LONDON (Reuters) – The health of about 2 billion of the world’s poor is being damaged because they lack access to clean energy, like electricity, and face exposure to smoke from open fires, scientists said on Thursday.
Dangerous levels of indoor air pollutants from badly ventilated cooking fires are a common hazard, while lack of electricity deprives many of the benefits of refrigeration.
Paul Wilkinson of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the world’s richest populations use up to 20 times more energy per head than those from poor countries, posing a challenge to improve energy supply without pollution.
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