IPCC's Pachauri: 2.5 million people in India losing their lives due to air pollution

From this article:

Dr Pachauri noted that India was losing 10 per cent of its GDP on account of air pollution and degradation of natural resources. He observed that over 2.5 million people in India were losing their lives due to air pollution. He urged industry to promote water conservation, energy management and healthcare awareness for the masses through CSR initiatives.

From this "Times of India" article, entitled "'Indoor' air pollution is the biggest killer":

NEW DELHI: Indoor air pollution (IAP), resulting from chulhas burning wood, coal and animal dung as fuel, is claiming a shocking 500,000 lives in India every year, most of whom are women and children.

According to the World Health Organisation, India accounts for 80% of the 600,000 premature deaths that occur in south-east Asia annually due to exposure to IAP. Nearly 70% of rural households in India don't even have ventilation.

What's worse, WHO is finding it tough to get donors to fund programmes that seek to raise awareness of this unknown menace, besides providing smokeless chulhas or liquid cooking gas cylinders to the rural poor.

The WHO has estimated that globally, it would need $650 million to change the way most of the world cooks. However, it has managed to raise just 10% of the necessary funds.

Speaking to TOI, Alex Hildebrand, WHO's environmental health adviser for South Asia, said, "Donors don't find indoor air pollution a sexy enough cause to donate money, even though more than 1.6 million people die every year from the effects of breathing poisonous smoke.

Can someone explain why carbon dioxide "pollution" gets a colossal amount of emphasis from the UN and Pachauri, when the death toll from actual pollution is [reportedly] so high?

Is this partially because it's so much harder to extort money from the US for fighting real indoor pollution than for fighting phantom outdoor pollution?