"Cooking as a Business" is an innovative approach to enhance the financing of clean cooking in developing countries. By utilizing carbon markets, the project can make a significant contribution to improving health and the climate. Globally, around 2.6 billion people use solid fuels such as firewood and charcoal for cooking, leading to health issues, particularly for women and children, massive deforestation, and climate change. Clean cooking is one of the best solutions to address this situation, involving the use of highly efficient stoves (cookstoves) that consume less fuel and emit fewer greenhouse gases.
Core activities
The "Cooking as a Business" project is an innovative approach to enhance the financing of clean cooking in developing countries. The project develops a "Cooking as a Business" platform, a climate technology platform that provides the following services.
- Financial support for the purchase of clean cooking equipment and fuel
- Automatic registration of carbon credits
- Payment of carbon revenues to low-income households
Specific sub-goals
- Accessibility: Ensure the platform is accessible to low-income households in developing countries.
- Transaction Cost Reduction: Reduce transaction costs for the issuance of carbon credits.
- Income Distribution: Ensure carbon revenues reach low-income households.
The project has several key aspects, including a focus on the use of carbon markets, which reward businesses and organizations for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. By leveraging carbon markets, the project can bridge the financing gap for clean cooking and encourage low-income households to adopt clean cooking practices.
Partners
Impact
- Increase in the use of clean cooking equipment and fuel by low-income households.
- Improvement of the health of low-income households.
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 13: Climate Action