Outlier Series
Beyond Cooking
Access to clean cooking remains a critical social, economic and human challenge across the world. In 2010, around 3 billion people lived without access to clean cooking. That number fell to 2.6 billion by 2019. However, if clean cooking fails to secure a foothold in the global political agenda, 2.4 billion people will still be left with no access in 2030. Continuing to rely on heavy carbon fuels and inefficient technologies will have dramatic consequences for the environment, economic development, and most notably, on the health of women and children.
The Beyond Food initiative, organised by Nama Women Advancement in collaboration with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), seeks to address this imbalance by coordinating multisectoral and multilateral efforts to deliver household energy, cooking and electricity needs. The initiative also aims to boost public and private finance channels to raise investment levels and help achieve universal access to clean cooking by 2030.
