Solar cooking can deliver meaningful benefits for the cryosphere by reducing emissions that accelerate snow and ice melt. Around 2.1 billion people rely on fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene for daily cooking. These fuels emit carbon dioxide as well as black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants that travel through the atmosphere and deposit on snow and ice, which increases melting from glaciers and mountain snowpack. Speakers highlighted how expanding solar cooking programs can simultaneously advance public health, household economic stability and women’s empowerment while protecting vulnerable mountain and polar environments. Speakers included Keith Wingeard, Solar Cookers International (SCI); Dr. Allassane Drabo, Africa Region for ChildFund International; Sara Rosen, SCI; Alejandra Tartara, Eco Gaia.
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