Scaling Up Clean Cooking with LPG

Richenda Van Leeuwen, The Global LPG Partnership

15 March 2018

Scaling Up Clean Cooking with LPG

• A clean, portable, safe gas for cooking

• A low carbon, plentiful and environmentally friendly fuel, currently produced as a by-product of the world’s production of natural gas and refining of oil (bio-LPG becoming available)

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LPG Is A Solution That Can Start Helping 1+ Billion Of The 3 Billion People Requiring Clean Cooking Energy Now

Photo courtesy XpressGas Ghana

Cooking with LPG can Help Support Healthier Families…

• LPG meets WHO emissions reductions guidelines for health.

• Switching to LPG use helps prevent the more than one million annual premature deaths in India and over 500,000 across sub-Saharan Africa from household air pollution.

• LPG can be burnt very efficiently and has a lower emissions profile than firewood, charcoal and kerosene – reduced fine particulates: Better respiratory, cardiovascular and other health outcomes due to elimination of smoke inhalation.

• Benefits for pregnant women and children, leading to better birth weight, stillbirth prevention and less incidence of pneumonia in children under five years old.

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….And Healthy Children


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“The Best Vaccine for pneumonia is ensuring that kids don’t breathe

dirty air at home”

Dr. Maria Neira, WHO

The Global LPG Partnership

Developing Countries Have Demonstrated That National-scale LPG Solutions Are Viable And Sustainable

Announced Goal for 2020

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Brazil

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Morocco

Vietnam

Approximate Percent of Population Using LPG

Sources: WLPGA/Argus 2015; governmental data

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Common Reasons For Lack Of LPG Access In Developing Countries

• National governments have not established adequate policies, regulations, market structures, and regulatory enforcement to stimulate and sustain market development.

• LPG, while plentiful globally, is often scarce locally.

• Local companies often lack the money or knowledge of essential practices to build needed infrastructure and distribution systems to reach consumers effectively and efficiently.

• Poorer consumers cannot afford the upfront switching costs—the LPG stove, burner, hose, and cylinder.

These reasons apply to urban and rural consumers alike.

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The Global LPG Partnership Supports Large-scale LPG Transitions

• Launched in 2012, GLPGP is a public-private partnership among host and donor governments, UN agencies, NGOs, DFIs and impact investors, and leading international LPG companies.

• It helps countries build up and coordinate national LPG ecosystems — policies, regulation, supply, infrastructure and distribution — via international expertise and financing.

• It helps consumers switch to LPG via education, microfinance innovations and other support.

• It helps academic researchers pursue evidence-based research around LPG for health and the environment.

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1) Effective market rules, well enforced, to support healthy competition and

cooperation

2) Stable fuel supply to build consumer and

business confidence in LPG

3) Market-stimulating, sustaining policies to

encourage investment in cylinders, and ensure

affordability for end users

4) High retail density to maximize access

5) Effective, professional management and execution in LPG

distribution and safety

6) National LPG Master Plan for implementing 1-5 in a coordinated manner

GLPGP Helps Countries Achieve The Six Pillars Of Sustainable Large-Scale LPG Market Development

Without these enabling conditions, meaningful, sustainable LPG scale-up does not occur

National LPG Scale-Up: Key Process Steps


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1 National LPG Master Planning

2 Detailed Preparation of

Essential Projects

3 Financing and Implementation

4 Independent Monitoring and

Evaluation

Highlights of Current GLPGP Activities

• Over 20 countries have requested GLPGP’s assistance to significantly expand LPG use.

• Highest-focus countries – Cameroon, Ghana and Kenya.

• Cameroon:

– Implementation and financing of National LPG Master Plan

– LPG microfinance program

• Kenya:

– Supporting aspects of national program to distribute 4.8 million cylinders by 2020

– LPG microfinance program to be launched Q2 2018

• Ghana:

– Supporting National Petroleum Authority in implementing national transition to sustainable LPG market model (cylinder re-circulation)

– LPG microfinance program being planned

• Supporting development finance institution partners to deepen and expand their activities and financing for LPG and advocacy on opportunities to adopt LPG use.


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GLPGP Experience in Expanding Access to LPG in Cameroon

Photo credit: Nigel Bruce

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Where most of those 3 billion people are: % of population without access to modern fuels <25% 25% - 50% 50% - 75% 75% - 90% >90% Source: International Energy Agency 2016

Source: International Energy Agency, 2016

% of population without access to modern fuels

<25% 25% - 50% 50% - 75%

75% - 90% >90%

Cameroon Has 16 Million Of The 3 Billion People Who Lack Access To Modern Cooking Fuels

Cameroon

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Projected Development Impact in Cameroon through 2030

• 18 million additional LPG users and 23,000 lives saved through reduction of household air pollution

• Average of 4 million tons of wood fuel (15 million trees) saved per year

• Reduction of 4.5 – 7.6 million tons of CO2-equivalents

• Global cooling effect of -0.10 milli °C in 2030

• USD $100 million of annual new economic activity

• Creation of about 18,000 jobs


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March 2018 Photo credits: LPG Adoption in Cameroon (LACE) Study team, University of Liverpool

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