Clean fuel

Clean fuels used for transport can be biofuels that have lower greenhouse gas emission rates, such as ethanol or biodiesel biogas.

Clean fuels used for cooking and lighting can include biogas, LPG, electricity, ethanol, natural gas.

[4][5] There remain some 2.8 billion people who rely on unclean, polluting fuels and technologies for cooking.

This includes traditional stoves paired with charcoal, coal, crop waste, dung, kerosene and wood.

[2]: 45  The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution from cooking causes 3.8 million deaths annually.

World map for Indicator 7.1.2 in 2016 - Share of the population with access to clean fuels for cooking [ 1 ]