<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Dear all, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Like announced yesterday at the slideshow at ETHOS 2019 there is an upcoming conference in Ireland looking into pathways to clean cooking as a follow-on from discussions started two years back. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The call for abstracts is now open until 15th February. Find some information about the conference here and in the flyer and poster attached. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">If you are at ETHOS and have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact any of the participants who are in the organising group (myself, Olivier, Omar, Montserrat or Victor) or visit <a href="http://pathways2cleancooking.info/" class="">http://pathways2cleancooking.info/</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We also have some printouts at the desk of ClimateSolutions in the lobby of ETHOS 2019.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Best regards, Christa </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Creating a 2050 Pathways Platform</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Following our inaugural meeting in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico in 2017, we would like to extend the discussion, broaden the participation and audience, and bring together an ambitious multi-disciplinary group of actors in 2019.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The objective of the meeting is to develop pathways for cleaner cooking, focusing specifically on hundreds of millions of people likely to rely on fuelwood and other sources of bio-energy to meet their basic needs for decades to come.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">In a further advance of the Leaving No One Behind approach to the SDG7 and the 2030 agenda, Pathways II will focus attention on reaching the furthest behind first.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Call for abstracts, including case studies and research, related to:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Households and settings - focus on the users & sustainable development impacts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Evaluating pathways to modern, sustainable cooking energy systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Impact Based Finance for cleaner cooking - climate adaptation & mitigation finance, health finance etc.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Modern, clean, sustainable bio-energy in a low-income country context</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Policy options for a just transition to modern, sustainable cooking energy systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">- Transitional and hybrid multiple fuel-device cooking systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Methodology</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The conference will involve:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">" Presentations, seminars & plenaries, including a roundtable discussion on funding opportunities for future case studies (capacity 35-100)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">" Public round table with keynote speech (capacity 172)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">" Musical & cultural concert and video launch (capacity 855), and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">" Photographic exhibition.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Prior to the conference, there will be a number of articles in local newspapers and public seminars in Wexford to induce local interest in pathways to cleaner cooking. Activities are coordinated by an organising committee.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Participants</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The general public will be invited to the roundtable and concert while technical discussions will involve 30-50 participants with a strong interest and commitment form various regions and sectors including academic</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">researchers, field implementers, international agencies, policy makers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">The Venue </b>Wexford Library, the Wexford Arts Centre & the National Opera House in Wexford, Ireland.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Confirmed dates </b>30<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">th </span>and 31<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">st </span>of May 2019.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Cost</b> €80 per person for all events including concert (students €30 including concert).</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">
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