2024: The Clean Cooking Turning Point
Channel: International Energy Agency
Date: 13/12/2023

Find out more: https://iea.li/CleanCookingFortuneCommentary

Today, 2.3 billion individuals globally — nearly a third of the world’s population — continue to prepare their meals over open fires or rudimentary stoves, exposing themselves to hazardous smoke emitted from burning coal, charcoal, firewood, agricultural residues, and animal dung. In Africa alone, this affects close to a billion people — constituting approximately 70% of the continent. The just energy transition is incomplete without addressing the clean cooking access gap. A full transition to clean cooking in Africa could help cut the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emitted by the world’s planes and ships – making universal clean cooking access an essential pillar of Africa’s Net Zero ambitions. Clean cooking features in the majority of African NDCs — but climate finance is crucial to realise these plans.


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