Empowering Africa: Clean Cooking Deployment for Sustainable Futures
Embracing clean cooking in Africa will contribute to the world's climate goals, improve health outcomes, and empower communities, especially women and girls.
ICE and Environmental Finance have assembled a panel of experts to discuss on how they are shaping a future where clean cooking serves as a catalyst for improved health and educational empowerment in Africa and find out how climate finance and carbon credits can be an important tool to raise finance to deliver this vision.
Key topics include:
- Health benefits of transitioning to clean cooking, addressing the impact of indoor air pollution on respiratory health
- The issuance and validation process for clean cooking credits
- The role of cleaner cooking in empowering women, leading to increased opportunities for education and economic participation
- The key components of calculating clean cooking credits, including baselining and fraction of non-renewable biomass (f-NRB)
Speakers
- Gordon Bennett, Global Head of Environmental Markets, ICE
- Feisal Hussain, Senior Director, Innovative Finance, Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)
- Dr. Kirti Ramesh, Director of Carbon Ratings, BeZero
- Polly Stebbings, Climate Finance Manager, UpEnergy
- Rehema Mbalamwezi, Vice President of Africa Operations, UpEnergy
- Sarah Leugers, Chief Growth Officer, Gold Standard
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