[Stoves] Julia Roberts Joins the Alliance

Tom Miles tmiles at trmiles.com
Sun May 8 15:18:07 CDT 2011


For fundraising it's a good opportunity to get popular cooking experts like
Rachel Ray (USA) to join the effort.
http://www.rachaelray.com/

Tom 
 

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It is all very good news for stoves I think. Anything that can publicise
stove is good in my opinion. A famous actress as an ambassador is a very
powerful mean to raise awareness among the public.
The design of the www.cookingshouldntkill.org website is good, so is its
title. Some sentences are very very catchy: "Preparing a meal is one of the
most dangerous thing to do in the developing world". A funny thing: we can
only see faces on the home page, no improved stoves. It is more human.
Stoves are too impersonal, people need to put faces on solutions, they want
a nice story.

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WASHINGTON (May 6, 2011) ? The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves today
announced that Academy Award winning actor Julia Roberts will serve as
Global Ambassador, helping to bring attention to one of the most urgent
health problems facing women and families around the world: deadly smoke
from unsafe and inefficient cookstoves. 

Ms. Roberts first learned about the Alliance earlier this year while
interviewing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a special to be
broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Network. ?Extraordinary Moms,? presented and
executive produced by Ms. Roberts, airs Saturday, May 7 from 8?9:30 p.m.
(EDT/PDT). 

As Global Ambassador, Roberts will help raise awareness about the millions
of people who face health effects, accidents or death in developing
countries due to the reliance on traditional cookstoves and open fires that
use wood, coal, charcoal, or animal waste for fuel. 

?Nearly 2 million people around the world ? mostly women and children ? die
each year from an activity that many of us take for granted: cooking for our
families,? Roberts said. ?I am proud to stand with Secretary Clinton to work
to reduce the senseless and preventable deaths from unsafe cooking
conditions in developing countries and I look forward to contributing to the
important work of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.?

Launched in 2010 at the Clinton Global Initiative forum, the Alliance is a
public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation that seeks to mobilize
$250 million to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and combat
climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient
household cooking solutions.

Exposure to smoke from traditional stoves and open fires ? the primary means
of cooking and heating for 3 billion people in developing countries ? causes
nearly 2 million deaths annually, with women and young children affected
most. That is a life lost every 16 seconds. 

Cookstove smoke contributes to a range of chronic illnesses and acute health
impacts such as early childhood pneumonia, emphysema, lung cancer,
bronchitis, cardiovascular disease and low birth weight. The smoke from
inefficient stoves continues to contribute to global climate change by
producing harmful greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and
methane, and aero?sols such as black carbon. Reliance on biomass for cooking
and heating also increases pressure on local natural resources and forces
women and children to spend many hours each week collecting fire wood ? an
especially dangerous task for women and girls in refugee camps and conflict
zones.

?Today, nearly half the world?s population ? close to 3 billion people ?
will eat meals cooked over fires that use charcoal, wood, or even animal
waste for fuel,? said United Nations Foundation President Timothy E. Wirth.
?A year from now, 1.9 million of those people will be dead. Their death
certificates will cite pneumonia or lung cancer, but the underlying cause is
exposure to cooking smoke. Unsafe cooking conditions are the fifth greatest
threat to health in poor developing countries, yet nobody knows about it.
The needed resources cannot be mobilized to confront this crisis if the
world community doesn?t recognize it as such. Thanks to Julia Roberts, and
others who will follow her lead, that task just got a little easier.?

The Alliance?s goal is for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient
stoves and fuels by 2020, as a first step toward universal adoption. To
achieve its ?100 by 20? goal, the Alliance will promote stove standards;
spur innovative financing mechanisms; champion the cause across the donor
and development communities; develop indoor air quality guidelines; tackle
global tax and tariff barriers; field test clean stoves and fuels; and
develop a research agenda for key issues such as health, climate,
technology, and fuels.

The Alliance is a public-private partnership of more than 60 national
governments, UN agencies, private companies and non-governmental
organizations. 

Individuals who wish to join the movement for clean cookstoves are asked to
visit www.cookingshouldntkill.org. To learn more about the Alliance please
visit www.cleancookstoves.org. For more information contact John Anthony at
janthony at unfoundation.org or by phone at 202.778.1639.

 

http://cleancookstoves.org/blog/julia-roberts-joins-international-effort-pro
moting-clean-safe-and-efficient-cookstoves/

 

 

 

 


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