Clean Cooking Forum 2022

Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey

Mayor of Accra

Hon. Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey is the current Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). She is an economist and a politician.

Prior to her appointment as the first female Chief Executive of the AMA, Hon Elizabeth Sackey served as the Deputy Minister for the Greater Accra Region in the first term of His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government from 2017 to 2020.

Between 2005 and 2017 she represented the people of Okaikwei North Constituency as their Member of Parliament (MP) where she served on the Employment, State Enterprises and Social Welfare, Environment, Science and Technology, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Trade, Industry and Tourism as well as Mines and Energy Committees. She also served as a member of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament during the same period.

She also served as the Assembly Member for the Akweteman Electoral Area from 2002 to 2006.

Before venturing into politics Hon. Elizabeth Sackey worked as a Chief Clerk for the Ghana Commercial Bank from 1983 to 2005.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration from the University of Ghana, Legon. Before that, she pursued a course in Marketing at the Academy of Business Administration where she obtained a certificate in Marketing.

Twitter: @MayorSackey

Day 0 October 10

Sessions by Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey

Day 1 October 11

Sessions by Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey

Day 2 October 12

Sessions by Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Breakout Room B

Cities Can Lead the Way on Clean Cooking

More than half the world’s population lives in cities. Urban areas are engines of economic growth and innovation — but also huge carbon emitters, contributors of pollution and consumers of resources. The way in which cities are designed and governed impacts the quality of life for billions of people. In growing cities around the world, three-quarters of the infrastructure that will exist by 2050 has yet to be built.

Empowering cities to lead clean cooking transitions that best suit the needs of their citizens is essential to improving health, environment, and climate. Municipal energy, climate and development plans should integrate cooking needs and create an enabling environment for the clean cooking sector to provide affordable and accessible solutions.

Cities are at a critical inflection point: Decisions made today will determine whether we continue on a path of fractured, unsafe, polluting growth, or succeed in creating a sustainable, resilient, more inclusive future. This session will discuss how national, state and city governments can collaborate to accelerate access to clean cooking and make cities around the world more resilient, inclusive, low-carbon places that are better for people and the planet.

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