Darby Jack
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Darby Jack, PhD, studies environmental health risks in developing countries, the health impacts of climate change, and the role of the urban environment in shaping health. He is in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. For the last several years his primary focus has been the health effects of exposure to indoor air pollution from biomass fuels. With support from the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, he has helped to develop a Columbia-wide biomass working group, which coordinates and supports interdisciplinary research on the topic. These collaborations have given rise to current efforts to measure the health benefits of clean cookstoves in Ghana. In New York, he is collaborating with exposure scientists to estimate the effects of air pollution exposures on people who commute by bicycle.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Darby Jack
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Darby Jack
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Darby Jack
1:45 pm-2:30 pm
Breakout Room C
Friend or Foe - The Role of End-user Subsidies in Developing Clean Cooking Markets
Opinion on the role of end-user subsidies for high quality stove and fuels (e.g. ISO Tier 4-5 for efficiency and emissions) stoves and fuels is often divided into two camps; those who view end-user subsidies, especially freely distributed stoves, as inappropriate tools that risk reducing willingness to pay and distorting market structures, and those that see end-user subsidies as a necessary tool to ensure that socially beneficial solutions like clean cooking are accessible at the last mile and affordable for those at the base of the pyramid. While subsidies typically provide a partial reduction in price, the recent revival of carbon markets is making 100% subsidies on clean cooking products more common in the clean cooking industry. In light of national experiences with household energy subsidies in places like Ecuador, India, and Indonesia, it is opportune to better understand the risks and opportunities of end-user subsidies in the development of sustainable clean cooking markets.
The first part of the session will be structured as a debate with panelists responding to the proposition “Large end-user subsidies for high quality stoves and fuels do more harm than good in the development of sustainable clean cooking markets”.
The second part of the session will be a moderated discussion between the panelists based on some of the views presented during the debate, rebuttals, brainstorming about how smart, targeted subsidies might change the equation, and questions from the audience.
Speakers
Jan Cloin
Coordinator, Energizing Development, Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Abass Ibrahim Tasunti
Head of Economic Regulation, National Petroleum Authority, Ghana
Darby Jack
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Martin Kimani
Managing Director, M-Gas Limited
Juliet Pumpuni
Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank
Day 3
October 13
Sessions by Darby Jack
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Darby Jack
Sessions by Darby Jack
Sessions by Darby Jack
Sessions by Darby Jack
1:45 pm-2:30 pm
Breakout Room C
Friend or Foe - The Role of End-user Subsidies in Developing Clean Cooking Markets
Opinion on the role of end-user subsidies for high quality stove and fuels (e.g. ISO Tier 4-5 for efficiency and emissions) stoves and fuels is often divided into two camps; those who view end-user subsidies, especially freely distributed stoves, as inappropriate tools that risk reducing willingness to pay and distorting market structures, and those that see end-user subsidies as a necessary tool to ensure that socially beneficial solutions like clean cooking are accessible at the last mile and affordable for those at the base of the pyramid. While subsidies typically provide a partial reduction in price, the recent revival of carbon markets is making 100% subsidies on clean cooking products more common in the clean cooking industry. In light of national experiences with household energy subsidies in places like Ecuador, India, and Indonesia, it is opportune to better understand the risks and opportunities of end-user subsidies in the development of sustainable clean cooking markets.
The first part of the session will be structured as a debate with panelists responding to the proposition “Large end-user subsidies for high quality stoves and fuels do more harm than good in the development of sustainable clean cooking markets”.
The second part of the session will be a moderated discussion between the panelists based on some of the views presented during the debate, rebuttals, brainstorming about how smart, targeted subsidies might change the equation, and questions from the audience.
Speakers
Jan Cloin
Coordinator, Energizing Development, Netherlands Enterprise Agency
Abass Ibrahim Tasunti
Head of Economic Regulation, National Petroleum Authority, Ghana
Darby Jack
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Martin Kimani
Managing Director, M-Gas Limited
Juliet Pumpuni
Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank