Kweku Koranteng
Clean Energy & Climate Change Resilience Officer, ICLEI Africa
Kweku is an urban development practitioner and researcher interested in advancing socio-economic and political debates on clean and renewable energy transition in African Cities. He worked with and collaborated with research teams across the continent with specific reference to Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and his home country Ghana.
Currently, the Country lead for Uganda under the Enabling African Cities for Transformative Energy Access (ENACT) project in Kampala. He holds a bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Political Science, an MBA in Management Information Systems, an MSc in Climate Change & Sustainable Development from the University of Ghana and a PhD fellow in Development Management in Urban Planning at Stellenbosch University.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
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.
Speakers
Nii Darko
Research Analyst II, World Resources Institute
Kweku Koranteng
Clean Energy & Climate Change Resilience Officer, ICLEI Africa
Abdul Karim Marah
Development and Planning Officer, Freetown City Council
Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey
Mayor of Accra
Mercy Rose
Program Lead, Energy 4 Impact
Helen Watts
Senior Director of Global Partnerships, Student Energy
Day 3
October 13
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
Sessions by Kweku Koranteng
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.
Speakers
Nii Darko
Research Analyst II, World Resources Institute
Kweku Koranteng
Clean Energy & Climate Change Resilience Officer, ICLEI Africa
Abdul Karim Marah
Development and Planning Officer, Freetown City Council
Honorable Elizabeth Naa Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey
Mayor of Accra
Mercy Rose
Program Lead, Energy 4 Impact
Helen Watts
Senior Director of Global Partnerships, Student Energy