Frontiers in the Environment

Talk by Ellison Carter, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute on the Environment

Household air pollution from cooking and heating with wood and coal impacts nearly half the world’s population and is the leading environmental health risk factor. Despite the compelling need for household energy interventions that reduce HAP, the majority of household energy intervention programs have been unsuccessful in reducing air pollution exposures at a population level due to a combination of cost, technology development and behavioral factors. Carter will discuss her current work developing clean energy intervention technology and air pollution measurement systems to assess the intervention’s efficacy in rural Chinese homes. The project will provide critical new information for large-scale implementation programs that seek to deliver sufficiently clean household air to families and mitigate negative impacts of solid fuel use on climate change.