[Stoves] The State of Modern Energy Cooking Services - major new document available

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends of Modern Energy

A new report of the state of access to modern cooking solutions is available for download from ESMAP at the World Bank.  The press release is here<https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/energy/publication/the-state-of-access-to-modern-energy-cooking-services>.


"The State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services report<https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/937141600195758792/the-state-of-access-to-modern-energy-cooking-services> finds that four billion people around the world still lack access to clean, efficient, convenient, safe, reliable, and affordable cooking energy.<https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/energy/publication/the-state-of-access-to-modern-energy-cooking-services> While around 1.25 billion are considered in transition with access to improved cooking services, the other 2.75 billion face significantly higher access barriers.

"Using an expanded methodology to provide a more comprehensive measurement of household energy access and cooking solutions, the report finds that the rate of access to modern sources of energy for cooking stands at only 10 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, 36 percent in East Asia, and 56 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean.<https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/energy/publication/the-state-of-access-to-modern-energy-cooking-services>
The report itself is here<http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/937141600195758792/pdf/The-State-of-Access-to-Modern-Energy-Cooking-Services.pdf>.

>From the Executive Summary:

"How we guide progress toward achieving access to modern-energy cooking solutions for all is more critical than ever before. To date, measurements of access have focused primarily on fuel penetration, overlooking many of the contextual factors that shape users' adoption of stoves and fuels. Over the past decade, much attention has focused on expanding access to "clean" cooking solutions, defined by the technical attributes of combustion and heat-transfer efficiency and emissions. However, the 2020 Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report finds that the annual increase in access to clean cooking fuels and technologies between 2010 and 2018 averaged just 0.8 percentage points. In Sub-Saharan Africa, population growth outpaced the annual growth in access. Most progress was in urban areas, with rural areas continuing to fall behind. Clearly, without a more complete understanding of the local context of cooking-including users' cooking experience, their physical cooking environment, and the markets and energy ecosystems in which they live-the uptake and sustained use of the stove technology-and-fuel solutions available today will remain limited.

"Not progressing beyond the status quo is costing the world more than US$2 trillion each year. The recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) underscores the interlinkages between traditional cooking, gender, health, and the environment. Exposure to air pollution is a known risk factor for underlying chronic diseases that are predictive of the severity and outcome for COVID-19 patients. This linkage suggests a heightened risk for women across all age groups who cook using traditional technologies and fuels. Because the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are cross-cutting, slow progress in meeting the 2030 SDG 7.1 target-ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services-hinders progress toward meeting the SDG targets for health, gender equality, and climate, among others. Women and children account for most of the estimated 4 million premature deaths that occur each year from household air pollution (HAP) linked to cooking with traditional stoves and fuels.1 The health-impact portion alone is estimated at US$1.4 trillion per year. Women bear a disproportionate share of the cost of inaction in the form of poor health and safety, as well as lost productivity, which is estimated at US$0.8 trillion annually. In addition, cooking with high-emissions stove technologies with fuels sourced from non-renewable biomass contributes to environmental degradation and adverse climate impacts, estimated at US$0.2 trillion per year."


There is a lot that is new.

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Enjoy reading.

Best regards
Crispin
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