Respiratory diseases plague Kenya as people cook with firewood to save money

Experts say cooking with cheap biomass like firewood is a big part of the problem.

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00:30It's not only cobalt monoxide, actually one of the causes,

00:32the biggest problem is the particulate matters.

00:35The particulate matters, usually the one we call PM2.5.

00:38It's the one that is associated with pneumonias,

00:40it's the one that's associated with asthma and so on.

00:43And it is usually brought around by fuel for cooking.

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00:58If we want to deliver a truly clean, truly efficient solution

01:02to users across Africa, it needs to be affordable for them.

01:06Where we've seen a lot of impact on that today

01:10is with carbon and climate financing,

01:13where carbon financing is able to come in

01:15and help us subsidize the cost of the stove to the end user.

01:19So we can bring a stove down from say $50 cost

01:23to just a few dollars of cost,

01:25in some cases a 90-95% reduction in cost.

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