topics-n: Clean cooking
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ENERGIA supports the Africa-Europe Foundation Clean Cooking Manifesto
ENERGIA is pleased to support the Africa-Europe Foundation Clean Cooking Manifesto. This is a collective action agenda for achieving universal access to clean cooking by 2030. The Clean Cooking Manifesto, signed by over 65 high-level personalities and organisations from across Africa and Europe, urges governments, development partners and the private sector to adopt a…
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ENERGIA discusses gender inclusion during Ministerial-level Thematic Forums
UN Member States, NGOs, civil society, youth organizations and practitioners gathered last week for the Ministerial-level Thematic Forums, to discuss actions to promote and advance the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 7 and the Paris Agreement on climate change. The event offered an opportunity to outline challenges and encourage dialogue by bringing to the…
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Event: High-Level panel on Healthy people and planet – The power of clean energy solutions for health & climate
Date: June, 15 2021 Time: 14:55 to 15:55 CEST Location: Virtual event. Register: This event requires registration, please register here. During the 14th edition of the European Development Days (EDD), high-level representatives from governments, organizations and institutions will discuss how to strengthen the political support, knowledge and capacity to accelerate the adoption of clean and…
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Global Leaders from Health and Energy pave the way for a Clean and Healthy Future for All
Press release originally posted on WHO website. Over 20 leaders, including ministers of health and energy, heads of international organizations and senior representatives from civil society institutions today endorsed a Strategic Roadmap on Health and Energy. The Roadmap identifies key steps to accelerate access to clean and sustainable energy for public health protection and serves…
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Workshop: Developing an Impact Bond Market to Finance Climate, Health, and Gender Co-Benefits from Clean Cooking
Date: May. 26 2021 Time: 2-2:50pm (EDT) Location: Virtual event. Register: Here. (CLOSED) Background Information Now in its 5th year, Innovate4Climate (I4C)’s 2021 edition will be entirely virtual. It will run over 3 days, from May 25-27, each day comprising high-level plenaries along with a Workshop Program which provides a forum for practitioners to demonstrate…
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Course: The Hidden Side of Energy Access: Understanding Clean Cooking
The World Bank’s Open Learning Campus (OLC) has announced the facilitated e-Course “The Hidden Side of Energy Access: Understanding Clean Cooking“. This course explores the hidden side of energy access by uncovering the reality that over 4 billion people around the world currently lack access to modern energy cooking services (MECS) for their daily cooking…
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Report: Nearly Half the World’s Population Still Lacks Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services
WASHINGTON, September 24, 2020—Four billion people around the world still lack access to clean, efficient, convenient, safe, reliable, and affordable cooking energy, a new World Bank report finds. While around 1.25 billion are considered in transition with access to improved cooking services1, the rest still cook with traditional polluting fuels and technologies with severe impacts…
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Accelerating access to modern cooking: Launch of the State of Access Report
Date and Time: Thu, September 24, 2020 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CEST Location: Online Event Register: HERE (CLOSED) Organized by World Bank Group, Clean Cooking Alliance and Loughborough University. About this Event Progress towards ensuring access to modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), has…
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A call to action to scale up clean cooking at the 2020 High Level Political Forum
At the start of the Decade of Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and on the occasion of the High Level Political Forum, ENERGIA/Hivos and the Ministry of Kenya, together with key partners, hosted a virtual side event to take stock of the efforts needed to enhance the ambitions in the clean cooking…
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HLPF Side Event: Accelerated Actions and Transformative Pathways on Clean Cooking for the Delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 7
Side event: Accelerated Actions and Transformative Pathways on Clean Cooking for the Delivery of Sustainable Development Goal 7 Online event: July 9, 2020 12:00 – 13:30 EDT / 18:00 – 19:30 CEST JOIN US HERE With over 4 million people dying every year from noncommunicable diseases caused by household air pollution and 2.8…
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Energy access and clean cooking solutions must be part of COVID-19 economic recovery plans
The response to the COVID-19 crisis must not divert the world away from reaching the climate goals, a just energy transition and an equal and inclusive society, say Eco Matser (Program Manager Climate & Energy at Hivos), Sheila Oparaocha (International Coordinator and Program Manager at ENERGIA) and Hon. Kandeh Yumkella (Ph.D., Founder & CEO of…
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Clean Cooking Alliance Announces 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
The Clean Cooking Alliance (Alliance) has named Neha Juneja, CEO and Co-Founder of India’s largest cookstoves manufacturer, Greenway Appliances, as the organization’s 2019 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. The award recognizes outstanding female leaders in the household energy sector who are advancing clean cooking solutions in emerging markets. Juneja founded Greenway in 2011 to…