Clean Cooking - Financing, Policy, and Innovation for Last Mile Impact

In this episode of the ClimateTech Podcast, we explore how clean cooking—especially electric cooking powered by renewables—is emerging as a powerful climate solution with wide-reaching benefits for health, gender equality, and sustainable development.

We delve into why clean cooking is now a national priority in Uganda, the numerous co-benefits, barriers to scale, including affordability, access, and awareness, and how carbon markets and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can unlock new financing pathways.

Guests:

• Herbert Abigaba, Head of the Clean Cooking Unit, Ministry of Energy, Uganda
• Ruth Akiiki Komuntale, Managing Director, ECOCA East Africa
• Ben Jeffreys, Managing Director, ATEC
• Sandra Cavalieri, Clean Cooking Lead, Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

For more insights, check out the report Business and Financing Models for PV-Supported Clean Cooking.

Or check out the SOLCO Partnership - a multi-stakeholder ecosystem catalyzing the transition to solar-powered electric cooking or hybrid e-cooking in last mile communities across the globe, and the Global Electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo) - a collaboration of eCooking advocates seeking to significantly scale up access to electric cooking solutions across the world.