Why clean cooking?

Clean cooking is one of the most immediate and cost-effective solutions available to address the triple-planetary crisis of climate change, nature-loss, and pollution but is critically underfunded; global ambition and partnerships are needed to scale up climate finance to accelerate clean energy cooking solutions to achieve climate and sustainable development goals.

Worldwide, 2.4 billion people lack access to clean cooking, which results in millions of premature deaths, large quantities of climate pollutants, unabated forest degradation in global biodiversity hot spots, and a continuous burden on women and children typically charged with collecting fuel wood.

Given this enormous impact, it is disgraceful that clean cooking solutions attract such a miniscule fraction of international climate finance and private capital. The current level of funding and investment in the clean cooking sector has not matched the global magnitude of the challenge, hovering in the tens of millions of dollars, and is highly concentrated in a small number of countries, technologies, and ventures. If the funding and financing trend continues along current trends, 2.1 billion people will still be without access in 2030 and it will take more than 1,000 years to achieve universal access to clean cooking.

However, we have the knowledge and technologies to provide affordable clean cooking to every person in the world—if governments, investors, and the private sector make it a priority.

The Clean Cooking Breakthrough is a critical mechanism that scales ambition and action globally and drives universal access to clean cooking through innovative finance.

                                               Source: Unfccc