The author of the policy brief is Stockholm Environment Institute. The focus of the brief is household energy in developing countries. The purpose of the policy brief is to influence the government and community on choice of fuel consumption in developing country.

The Generic Content of the Policy brief include key findings, the impact of household energy choice on health, environmental impact and co- benefits potential, household energy choice and its links to policy and the millennium development Goals and recommendations. The institution use key finding, problem elaboration and recommendation approach to transmit the policy brief for the concerned stakeholders.

The key findings of the policy brief include; three billion people depend on traditional sold fuels, exposure to indoor smoke doubles the rise of pneumonia and acute lower respiratory infections in children and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adult, the daily demand for cooking fuel is estimated to be more than 2 million tonnes of biomass, black carbon emissions from the burning of traditional biomass for household cooking is responsible for an estimated 8 per cent of global GHG emission and switching to cleaner fuels and more efficient stoves for cooking would lead to significant health and environmental benefits. Research outputs discover that household energy choice is a major public health issues for the world’s poorest, impacts environment because of its GHG emission and it’s have a great impact to achieve the goals of Millennium Development Goal(MDG). The policy brief identifies that the success of introducing new form of household energy consumption will greatly depend on the level of acceptance of the new technologies by the local community.

The policy brief also give three recommendations for ways to improve household energy consumption. This include more efficient cooking technologies which replace traditional biomass should be promoted, to measure the health and climate impact and co- benefit of household energy interventions more researches is needed,  policy makers and stove programme designers should analyses consumer choice to identify the markets for improved stoves.