A new report developed by ESMAP and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves builds a strong evidence-based case for accelerating clean cooking and heating solutions in pursuit of sustainable development. It provides a comprehensive…
Nearly 3 billion people in the developing world continue to rely on solid fuel for their cooking needs with serious impacts on economic development, human health, and the environment. The WHO estimates that exposure to household air…
In this edition: ESMAP and Clean Energy Ministerial to join hands to help countries integrate renewable energy in grids; still far to go to reach global goals of universal energy access and doubling sustainable energy; economic costs of…
Fossil fuel subsidies are bad economic policy, bad social policy and bad for the environment. Yet, many countries have some type of fossil fuel subsidy.
The AFREA gender and energy program has been supporting activities in six countries: Senegal, Mali, Benin, Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia. As part of this work, a Gender and Energy Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange workshop was held in…
