Getting Cooking Energy Right in the Post-2015 Indicators: Statement and Webinar
Access to sustainable, safe energy has been left out of previous international development agendas and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) is committed to helping reverse this trend. The lack of access to clean and efficient cooking solutions has significant impacts on health, economic, and social well-being, gender equality, and the environment – all areas of critical importance to the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Cooking over open fires and traditional stoves is not only harmful on its own, it is a root cause of poverty, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. Conversely, integrating clean cooking into development agendas and approaches can catalyze impacts across all of these areas.
The Alliance is working towards the full and accurate integration of clean cooking and related issues into the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular the Agenda’s indicator framework.
As part of the Alliance’s efforts to ensure that cooking energy is sufficiently integrated into the Post-2015 Agenda, the Alliance is working with our partner, the ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA), to contribute to the work of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGI), which is in the process of reviewing and finalizing the indicator framework to measure the success of the new global goals.
The Alliance and ENERGIA stand together for the consistent and accurate inclusion of cooking energy, a particularly important concern for women in the developing world, throughout the Post-2015 indicator framework. We have written a joint statement [See Related Information in left margin] that reviews the current indicators related to cooking energy and proposes modified indicators that we consider essential to getting cooking energy right in the Post-2015 indicators:
Summary of Indicator Recommendations
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Goal & Target |
Current indicator as written in the second iteration of this proposed indicator list |
Indicators recommended by the Alliance and ENERGIA |
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Goal 7, |
“Percentage of population with primary reliance on non-solid fuels (%).” |
“Percentage of households primarily using clean and efficient cooking fuels and technologies” |
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Goal 3, |
“Population in urban areas exposed to outdoor air pollution levels above WHO guideline levels.” |
“Mean air pollution of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5).” |
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Goal 3, |
None |
“Number of premature deaths attributable to ambient and household air pollution.” |
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Goal 5, |
“Proportion of household within 15 minutes of nearest water source.” (Recommended by UN Women, but not currently listed as priority indicator) |
“Proportion of households within 15 minutes of fuel and clean water.” |
Universal access to safe, sustainable cooking energy is an imperative to reach SDG 7 on Energy. Addressing pollution caused by inefficient cooking must be represented under SDG 3 on Health. In order to reach SDG 5 on Gender Equality, the amount of time that women and girls spend collecting fuel and cooking must be reduced. Together these joint recommendations will address key areas left out of the Millennium Development Goals.
The Alliance and ENERGIA urge the IAEG-SDGs to include the above recommendations as global priority indicators in the Post-2015 framework
Additional stakeholders have shown their support of this joint statement by adding their logos. If you are interested in adding your organization’s logo, please write to us at post-2015@cleancookstoves.org
The Alliance and ENERGIA also encourage our partners to voice their positions on indicators for the Post-2015 Agenda. In addition to working amongst your own networks and advocating local policymakers, we recommend that your organization contribute to the Online Open Consultation of Civil Society, Academia and the Private Sector on the Global Indicator Framework for the Goals and Targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Watch the webinar about this initiative: