[Stoves] Invitation to Join Alliance Technology and Fuels Working Group

[Leslie Black Cordes]

Received today with attachments. Please contact Leslie Cordes for more
information. Tom Miles

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Dear Colleague:

 

We would like to invite you to participate as a Core Member of the
Technology and Fuels Working Group of the Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves.  These working groups will provide an excellent opportunity for
Alliance partners to help shape the future direction of the Alliance as we
define our strategic vision for the next few years, and we welcome your
active input and engagement.

 

The Alliance was launched in New York City this September with a commitment
to saving lives, improving livelihoods, empowering women, and combating
climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean cookstoves.
Since the launch, we have begun a range of activities to help achieve our
ambitious interim goal of having 100 million homes adopt clean and efficient
cookstoves and fuels by 2020.

 

As a critical step toward this ambitious undertaking, the Alliance is
establishing nine working groups charged with identifying and prioritizing a
suite of critical steps necessary for the sector to reach a 'tipping point'.
These outputs will form the basis of both a public 'Clean Cookstoves
Sector-wide Priorities Report' (or less glamorously, a 'to-do' list) as well
as the long-term strategic plan of the Alliance.  We envision these
documents will serve in a sense as the first-ever sector-wide roadmap on how
to take clean cookstoves to scale in the developing world.  

 

We believe that this 2011 report will be invaluable not only for informing
donors and policy-makers of the steps and resources necessary to catalyze
the clean cookstoves field, but also for bringing experts from all over the
world around a unified vision for the sector and fostering a common sense of
engagement as to the most critical actions necessary to move forward.  The
Alliance hopes to attract significant new financial and non-financial
resources to the sector - and use this report to apply them in ways that
will have the biggest impact to the people who need it most. 

 

The working groups will also be asked to advise the Alliance on early
actions as well as broader strategic questions that need to be addressed in
order to move the cookstoves field forward.  These working groups will be
populated by experts such as you who have the experience and expertise to
inform the dialogue on clean cookstoves and fuels.  

 

The attached 'Working Group - Guide' contains additional information on the
working groups, including objectives, meeting logistics, and workload
expectations.  Please confirm your participation by Friday, December 10, by
returning the enclosed participant information form and a brief 100 word bio
to UN Foundation program associate Amy Sticklor at
<mailto:cookstoves at unfoundation.org> cookstoves at unfoundation.org.

 

We look forward to working with you on this important initiative and thank
you in advance for your support and participation.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Leslie Cordes

Interim Executive Director

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

and

Senior Director, Partnership Development

UN Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

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