With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. With awareness raising, improving technologies and the development of commercial markets amongst the forums key priorities, energy and health leaders not only reported on breakthrough achievements but also committed to challenging, future goals to reach the next stage of reducing indoor air pollution, a problem that currently affects three billion people in developing countries. With its own global IAP programme, Shell Foundation director Kurt Hoffman was one of the keynote speakers on the opening day of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) forum. He urged delegates to continue to work together effectively, stressing that no single organisation can tackle a problem that impacts half the worlds population. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP. The conference, held over three days in Bangalore, highlighted the alarming statistic that in India alone, almost half a million people a year die prematurely due to breathing smoke from cooking and heating with biomass fuels such as dung, wood, crop residues and coal. Despite such a worrying death toll, there is little awareness of IAP throughout the sub-Continent. In a bid to counter that situation, the Foundation helped the PCIA organise a media briefing in New Delhi the day before the conference opened, impressing on TV, radio, and newspaper journalists that IAP was the fourth greatest health risk in the worlds poorest countries. With more than 130 million households in India still using solid fuel for cooking, deaths caused by indoor smoke will continue to rise until more families turn to improved and more efficient cooking stoves, the media was told. In Bangalore, the ethos of the event was one of learning and sharing. Shell Foundations Breathing Space team shared the charitys own strategy and solutions and learned from partners around the world how best the global problem of IAP was being tackled. Explaining how important it was to maintain effective networks with others involved in raising the visibility of indoor air pollution as a significant health risk, Programme Officer Sanyogita Seksaria said the event had been of enormous use to her and colleagues, not least to get a feeling of the global commitment that existed to beat IAP.