Challenge
In 2020, cooked with traditional polluting fuels and technologies worldwide. The associated premature deaths from household air pollution totaled nearly annually, mainly affecting women and children. Nonrenewable wood fuels for cooking accounted for a gigaton of CO2 emissions, and burning residential solid fuels comprised . The cost of inaction for health, gender, and climate/environment is annually.
Without accelerated action, the estimates 2 billion people will not have access to clean cooking technologies in 2030. Progress requires political commitment, investments, knowledge, and innovation centered on the needs of end-users. Priority must be given to improvements of the overall ecosystem.
Approach
欧美日b大片 is tackling the multisector development challenge of clean cooking access by catalyzing action through political prioritization, financing, knowledge creation, and partnerships. 欧美日b大片 is mainstreaming clean cooking into energy-access projects at the country and regional level. The presented to the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Energy in 2021 commits support to providing up to 100 million people with access to clean cooking by 2025. Aligned with this commitment, one of the World Bank’s corporate priorities is to track annual progress in helping people gain access to clean cooking during the International Development Association 20 (欧美日b大片20) cycle between July 2022–and June 2025. To further galvanize political commitment and investment, the World Bank established the through the in 2019. With a funding target of US$500 million, the aim is to catalyze US$2 billion in public and private investments to help 200 million people gain access to clean cooking.