Powering Progress: Market Creation Strategies for Solar E-cooking Technologies in Off-grid and Displaced Communities
This report by the UN Environment Programme and World Food Programme underscores the significance of energy for cooking as a pivotal climate issue, in addition to being a critical concern for economic development, health, gender equality, and the local environment in low-income countries. The challenge is acute across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where population growth is driving up total greenhouse gas emissions. While per-capita emissions remain far lower across SSA compared to most other regions, energy for cooking accounts for the largest share of household emissions, especially in rural areas. Within this broader landscape, we focus primarily on displacement settings where there are growing challenges and opportunities for creating and shaping the market for clean and modern energy cooking solutions, necessitating a change in thinking as well as operational reforms within the humanitarian sector.
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