Electric cooking on the rise in Laos, bringing benefits to air quality and climate

Traditional unimproved cooking methods using charcoal and wood biomass lead to household air pollution that impacts human and environmental health, disproportionately affecting women and children and contributing to the 8,000 deaths from household pollution-linked ailments in Laos annually.

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