Columbia World Projects' Combating Household Air Pollution With Clean Energy project, which is active in Ghana, aims to increase the adoption of innovative clean cooking technologies that reduce dangerous household air pollution. The project takes a new, comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to help increase the uptake of these technologies, which, if widely adopted, can save lives.
The project's research team recently surveyed more than 7,500 households to assess demand for clean cooking technologies and to better understand barriers to their adoption. Early findings point to accessibility, transaction costs and financial constraints as the main potential barriers to the adoption of new, clean cooking technologies.
A new story by Amanda Kelley, published on the University of California, Santa Barbara’s emLab Blog, outlines the recent surveys, and the project team's ongoing work to incentivize transitions to clean cooking.