Along with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and other Founding Partners, Secretary Clinton will outline partnership and financial commitments of the Alliance. Led by the United Nations Foundation, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will address one of the greatest threats facing developing countries and their populations— the extraordinarily high exposures to toxic smoke from indoor fires and inefficient cookstoves which lead to nearly 2 million deaths each year, with young children and adult women suffering the vast majority of this disease burden.
The announcement will occur at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting on September 21 at approximately 1:00 p.m.
Secretary Clinton's speech will be streamed live on www.state.gov and http://live.clintonglobalinitiative.org.
Photo Courtesy: US Department of State
Also Read a report in The New York Times: Developing Nations to Get Clean-Burning Stoves
