CCA Annual Report Highlights Policy Progress, Market Tools, Global Momentum
WASHINGTON, DC, 11 May 2026 – The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) today released its 2025 Annual Report, documenting progress toward its mission of strengthening the policies, markets, data, and institutions needed to expand access to clean cooking at scale.
Key achievements in 2025 include:
Government Implementation Support: With CCA support, particularly through country-led Delivery Units, Sierra Leone launched its first National Clean Cooking Strategy and removed import duties on a range of clean cooking technologies. Kenya developed a financing roadmap for transitioning public institutions to clean cooking. Nepal approved new national standards for electric pressure cookers and infrared hobs. These steps move beyond commitments, building the policy conditions that allow clean cooking markets to thrive.
International Visibility: Clean cooking gained ground in global forums, appearing as a standing G20 agenda item for the first time under South Africa’s Presidency, and receiving explicit mention in COP30’s Just Transitions Work Program.
Carbon Methodology and Data: CCA submitted the CLEAR Methodology for international approval, tested a Code of Conduct for Responsible Carbon Finance with eight clean cooking organizations, and published a Buyer’s Guide to High-Quality Cookstove Carbon Credits. These public goods are helping to ensure a sustainable and high-integrity carbon market that continues to drive investment toward an underfunded sector.
Consumer-Focused Research: CCA’s User Insights Lab conducted ethnographic studies in Kenya that resulted in practical feedback for companies providing electric pressure cookers. The research is available on a new digital platform, so that enterprises, policymakers, and other stakeholders can benefit from the learnings to design clean cooking solutions that truly meet consumers’ needs.
Leadership: The Women in Clean Cooking mentorship program graduated a fourth cohort of 63 leaders from 20 countries. Since its inception in 2021, the program has supported more than 240 women as they deepen their leadership and contribution to the sector.
“After years of hard work by CCA and our many partners, there is a broad understanding that clean cooking matters,” said Dymphna van der Lans, CEO of CCA. “The harder question now is whether growing ambition can be turned into scaled and sustained implementation. In a tight funding environment, the sector cannot afford fragmentation or complacency.”
CCA’s forthcoming transition to a multilateral initiative, hosted by the International Energy Agency, is intended to anchor clean cooking within global energy decision-making while maintaining the organization’s distinct approach and mission.
The full 2025 Annual Report is available here.
