Transcript 3 Billion People Still Use Solid Fuels for Cooking and Heating

Leslie Black Cordes
Interim Executive Director
June 21, 2011
Vienna Energy Forum
~ 3 Billion People Still Use Solid Fuels
for Cooking and Heating
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Household air pollution (HAP): most widespread risk factor for NCDs among the poor
in developing countries
– shared by virtually 100% in the bottom billion
– nearly 100% in the bottom 3 billion
Although the fraction of exposed households is slowly declining, the absolute
number of people affected is still rising
– more people are exposed today than in any previous period of human history.
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Health implication of the use of traditional biomass for
cookstoves and open fires
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Malaria
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Tuberculosis
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Smoke from
biomass
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HIV/AIDS
Field is at a Tipping Point
• Development of new stove technologies with measureable
efficiency and emissions improvements;
• New commercial entrants with ability to scale-up
production and address supply chain barriers;
• Availability of innovative carbon and micro financing to
bring down costs of cleaner stoves;
• Strong empirical data on catastrophic health effects and
mortality and injury rates from cookstove smoke and open
fires;
• Evidence of stoves’ contribution to climate change problem
and major role as mitigation option; and
• Launch of national programs in Peru,
India, and China.
Drivers for Creation of the Alliance
• Lack of comprehensive vision and cohesive strategy to solve the
impacts from household energy use on a global scale;
• Scant high-level policy-maker, donor, or private sector
awareness in developed and developing world regarding the
scope of the problem and the range of solutions available;
• Little funding in the sector compared with resources available to
address comparable issues or risks in related fields (electricity,
clean water, malaria, TB, and health care);
• Fragmented field with multiple actors.
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
A new $250 million ten-year public-private partnership led by the UN Foundation
to create a thriving global market for clean and efficient cookstoves in the
developing world to:
 Save lives by reducing exposure to cookstove smoke;
 Empower women through productive enterprises associated with stove
use, distribution, and production;
 Improve livelihoods by reducing disease, freeing time, and saving money
(that can be used for food, medicine, or school fees) and other social benefits;
 Combat climate change by mitigating black carbon and greenhouse gases;
 Advance Millennium Development Goals related to poverty, health, gender
equality, and the environment.
Funders include Governments of United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway,
Germany, Finland, Denmark, and Malta, Dow Corning, Morgan Stanley, SNV, Shell,
Shell Foundation, Bosch Siemens, World Bank, UN Foundation, participation of 10
UN agencies, and hundreds of global partners.
Photo Credit: Sunil Lal
Photo Credit: E+Co
Photo Credit: GTZ
Photo Credit: Nigel Bruce
Alliance Programmatic Focus
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Advocacy
Research
Mapping
Market-Based Solutions
Standards and Testing
Financing
Policy and Governance
Key Premises Underlying the Alliance
• Develop a comprehensive framework and roadmap for what’s
needed to scale up adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels;
• Focus on those approaches that can be brought to scale and meet
basic performance standards;
• Technology and fuel neutral – realizing that we can’t get to super
clean overnight;
• Leverage the ongoing work and tremendous knowledge and
expertise of current stove sector stakeholders;
• Bring new partners and donors to the table through high-level
engagement, advocacy, and targeted messaging; and
• Foster a market-based approach that can lead to economies of scale
and help bring down costs while keeping quality consistent.
What Does Success Look
Like in 10 Years’ Time?
• Demonstration of the health, climate and economic benefits of clean and
efficient cooking solutions through development of a robust research,
monitoring and evaluation agenda;
• Adoption of 100 million clean and efficient cookstoves by 2020 (roughly 20
percent of the globally affected population);
• Investments to address the issue on par with funding for other public
health and environmental risks of a similar severity; and
• Development of a mature global cookstoves sector that can supply clean
and efficient cooking solutions – stoves and/or fuels – to the developing
world at scale and at low cost.
Contact Information
Leslie Black Cordes
Interim Executive Director,
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
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Senior Director, Partnership Development
UN Foundation
202/862-6307
[email protected]