Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: an unquantified public health burden?

Sarah West

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124054

Close-up of a woman's hand holding a ladle, stirring a large metal pot filled with stew, set over a basic, open metal stove on a concrete floor.

Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: an unquantified public health burden?

Journal article / Carbon monoxide exposure poses a health risk to many urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa, with concentrations at their highest as evening meals are prepared.

24 May 2024 / About Pollution and Wellbeing

Young African woman cooks a meal over a wood-burning fire outside a brick house in Malawi

The quiet triumph of COP28: clean cooking

Feature / We speak with SEI US clean cooking expert Rob Bailis on how COP28 delivered for an issue that affects climate and development alike.

7 February 2024 / About Energy access, Finance, Forests, Household energy, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Man rides bicycle by a roadside stall of charcoal packed in sacks ready for sale to passing cars in Masindi, Uganda

A National Integrated Clean Cooking Strategy for Uganda (NICCS)

Project / The Ugandan government hopes to scale up cleaner cooking options to curb the health and climate damage caused by burning wood and charcoal.

2023 - 2025 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants and Sustainable lifestyles

Devising capabilities: service design for development interventions

Other publication / This thesis contributes new knowledge about how service design can be used to design development interventions in complex social-ecological contexts.

8 May 2023 / About Behaviour and choice and Climate services

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

13 March 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Side view of man sitting next to wood-burning stove in hut

Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?

Journal article / A novel analysis shows the global climate and health benefits of switching biomass cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries to electricity and LPG.

14 February 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Energy access, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Land use, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing

A tea kettle rests upon a stone bordering a wood-fired pit.

New research on the benefits of cleaner cooking: Q&A with Rob Bailis

Feature / SEI's Rob Bailis led research for a journal article featuring the first known analysis of the health and climate consequences of large-scale fuel transitions.

7 February 2023 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Land use, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants, Sustainable Development Goals, Sustainable lifestyles and Wellbeing

Aerial views of Sekatetang hamlet, Ribangkadeng village in Kalis, Kapuas Hulu District. West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 11 December 2017

Focali annual meeting 2022

Past event / The Focali annual meeting to be held in Gothenburg is the first in-person annual meeting since the memorable Focali 10-year anniversary meeting held in 2019.

01 December 2022 / About Climate policy, Climate services, Forests, Geopolitics, Land use, Participation and Public policy

Magdalena, a cook using biogas on a farm near Arusha, Tanzania.

Integrated assessment of air pollution and climate change for sustainable development in Africa

Other publication / African leaders can act quickly across five key areas to fight climate change, prevent air pollution, and protect human health. 

17 November 2022 / About Climate policy and Short lived climate pollutants