Uses of Clean Cooking Fuels and Forecasting the Rate of Population Access it in India with Reference to Global World

Abstract

People use solid fuels such as firewood, cow dung cakes, coal, and agricultural residues to prepare their milk and other purposes. The use of solid fuels for cook food in households with poor ventilation leads to household air pollution and harmful impacts on health. Energy is at the heart of many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering the expansion of access to electricity, the improvement of clean cooking fuels, and the reduction of wasteful energy subsidies to restrain deadly air pollution, which prematurely kills millions of people every year around the world. SDG 7 is about energy, where target 7.1 consists of two targets, i.e., 7.1.1 access to electricity and 7.1.2 access to clean cooking fuels. The present study is based on secondary data and a comparative analysis of the use of clean cooking fuels in India and around the world. It attempted to find out the differences in access to clean cooking fuels in India and the global world. It is found that India will achieve universal access to clean cooking fuels considering the rate at which the population accesses clean fuels, ignoring the other factors, but the global population will fail and only high-income countries will achieve this.