Leslie Black CordesInterim Executive Director

June 21, 2011Vienna Energy Forum

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

• 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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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.

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.

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Photo Credit: Sunil Lal Photo Credit: E+Co Photo Credit: GTZ Photo Credit: Nigel Bruce

Alliance Programmatic Focus

• 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 CordesInterim Executive Director,

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and

Senior Director, Partnership Development UN Foundation202/862-6307

lcordes@unfoundation.org