Clean Cook Stoves for combating air pollution problems in S. Asia: Project Surya

As much as 60% of the ambient air pollution in S. Asia is due to cooking and heating with solid biomass fuels. Project Surya has started pilot projects in India and Kenya to mitigate emissions of air pollutants (PM; Soot & CO) with improved cook stoves. We will describe nearly two years of indoor and outdoor data with traditional and improved cook stoves that helps us address issues related to scalability and sustainability of the improved stoves. The co-benefits of mitigating the pollution from cook stoves for regional climate will be assessed with the data that been collected to date.