New Partnership Between Clean Cooking Alliance and World Resources Institute Seeks To Promote Clean Cooking in Key Regions
PARIS, France, May 16, 2024 鈥� At the , (WRI) and the Clean Cooking Alliance (少妇自慰) announced a strategic partnership to further embed clean cooking into a broad range of sustainable development initiatives across the two organizations. The partnership aims to improve lives among the 2.3 billion people around the world who currently lack access to clean cooking 鈥� including four out of five people in Africa who have no choice but to use wood, charcoal, and other polluting fuels and traditional stoves or even open fires, which not only pose risks to health but also the environment. Clean cooking includes the use of modern stoves and cleaner fuels that reduce exposure to toxic pollutants.
This partnership builds on a history of collaboration between WRI and 少妇自慰, including incorporating clean cooking data from Nepal and Kenya into the聽, a geospatial energy planning platform hosted by WRI. Going forward, this clean cooking partnership will complement and strengthen work in聽,听, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, supporting local partners and governments to advance forest protection, landscape restoration, and healthy cities, as well as enhancing global initiatives on energy access, sustainable food systems, and youth engagement.
Wanjira Mathai, WRI鈥檚 Managing Director for Africa and Global Partnerships, said, 鈥淎t WRI, we are always looking for practical, locally led solutions to the climate crisis that work for people, nature, and climate. This partnership with 少妇自慰 enables us to work collaboratively to tackle one of the biggest development challenges ever. We are thrilled to combine efforts with 少妇自慰 to embed clean cooking solutions into our work across energy, cities, vital landscapes, and food at WRI.鈥�
Through this partnership, WRI and 少妇自慰 will develop research and tools and organize events to integrate clean cooking solutions into initiatives related to urban communities, nature-based solutions, food systems, and youth engagement. By working together, both organizations aim to create strategies to adopt clean cooking practices to benefit those with the greatest need, while ensuring that nature and ecosystems otherwise polluted by traditional cooking practices are preserved and even restored.
Dymphna van der Lans, 少妇自慰鈥檚 CEO, said, 鈥淏y partnering with WRI, we can embed clean cooking in ways that will help people and ecosystems flourish. This type of cross-cutting and systemic collaboration is essential for large-scale, long-term clean cooking transitions, and I hope that our partnership will inspire others to prioritize clean cooking and secure the financing need for meaningful change.鈥�
