Smoke - the killer in the kitchen
News and events
Practical Action at the Commission on Sustainable Development
The 15th session of the United Nation's Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), taking place from 30 April to 11 May 2007, offers an important opportunity to mobilise international action to tackle the killer in the kitchen. Practical Action is organising side events on Healthy and Affordable Household Energy and Financing energy Access for the Poor.
Global Leadership Award
Practical Action has been awarded the Global Leadership Award by the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) for its vision, initiative and action to achieve the mission of partnership in improving people's health, livelihood and quality of life by reducing Indoor Air Pollution.
Campaign postcards delivered to Hilary Benn
In February 2007 Practical Action delivered over 1,500 campaign postcards to the International Development Secretary, calling for the British government to mobilise international action to tackle indoor smoke. Hilary Benn has welcomed the campaign.
New Early Day Motion on indoor air pollution in developing countries December 2006
Susan Kramer MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in support of Practical Action's work and calling for action from the government to find a global solution to indoor air pollution.
Reducing smoke: the killer in the kitchen
23 June 2006, World Urban Forum, Vancouver
A lively, interactive debate to explore whether international funding should be used to subsidise the price of technologies to tackle indoor smoke.
Household energy, indoor air pollution and health at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
New York, 11 May 2006
On 11 May, WHO, GTZ, the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Practical Action and the US Environmental Protection Agency organised a joint side event to make the case for the urgent need to improve access to household energy among the poor by drawing attention to the severe risks of using biomass and coal for cooking and heating in developing countries.
South Asia Regional Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution, Health and Household Energy
27-28 February 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal
Practical Action Nepal organised a workshop to exchange information on successful technologies, model and challenges in reducing indoor smoke and associated health burden in South Asia.
Adam Hart-Davis sees the scale of the problem
In January 2006, writer and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis visited Kenya to see how smoke in the kitchen affects women and children, and some of the simple solutions that Practical Action is working with communities to develop. View Adam's video report on what he saw in Kenya on green.tv
Smoke, health and household energy - volume 1: Participatory methods for design, installation, monitoring and assessment of smoke alleviation technologies
This publication describes a UK-Government funded research project done by Practical Action in three very different communities.
Smoke in the Kitchen - House of Commons
House of Commons, Westminster, UK, 23 February 2005
Every year indoor air pollution kills five times as many people as died in the south Asian tsunami, according to the UK development minister Hilary Benn, speaking at Practical Action's Smoke in the Kitchen reception at the House of Commons.
WHO/UNDP statement
To mark World Rural Women's Day 2004, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) issued a global statement calling for the world to wake up to this "killer in the kitchen".
Practical Action publish report: Smoke - the Killer in the Kitchen
Smoke in the home from cooking on wood, dung and crop waste kills nearly one million children a year. In its report, Smoke: the Killer in the Kitchen, Practical Action (formerly ITDG) calls for global action to save the lives of 1.6 million men, women and children lost each year to lethal levels of household smoke.
