Reducing smoke: the killer in the kitchen

World Urban Forum

Friday 23 June 2006, 8.30-10.30am
Room MR14, Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre

Smoke in the home from cooking fires leads to more than one and a half million premature deaths each year - and it is a problem that particularly affects the poor living on the fringes of cities in informal settlements.

Join us for a lively, interactive debate to explore whether international funding should be used to subsidise the price of technologies to tackle indoor smoke.

The motion - "This house believes that direct subsidies for improved technologies to reduce the 1.5 million deaths caused by indoor air pollution are always misguided."

• Chair - Professor Michael Brauer, The University of British Colombia.  
• Speaking in favour - Don O'Neal, HELPS International
• Speaking against - Keith Openshaw, Energy Consultant

Case studies from Sudan and Nepal will be presented and the audience will have an opportunity to question the panel and cast their votes. For more information visit Practical Action / ITDG Publishing stand 1217 in the WUF Exhibition.