health impacts of air pollution, and our journalists are justified in keeping this topic on the agenda. Our media could so easily use this concern to highlight the massive impact on health, development, and the environment of energy poverty and air pollution from the continuing widespread reliance on solid fuels in the developing world, but are generally failing to do so. This topic, and the key policies and investment required to bring about a rapid, just and effective clean energy transition, need the attention and scrutiny of our best journalists, in the UK, other developed countries, and in the developing nations.
This new documentary film produced by the CLEAN-Air (Africa) research team at the University of Liverpool tells the story of this major health and environmental challenge through the accounts of cooks, students, the head teachers of two schools, and those leading an exciting new initiative aiming to convert school kitchens from use to wood fuel to clean fuels such as LPG right across East Africa.
Air pollution is a critical issue for health, climate and development globally, and especially so for Africa. To date, facilities for accurate measurement of air pollution in Africa have been limited. This is now set to change with the opening of a new ‘State-of-the-Art’ air pollution laboratory at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), in Nairobi.
A short report on a WHO hosted stakeholder workshop held in Nairobi 15-16 November 2023 that was designed to build innovative partnerships for securing universal access to clean, safe and efficient household energy in Kenya
Before Coronavirus struck in March 2020, Kenya was pioneering a radical new approach to reducing deaths from household air pollution by training community health workers to inform people about the dangers of traditional polluting fuels and encourage them to switch to...
Cooking should not kill – but it does. It is a sobering fact that more than two million children and adults die prematurely every year from air pollution in their homes. This unhealthy air results from cooking with wood, charcoal, animal dung and kerosene. Over...
