Millions of African households still cook over open fires or inefficient stoves, with real consequences for health, deforestation and household budgets. This desk covers the technologies, businesses and policies driving the shift to clean, efficient cooking.
Clean air starts in the kitchen.
Better stoves, better lives.
Africa’s clean-cooking financing gap is often framed as a shortage of capital. This analysis looks at the financial readiness, institutional experience and market infrastructure needed…
Efficient biomass and charcoal stoves cutting fuel use and household smoke.
Explore stories →Expanding distribution and affordability of bottled gas in urban markets.
Explore stories →Community and household-scale biogas and ethanol systems.
Explore stories →Pay-as-you-go financing and carbon markets.
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A new wave of targeted LPG subsidies is changing how low-income households…
A cluster of clean-fuel startups is racing to make ethanol cookstoves cheaper…
Clean cooking has consistently attracted a fraction of the climate finance directed…
Powering businesses and livelihoods.
Driving the future of mobility.
Equity, inclusion and resource governance.
Building local value and decent jobs.
Financing models moving capital to clean energy.
Resource efficiency and circular systems for clean industry.
Partnerships for a just transition.
