A Strategy for Universal Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels

Smoke from traditional cookstoves and open fires has been a silent killer in developing countries for far too long. While there are important signs that the sector is at a tipping point, a concerted and coordinated strategy to develop a thriving market for clean cookstoves and fuels is needed to maximize these opportunities and transform the sector.

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has been at the forefront of recent efforts to catalyze a revolution in the sector and mobilize high-level national and donor commitments toward the goal of universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels. Its ambitious ten-year goal to foster the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020 has mobilized support from a wide range of private, public, and non-profit stakeholders. The Alliance’s unprecedented consultative process with the global cookstoves sector has led to the development of the Sector Strategy for achieving its goal. By providing a roadmap for concerted action and measureable results that can quite literally change the lives of nearly three billion people around the world, the Sector Strategy will foster a unified vision for the sector while building a common sense of engagement by all stakeholders on the most critical actions required for universal adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels.

Igniting Change will provide a brief overview of the risks associated with traditional cooking practices, outline the opportunities presented by the use of clean cookstoves and fuels, and chart the steps that will be needed for the global community to radically transform the sector.