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[Nikhil Desai]

Paul: This below? I am putting the whole piece since DevEx apparently
allows this to be on Facebook, etc., so would appreciate more circulation.

I am writing a reply to Andrew's short response to this, which was

- On 19 September 2017 at 15:32, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This was needed ten, twenty, thirty, forty years ago.
>
> Great Expectations.
>
> Nikhil

 but Nikhil she seems to be steering the discussion to one of promoting
"access to clean fuel sources" when our argument is that solid fuels can be
burned more cleanly, are largely locally accessible and on the whole the
capital costs are lower.

I do like the idea of off grid solar PV and induction hobs as well as retained
heat cooking as clean technologies but I thought we accepted that was not
making meaningful inroads into the programme yet.


Nikhil

Clean cookstove market needs 'wholesale reappraisa
<https://www.devex.com/news/clean-cookstove-market-needs-wholesale-reappraisal-rachel-kyte-91045>

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Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and special representative
of the United Nations secretary-general for sustainable energy for all.
Photo by: Xinyuan Shang / IFPRI
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifpri/15217158795> / CC BY-NC-ND
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WASHINGTON  — The amount of funding going into clean cookstoves in
countries where the energy access gap is most pronounced “is not even in
the same ballpark” as what is required, according to sustainable energy
expert Rachel Kyte, who said the sector needs a “wholesale reassessment.”

This is one of the conclusions reached in the “Energizing Finance” report
<http://www.se4all.org/sites/default/files/2017_SEforALL_FR4_PolicyPaper.pdf>
from
Sustainable Energy for All released Monday. The report finds that levels of
international and domestic financing aimed at closing the energy access gap
— and particularly the amount being directed to clean cookstoves — is
falling far below what is needed to reach Sustainable Development Goal 7
<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg7>, which calls for universal
access to energy by 2030.

The report analyzes flows of international and domestic finance toward
increasing energy access to 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
between 2013 and 2014 and finds that support for clean cookstoves was
“shockingly low” at only $32 million during the period. The International
Environment Forum estimates $4.4 billion
<https://www.ief.org/_resources/files/events/ief15-ministerial/15th-ief-ofid-background-paper_final1.pdf>
is
needed annually to meet clean cooking needs.

*“Indicators show that the problem is becoming bigger rather than smaller.”*
— Rachel Kyte, U.N. special representative and CEO of Sustainable Energy
for All

Kyte — a special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for
sustainable energy and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All, or SEforALL
<https://www.devex.com/organizations/sustainable-energy-for-all-seforall-74227>
—
told a press briefing that lack of funding in the sector is undermining the
SDGs. SEforALL is a multi-stakeholder initiative to drive the U.N.’s SDG
energy agenda released in 2011.

Clean cookstoves remain “one of the biggest challenges in delivering the
SDG on energy, and it is one of the objectives where the indicators show
that the problem is becoming bigger rather than smaller,” she said.

However, current financing levels are far from where they need to be in
order to address the problem. “We need to have a wholesale reappraisal of
this sector,” she said, adding, “we need to restart the process … $32
million is not going to move the needle.”

Currently, more than 3 billion <http://gtf.esmap.org/> people live without
access to clean cookstoves, according to the Global Tracking Framework
<http://gtf.esmap.org/>, a joint initiative by the World Bank
<https://www.devex.com/organizations/world-bank-group-38382> and the
International
Energy Agency
<https://www.devex.com/organizations/international-energy-agency-iea-20174> to
monitor progress toward the sustainable development energy goals.

Experts agree
<http://cleancookstoves.org/feature/delivering-on-the-sustainable-development-goals-through-clean-cooking.html>
that
clean and efficient cooking facilities can play an important role in
helping to meet a number of SDG targets, including those related to
sustainable energy, the environment, and health. Clean cookstoves can
reduce the amount of charcoal and other fuel being burned in order to cook
food, which results in indoor air pollution that kills millions every year
and releases CO2 into the atmosphere.
Getting clean cooking on the government agenda

Restarting the sector will require tackling a number of key bottlenecks.
The first is that with a few notable exceptions, including India and
Indonesia, there is a lack of political support and prioritization for the
clean cooking agenda in most of the countries surveyed, according to Kyte,
who said a “step change in the level of political commitment” for the
sector is needed.

Another major stumbling block, which feeds into the first, is that
investors have tended to focus on cooking technologies, such as improved
cookstoves, while neglecting the cleaner fuels market. “By focusing on
cookstoves we may have ... missed [the] problem of access to clean fuel
sources,” Kyte said.

In response, she said it is time for “frank dialogue” between the different
actors in the clean fuel space — including those working on LPG gas,
biogas, ethanol, and solar induction technologies — in order “to get a
range of fuel options into cities and rural areas,” she said.
Building markets

The next step will be to develop “market-based strategies to deploy a range
of clean fuels at scale and speed,” Kyte said. This will require
“industry-building” initiatives from national governments, as well as
efforts to raise consumer awareness about the benefits of clean cooking.
Development finance institutions will also need to support these market
creation activities, Kyte explained.

Clean cookstove startup companies also need to be supported. There are far
fewer currently operating compared with, for example, the electricity
sector, Kyte said, and as a result there are fewer places for would-be
investors to put their money.

At the same time, enterprises in the vast majority of countries surveyed
said they faced significant challenges in getting reasonably priced finance
to develop their businesses. “We need to look really hard at how to create
a whole new generation [of startups] in the clean cooking space,” Kyte said.
<https://www.devex.com/news/clean-cookstove-market-needs-wholesale-reappraisal-rachel-kyte-91045>
<https://www.devex.com/news/clean-cookstove-market-needs-wholesale-reappraisal-rachel-kyte-91045>

Furthermore, the cost and size of the transactions involved — which tend to
be very small scale and expensive — also appears to put off many investors,
according to Barbara Buchner, executive director of the climate finance
program at
<https://www.devex.com/news/clean-cookstove-market-needs-wholesale-reappraisal-rachel-kyte-91045>Climate
Policy Initiative
<https://www.devex.com/organizations/climate-policy-initiative-cpi-31416>.
l' — Rachel Kyte

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Nikhil Desai
(US +1) 202 568 5831 <(202)%20568-5831>
*Skype: nikhildesai888*


On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Mainly to Andrew, but others might help.
>
> I am trying to fine a recent email that I am sure came via the Stoves
> Listserv.   It had a linke to an article about words from the lady who
> heads the Sustainable Energy For All organization.   And she was commenting
> about stoves and clean fuels.
>
> ALSO, I thought a quite short message that related to that (above) came
> from Andrew with a one sentence statement about what the Stoves Listserv is
> all about.
>
> I looked but could not find either of the above.   Thanks for any
> assistance.
>
> Paul
>
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