Co-benefits to health of climate change mitigation: Household energy in developing countries
- Abstract
New technologies for more efficient household fuel use in developing regions hold some of the greatest potential co-benefits for both health and climate in the household energy sector because they greatly reduce emissions. These interventions offer other co-benefits to health, gender equity and sustainable development for billions of people. The WHO review brings together initial evidence of such co- benefits to identify strategies and measures worthy of further systematic exploration.
- Resource Type
- Report
- Author
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Resource URL
- http://www.who.int/hia/hgebrief_henergy.pdf?ua=1
- Date
- 2011
- Series Title
- Health in the green economy
- Institution
- Public Health & Environment Department, Health Security & Environment Cluster, World Health Organization
- Organization Type
- Other gov
- Solutions
- Biomass Low carbon fuels/biofuels
- Region
- International
- Other
- Co-benefits/co-harms