# Clean Cooking — The Hidden Energy Crisis Killing 3 Million per Year

**URL:** https://thecodex.expert/energy/cooking/
**Session:** 29 | **Date:** 2026-05-05

## Summary

2.3 billion cook on dirty fuels (WHO 2023). 3.2M deaths/year from household air pollution. Equivalent ~400 cigarettes/day smoke for women. Solutions: LPG (India PMUY 96M connections, ~40% refill challenge, MoPNG data), ICS improved cookstoves (80M sales, BURN Jikokoa Nairobi 1.28S 36.82E), biogas (Nepal 400,000 digesters 27.70N 85.31E, China 50M former). Clean Cooking Alliance. Energy stacking common. Clean Cooking Fund (World Bank $500M). Why under-resourced: no carbon/VC appeal, affects women/children in Africa/Asia (low political voice), subsidy-dependent model, health co-benefits not counted in climate finance. Global clean cooking investment ~$130M/yr vs billions needed (IEA). India GOBAR-Dhan biogas. Sources: WHO 2023, IEA WEO 2024, Clean Cooking Alliance 2024, MoPNG 2023.