Chris Wright prioritises ending energy poverty, citing WHO indoor-smoke death toll

What was said

"there's about two billion people, a quarter of humanity that still cook their daily meals and heat their homes or huts, you know, burning wood. Could be agricultural waste or dung, but it's mostly wood indoors, just like all of our ancestors did, just like I I do when we go camping in the woods when you can build a wood fire."

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said about two billion people still cook and heat homes indoors using wood, agricultural waste or dung. He cited a World Health Organization estimate of two to three million deaths a year from indoor air pollution and said he launched a foundation offering small loans for cleaner cooking-fuel businesses.