Mercy Rose
Program Lead, Energy 4 Impact
As Program Lead in Mercy Corps and Energy 4 Impact, Mercy spearheads initiatives that focus on bringing field-based evidence and research to action through energy access programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently based in Nairobi and is leading all urban energy access programmes in SSA.
Over her 8 years in the energy and environment sector, Mercy’s interests have ranged from building innovation and research with energy companies to deliver sustainable interventions to the unserved and underserved in rural and urban contexts, improving livelihoods through business training and financial inclusion for end-users, energy access market development including clean cooking, and awareness raising and policy engagement to address access gaps.
Day 0
October 10
Sessions by Mercy Rose
Day 1
October 11
Sessions by Mercy Rose
Day 2
October 12
Sessions by Mercy Rose
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 Mercy Rose
Day 4
October 14
Sessions by Mercy Rose
Sessions by Mercy Rose
Sessions by Mercy Rose
Sessions by Mercy Rose
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