Webinar Series – Transitioning to Clean Cooking

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The webinar series Transitioning to Clean Cooking facilitated the design of policies promoting the adoption of clean household energy. It featured sessions on standards, data for decision making, interventions, and cross-cutting themes such as climate change and gender and served to connect stakeholders from the health, energy, and environment sectors.

Around 3 billion people globally still rely on polluting fuels and technology combinations to meet their basic daily energy needs for cooking. Addressing the global lack of clean cooking and achieving SDG3 and SDG7 by 2030 is one of the main goals of the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA).

One of the objectives of HEPA is to increase the awareness and capacity of relevant stakeholders and policy makers in-country to utilize currently available technical guidance, tools and information resources in policy and programmatic planning for the acceleration of access to clean cooking for health.

As part of HEPA, WHO and the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), hosted a webinar series to engage with different stakeholders in order to effectively support progress towards clean cooking. The series aimed to engage and inform policymakers, donors, investors, and other decisionmakers from both the energy and health sectors about the latest evidence and tools on clean cooking, including cost-benefit analyses, planning tools, and the newest data on household energy use.

The objective of the sessions was to better equip these stakeholders to undertake evidence-based policy and funding decisions that can effectively support progress towards clean cooking.

The webinar series took place throughout 2021 and consisted of numerous sessions.

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Fact sheet

Household air pollution and health

Clean Cooking Alliance

CHEST toolkit

Sessions

1. Session: National Needs Assessments and Stakeholder Mapping

April 22, 2021 - The webinar provided details of tools and resources in the household energy and health sector. Furthermore, several case studies and lessons learned from countries that have implemented the tools have been discussed.

21 April 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 1 - National Needs Assessment and Stakeholder Mapping

2. Session: The Hidden Side of Energy Access – Understanding Clean Cooking

May 12, 2021- This webinar introduced ESMAP’s first comprehensive online course on clean cooking titled The Hidden Side of Energy Access: Understanding Clean Cooking. This four-module learning series explores the world of clean cooking, an oft-overlooked energy access challenge.

12 May 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 2 - The Hidden Side of Energy Access

3. Session: New SDG7 Clean Cooking Data and Pathways to Achieving Progress

June 16, 2021, 2:30PM (CEST) - This webinar focused on the latest SDG 7 tracking progress report on energy. Presenters included relevant UN agencies, policy makers, and civil society organizations to discuss progress, data gaps, and the way forward.

16 June 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 3 - New SDG7 clean cooking data and ways to achieve progress

4. Session: How Behavioral Science Can Help Increase Uptake and Sustained Use of Clean Energy in Developing Countries

June 30, 2021, 2 PM (CEST) - This event presented results from Behavioral Diagnostics in six projects to examine the problems of uptake and/or sustained use of of Solar Home Systems and Clean Cooking/Improved Cookstoves in Sub-Saharan Africa.

30 June 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 4 - Behavioral science to help sustained use of clean energy

5. Session: Cost Benefit Analyses of Various Policies and Interventions

July 21, 2021, 2:30-4PM (CEST) - This webinar examined existing evidence and identify research priorities around the socioeconomic costs and benefits of clean cooking with attention to defining near term economic benefits and reduction of social costs, as well as medium term and long-term benefits.

21 July 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 5 - Cost-Benefit Analyses of Policies and Interventions

6. Session: Defining and Achieving Clean Cooking

September 29, 2021, 2:30-4 PM (CEST) - Presenters defined fuels and technologies which are considered clean for health and summarized the new WHO Air Quality guidelines. Additionally, policies have been discussed which can support transitions to different clean household energy options. This component included a presentation of the new WHO Household Energy Policy Repository.

29 September 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 6 - Defining and Achieving Clean Cooking

7. Session: Driving Climate Action through Clean Cooking

October 20, 2021, 2:30-4 PM (CEST) - This session highlighted clean household energy as an essential strategy for mitigating climate change and improving health.

20 October 2021

Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar 7 - Driving Climate Action through Clean Cooking

This series was organized by the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as part of the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA).