Floess, Emily, Grieshop, Andrew, Puzzolo, Elisa, Pope, Daniel, Leach, Nicholas, Smith, Christopher J., Gill-Wiehl, Annelise, Landesman, Katherine and Bailis, Robert 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4111-3760
(2023)
Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: Climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?
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Description
Nearly three billion people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) rely on polluting fuels, resulting in millions of avoidable deaths annually. Polluting fuels also emit short-lived climate forcers and greenhouse gases (GHGs). Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and grid-based electricity are scalable alternatives to polluting fuels but have raised climate and health concerns. Here, we compare emissions and climate impacts of a business-as-usual household cooking fuel trajectory to four large-scale transitions to gas and/or grid electricity in 77 LMICs. We account for upstream and end-use emissions from gas and electric cooking, assuming electrical grids evolve according to the 2022 World Energy Outlook’s “Stated Policies” Scenario. We input the emissions into a reduced-complexity climate model to estimate radiative forcing and temperature changes associated with each scenario. We find full transitions to LPG and/or electricity decrease emissions from both well-mixed GHG and short-lived climate forcers, resulting in a roughly 5 millikelvin global temperature reduction by 2040. Transitions to LPG and/or electricity also reduce annual emissions of PM2.5 by over 6 Mt (99%) by 2040, which would substantially lower health risks from Household Air Pollution.
| Keywords: | Dryad,clean cooking,Climate change,Climate modeling,energy transitions,life cycle analysis (LCA), |
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| Depositing User: | Data Catalogue Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2023 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 10:14 |
| DOI: | 10.5061/dryad.jq2bvq8d9 |
| Original Record Link: | https://datadryad.org/stash/share/QyesTwFaa64gsm2B5NRPIcukf56qVRF5n5VYnMbksUY |
| URI: | https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2375 |
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