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The World Bank has been increasing its financing to the clean cooking sector. Over the last seven years, between July 2015 and June 2022, the World Bank provided about US$562 million for clean or ...

Nearly four in five people in Africa prepare their meals over open fires or traditional stoves, utilizing wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels, but moving towards clean cooking is hard when ...

Participants at a global conference on how to reduce the world’s energy use are calling for universal access to clean cooking through government incentives and subsidies to unlock more private sector ...

Could changing the way you cook help fight global warming? If you’ve considered this question and you live in a rich country, you’ve probably been thinking about whether to ditch your gas stove for an ...

Over 60 countries, developments institutions and companies pledged on Tuesday May 14 a total of $2.2 billions to finance access to clean cooking solutions in Africa and reduce the collateral health ...

The Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa on May 14 will bring together government leaders, heads of financial institutions, development partners, and policymakers from around the world to develop a ...

Maria Yetano Roche has received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education, from the Heinrich Boell Foundation, and from the European Union research programmes. Temilade Sesan ...

The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) has priced its latest outcome bond, a US$200 million Clean Cooking Outcome Bond maturing on 31 March, 2032. The bond aims ...

More than 2 billion people, most of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa, still rely on traditional biomass such as wood and charcoal for cooking, leading to health risks, reinforcing gender inequalities ...