by Nigeria Cleancooking | Aug 22, 2023 | Forum, News
The Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum is an important, annual gathering of stakeholders working to accelerate the production, dissemination, and use of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels. The current relationship between public and private partners in the clean cooking industry needs to be strengthened. The private sector in the clean cooking industry requires interventions to enhance value chain development, balanced product supply and demand, technology innovations and knowledge transfer for a seamless transition to carbon-neutral cooking.
by Nigeria Cleancooking | Jun 29, 2023 | News, Press Release
Click Here to join Organized by Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking (NACC) On Tuesday, July 25, 2023, at 2.00 pm (WAT) Panelist include: Simba Mudimbu, Senior Portfolio Manager, Ventures Programs, Clean Cooking Alliance Tim Neville, Chief Operating Officer, Impact Carbon Ltd Toyin Oshaniwa, Carbon Operations Lead, UP Energy Group Uwem Useh, Head of Mitigation Unit, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment Asmau Jibril, Carbon Finance Lead, National Council on Climate Change Moderator Ewah Eleri, Executive Director, ICEED and Chairman, BOT, Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking Background Emission from cooking represents about 55 million metric tonnes of CO2e and about 700,000 metric tonnes of PM2.5 emissions. There is an increasing global demand for a transition to carbon-neutral cooking solutions. A net zero carbon world demands that we mobilize all available resources and efforts to address the challenges of climate change and clean energy access. Clean cooking has a major role to play. Nigeria joined other countries and launched the Energy Transition Plan (ETP) as a strategy to reach a net-zero emissions by 2060. The Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) also seeks to reduce emission through the promotion of clean cooking. It has a clean cooking target of 48 % of population (26.8 million households) using LPG by 2030; and13 % (7.3 million households) using improved cookstoves by 2030. Clean cooking energy for all is not only possible but a right for all citizens. In several countries, carbon offsetting plays a key role in meeting the Paris Climate Agreement objectives and contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Access to carbon finance has helped in lowering...
by Nigeria Cleancooking | Dec 17, 2022 | News, Press Release
R – Osamede Precious Onuvae, Secretary, Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking; Idris Fonahanmi, CEO, Fonbol Energy Ltd; Auwalu Bala, NNPC Group;Princess Odiaka, Head of Secretariat, LPG Expansion Implementation Programme, Office of the Vice President;Jochen Lucksheiter, Country Director, Heinrich Boell Foundation;Victoria Gyang Pwol, Deputy Director, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment, representing the Permanent Secretary, Dr. Aliyu Musa Yauri, Director, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment, Asmau Jibril, Chief Scientific Officer representing Dr. Inibong Abiola-Awe, Director, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment, Doosugh Agbadu, NESREA; Maryam Hassana, Desk Officer, Clean Cooking Unit, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment. ABUJA – On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, the Federal Ministry of Environment and other key stakeholders’ validated the Draft National Clean Cooking Policy during the Validation Workshop which held at Bolingo Xperia Hotel, Abuja. The Workshop had all key stakeholders’ present virtually and in-person. The Policy among others will foster an enabling policy environment, strengthen supply and enhance demand for clean cooking solutions in Nigeria and support the federal government’s goal of universal energy access. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, Dr. Charles Ikeah represented by Victoria Gyang Pwol, Deputy Director, Department of Climate Change during his opening remark mentioned that “Nigeria has made a firm commitment to expand access to clean cooking. By 2030, the country aims to provide access to LPG for 48% and improved biomass cookstoves to 13% of households”. According to him, ‘Smoke inhalation is the 3rd highest killer of women and children in Nigeria. Despite the benefits of clean cooking solutions, the market is still underdeveloped. This led...
