Clean Cooking: What’s the Big Deal?

Take the quiz and help raise awareness about clean cooking solutions.

What to know:

• Every day, millions of people cook with wood or charcoal, risking their health, safety, and the environment.
• Switching to clean cooking could save 2.5M lives, protect forests, and unlock time for women and girls.
• Learn what clean cooking means, why it matters, and how you can help protect lives, forests and the climate.

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, cooking over open fires or with charcoal is still a daily reality — one that claims over 600,000 lives each year due to indoor air pollution. It’s also a major driver of deforestation and carbon emissions, and a hidden barrier to education and opportunity, especially for women and girls who spend hours gathering fuel.

Clean cooking solutions, such as electric stoves, LPG, or cleaner biofuels, offer a safer, faster, and more sustainable path forward.

As part of its 2025 campaign, Global Citizen is working to expand clean energy access for 1 million people across Africa, with an emphasis on solutions that protect both people and the planet. Clean cooking is a critical part of that transformation — supporting better health, gender equity, and climate resilience all at once.

Take the quiz and explore how energy for cooking can unlock powerful change.