Daily lifeLPG price rise sends Bangladesh families back to firewood stoves
BERC set the 12 kg cylinder at Tk 2,060 for November, but shops are charging Tk 2,200 to 2,600, and households in several districts are burning wood instead.
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Opinion: a Tk 475 rise in two months makes cooking gas a household worry
In an Ajker Patrika column, Bappaditya Chowdhury Prabal writes that a 12-kg LPG cylinder has passed Tk 2,000 for the first time and argues that weak market oversight, as well as world prices, is squeezing consumers.
HealthDirty cooking fuels kill millions; IEA says $4bn a year would fix it in Africa
Household air pollution from cooking with wood, charcoal and kerosene causes an estimated 2.5 million premature deaths a year, and the IEA says Africa-wide clean cooking by 2030 needs only about $4 billion of investment annually.