Overview
17 Million+ (57.3%)
Clean cooking population without access (WB, 2023)
9+
Active clean cooking ventures (Source: CCA)
1
Number of clean cooking RBF (Source: CCA)
The Government of Nepal is committed to achieving universal access to clean cooking by 2030, including ensuring that 25% of households nationwide adopt electric cooking by 2030.
Supply
Demand
According to World Bank data, there is a high demand for clean cooking solutions in Nepal due to the health impacts associated with traditional cooking practices. However, only 42.7% of the population had access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking in 2023, up from 41.1% in 2022. There is also a significant urban-rural divide in access, with 62.4% of the urban population having access compared to just 25.7% of the rural population.
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Policy
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Nationally Determined Contributions
Nepal’s enhanced NDC aims to leverage its hydropower potential to increase domestic renewable energy generation from 1,400MW to 15,000MW.11 The targets related to increased renewable energy production and replacement of LPG with ECs and biogas are synergistic with Nepal’s enhanced NDC targets for the clean cooking sector, which are: (1) use primarily EC in 25% of households by 2030, (2) install 500,000 improved cookstoves in rural areas by 2025, and (3) install 200,000 household biogas plants and 500 large scale biogas plants by 2025. Combined, these three targets will reduce cooking sector emissions by 11% and 23% by 2025 and 2030, respectively.
| Source | Nepal NDCs |
Related Resources
Carbon
Nepal has 20 registered cookstove projects. These projects have generated 0.6 million carbon credits to date.
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Results Based Finance
There is one clean cooking RBF program that has operated, or is underway, in Nepal.
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