September 15, 2011
Bridges (Center for Occupational and Environmental Health)
Kirk Smith Brings Global Attention to the Effects of Solid Fuel Use on Health and Climate Change
In the mid 1980s household biomass fuel use was identified by the United Nations Environment Programme as the most important global occupational health issue. In 1992 the World Bank named it one of the four most important environmental hazards in the world. Today, despite continuing evidence of damaging effects on health and climate change, three billion people ― almost half of the world's population ― rely on solid fuels for cooking and heating....
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