Cooking for Climate: Solutions for Clean Cooking to Advance the SDG Agenda
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM EST | 10:30 AM BRT | 3:30 PM CEST
Host Organizations: Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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This 60-minute webinar will focus on the role of clean cooking in the energy transition and the benefits, hurdles, and drawbacks of biogas as a potential solution.
Across the world, 2.3 billion people rely on inefficient stoves and dirty fuels for cooking, resulting in negative effects on the environment and public health. Alternative solutions, such as biogas, are readily available and can be implemented at household and community levels, bringing clean fuel for cooking, lighting, and organic fertilizers to rural communities. This sixty-minute webinar will focus on the role of clean cooking in the energy transition and the benefits, hurdles, and drawbacks of biogas as a potential solution.
Speakers:
- Semida Silveira, CEET Member and Systems Engineering Professor, Cornell University
- Luisa Valentim Barros, CEET Member and Head of Business Development, WayCarbon
- Riad Meddeb, Director of Sustainable Energy Hub, UNDP
- Elisa Derby, Senior Director of Climate, Science & Standards, CCA