Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Netherlands and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Last week SNV and the Shell Foundation convened a round table discussion of Dutch rural energy practitioners in Den Haag to discuss the recently formed Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an overview of activities currently being driven by NL parties in clean cooking, and explore the potential for future collaboration.

The discussion focused heavily on programmatic carbon finance, though other topics including the need to stimulate market demand,  and further understand the entire cooking energy value chain (including forestry management and feedstocks) were also highlighted. We saw quite a bit of overlap between the research directions in RENEW, and contributed insights gained from fieldwork in Rwanda, Kenya, and Indonesia. 

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