Igniting Change
Igniting Change is designed as a comprehensive vision for the cookstove sector to achieve universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels. The strategy charts three critical pillars of activity – enhancing demand, strengthening supply and fostering an enabling environment as key components of a thriving market for clean cookstoves and fuels. Igniting Change will serve as a blueprint for donors, the private sector, implementers, researchers, the United Nations and policymakers that outlines a combination of policy and actionable programmatic levers to catalyze the sector.
“When the Alliance was launched last year, the founders knew that a market-based solution – with engagement from a range of stakeholders – was our greatest chance for success,” said Radha Muthiah, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. “The time is right to address the barriers to affordable, accessible and clean cooking solutions that have permitted a silent killer to exist for too long. Igniting Change is the foundation from which the Alliance and the broader sector will build toward universal adoption, including meeting our own goal of 100 million households adopting clean cookstoves and fuels by 2020.”
The report weaves together recommendations from more than 350 international experts from a range of disciplines and organizations participating in nine Working Groups and two Cross-Cutting Committees over the past year.
For a downloadable version of the report, click here.
For an executive summary of the report, click here.
For a factsheet on the Alliance and the report, click here.
To read the Working Group Roadmap and Early Action Recommendations, click here.
About the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves:
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is an innovative public-private partnership led by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. The Alliance’s 100 by ‘20 goal calls for 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020. The Alliance is working with its public, private and non-profit partners to help overcome the market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment and use of clean cookstoves in developing countries. Visit www.cleancookstoves.org for more information.
Media Contact: Sean Bartlett | 202.419.6401 | sbartlett@unfoundation.org
