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Intended Audience and Potential Applications
The Clean Cooking NDC Tracker is designed primarily for policymakers, researchers, and climate-focused stakeholders. It is a starting point for more in-depth analyses. For example, stakeholders interested in assessing the quality of the clean cooking NDCs measures in East Africa might focus on details like:
- Is the measure quantifiable?
- Does the measure include a target expressed in CO2e?
- Is the measure aligned with wider national development goals?
- Does the NDC include details on implementation plans, costs, and capacity-building needs associated with the given measure?
- Does the NDC identify cross-sectoral synergies? (e.g., a given measure that targets the energy sector is acknowledged to have implications for the forestry sector.)
- Does the measure include the elements of a robust clean cooking implementation target? (see below)
| Elements of Robust Clean Cooking Implementation Targets |
| Quantity: Specify the target for the scale of technologies and fuels (e.g., 100,000 households) |
| Quality: Specify ISO voluntary performance targets for efficiency and/or emission (e.g., ISO Tier 3 or higher for efficiency) |
| Technology: Specify appropriate technology types (e.g., improved biomass stoves, charcoal stoves, electric induction stoves, or the converse “alternatives to wood-energy and charcoal”) |
| Fuel type: Specify appropriate fuels (e.g., biomass, biogas, LPG, bio-ethanol, electricity) |
| Area: Define relevant geographic areas (rural or urban, specific provinces according to biomass use or electrification rates or poverty levels) |
| References: Specify standards, testing, and labeling |
The tracker can also act as a starting point for identifying the most common cooking fuels mentioned in NDC targets (e.g., how many countries are targeting electric stoves vs. gas stoves or other clean fuels).
Tracker Components:
- Summary Measure:* The number of countries that include clean cooking adaptation and/or mitigation measure(s) or policy(ies) in their latest NDC.
- Summary Country: A list of countries that include clean cooking adaptation and/or mitigation measure(s) or policy(ies) in their latest NDC.
- All Measures: A list of clean cooking adaptation and/or mitigation measure(s) or policy(ies) included in each country’s NDC, as well as their associated conditionality, financial needs, and other details, as available.
If you are unsure about the methodology and terminology used in the tracker, please consult this page. The “READ ME” tab of the Excel dataset also includes this information.
* Note: The “Summary Measure” tab does not automatically update based on filters applied in the “Summary Country” tab. Countries with one or more clean cooking measures (both implicit and explicit) will have a value of 1-8 in column G of the “Summary Country” tab. Countries with one or more explicit measures will have a value of either 2, 4, 6, 7, or 8. Countries that only include implicit measures will have a 1, 3, or 5.
Disclaimer: The Clean Cooking NDC Tracker does not aim to evaluate the comprehensive level of detail or quality of NDC measures. Even if a country is marked as including an explicit clean cooking NDC measure, this does not necessarily mean that the measure is comprehensive, achievable, and verifiable. Additionally, the content of the tracker is based solely on information from each country’s NDC and does not consider other national policies unless expressly referenced in the NDC.
How to Cite the Tracker:
Clean Cooking Alliance (2026). Clean cooking measures in active NDCs. Version 3.0. Updated 14 April 2026.
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