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IEA (2023), A Vision for Clean Cooking Access for All, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/reports/a-vision-for-clean-cooking-access-for-all, Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Graphic: Differences in clean cooking technologies
Cooking stoves assessment of performance against key metrics
Type of stove | Health |
Gender |
Environment |
Upfront cost |
Fuel cost |
Disruption risk |
Scalability |
Efficiency & cook time |
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Basic | Gathered biomass | |||||||||
Charcoal and fuelwood | ||||||||||
Coal | ||||||||||
Kerosene | ||||||||||
Traditional | Improved biomass cookstoves | |||||||||
Modern | LPG | |||||||||
Natural gas | ||||||||||
Electric cooking | ||||||||||
Biogas | ||||||||||
Ethanol |
Notes: Health refers to the impacts of inhalation of harmful criterion pollutants, such as carbon monoxide and PM2.5 caused by the incomplete combustion of fuels. Gender refers to the ways certain cooking means negatively impact women, primarily considering health, safety (e.g., exposing them to gender-based violence), and social (e.g. time for gathering biomass). Environment refers to impacts to climate through the emissions of GHG in combustion and to deforestation caused by the unsustainable harvesting of biomass. Upfront cost refers to the price of cooking and fuel delivery equipment. Fuel and operation cost refers to the cost incurred in the utilisation of the stoves for cooking, which includes purchases of fuels and maintenance of stoves. This does not factor in minimum volumes for retail fuels that could present upfront cost hurdles. Disruption risk refers to the risk of losing the physical availability or the affordability caused by high price spikes of the energy source used for cooking. Scalability refers to the techno-economic feasibility of deploying the technology in new regions. Efficiency and cooking time refers to the energy efficiency of stoves, which is the key contributor to the time required to cook a meal, plus stove preparation time.