I also thank Prime Minister Storey for his comments about the critical nature of clean cooking fuels. I myself have viewed it for decades as the world's largest solvable problem. Two to 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, [are due to lack of clean cooking fuels]. For people, the 2 billion people, roughly half of them in Africa, half of them spread out in other continents of the world that are still cooking the way all of our ancestors did, using traditional fuels. (03:57–04:18)
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