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by Nigeria Cleancooking | Dec 17, 2022 | News, Press Release
ABUJA – On Monday, December 12, 2022, the International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development (ICEED) in partnership with Heinrich Boell Foundation, the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking and the Federal Ministry of Environment conducted a 2-day clean cooking training for staff of the clean cooking unit, Department of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment and some key stakeholders’ in Abuja, Nigeria. The training was aimed at preparing the Clean Cooking Unit in the Federal Ministry of Environment to carry out its institutional mandate of advancing the goal of clean cooking in Nigeria. Other stakeholders trained were better equipped to implement their clean cooking activities and move the industry forward. The two days in-person training took participants through series of modules including an overview of clean cooking in Nigeria, financing the clean cooking Industry, advocacy and communicating the value of clean cooking, growth strategy among others. At the end of the workshop every participants presented a summary of their key takeaways and their plans for expanding access to clean cooking in their organisations. Nigeria is facing a silent energy crisis. Only one in ten households in the country use clean energy sources and technologies for cooking. Traditional cooking with firewood and other polluting fuels such like kerosene and charcoal are claiming lives, destroying the environment and putting a burden on women.In its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), Nigeria has made a firm commitment to expand access to clean cooking. By 2030, the country aims to provide access to LPG for 48% and improved biomass cookstoves to 13% of households. This will save over 30,000 lives per annum, build a...
by Nigeria Cleancooking | Sep 26, 2022 | News, Press Release
Organized by International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Clean Cooking Alliance. Thursday, September 29, 2022 – 13.00 West African Time. Moderator: Ewah Eleri, Executive Director, International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development. Panel: > Sheila Mapilele, FUNAE – Fundo de Energia, Mozambique > Jechoniah Kitala, Practical Action, Kenya > Michael Ahimbisibwe, Clean Cooking Alliance, Uganda > Huzi Mshelia, Nigeria > Colm Faye, Clean Cooking Alliance CLICK HERE TO JOIN MEETING Recently, Nigeria launched an Energy Transition Plan. The Plan makes a long-term commitment to achieve carbon neutrality and end energy poverty. This will lift 100 million people out of poverty, drive economic growth, and bring modern energy services to the entire population. Providing universal access to clean cooking energy services is central to the goal of the Plan. As part of efforts to reach national clean cooking goals, the Federal Government has committed to developing an enabling policy framework for the growth of access to clean cooking. The government has established an Inter-Ministerial Committee to develop a comprehensive clean cooking policy. As Nigeria seeks to build a toolbox of policy instruments to achieve universal access to clean cooking, it seeks to anchor this effort on international best practices. This webinar brings together key clean cooking policy experts from Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and Nepal to discuss the nuts and bolts of effective policies that enable the rapid transition to clean cooking. What are achievable national targets? What incentives and regulations enable rapid clean cooking uptake? What is the role of the state versus the private sector? What financing mechanisms...
by Nigeria Cleancooking | Jun 27, 2022 | News, Press Release
Ewah Eleri is the Executive Director, International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED) and top member of the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (NACC), a public private partnership. He spoke to CHINEDUM UWAEGBULAM on efforts to meet Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) commitments. Traditional cooking with firewood and other polluting fuels are claiming lives, destroying the environment and putting a burden on women. Do we have clear-cut policies and strategies for low carbon energy development in Nigeria?According to available statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO), smoke from the kitchen leads to 95,300 deaths yearly in Nigeria. After malaria and HIV/Aids, indoor air pollution is possibly Nigeria’s third highest killer. For those who survive the smoke there are serious health consequences. Children born to women who are exposed during pregnancy, risk low birth weight, impaired mental abilities and birth defects. In many ways, the lack of access to clean cooking is Nigeria’s silent energy crisis. But the costs are primarily borne by women. In many parts of the country, women and girls are responsible for fetching firewood. This is time that they could go schooling and doing other empowerment opportunities. Besides the drudgery of collecting firewood, women and girls also bear the additional burden of inhaling the deadly smoke. Curiously, issues of clean cooking hardly make it to the priority list of energy policy making. Beyond the health impacts, Nigeria has 3.5 per cent yearly rate of deforestation and loses approximately 350,000 – 400,000 hectares per year. The widespread use of wood for cooking contributes a sizeable share of deforestation, alongside expanding agriculture, bush...
