How do we scale low carbon cooking? – register now for today’s COP26 side event
The Loughborough University-led Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme is hosting an official COP26 side event today (Monday November 1).
MECS is a five-year £40m project, working with the World Bank, to find innovative and modern cooking alternatives to biomass fuels, such as charcoal and wood, that are clean, affordable, reliable and sustainable.
Currently, over a third of the world’s population cook using these polluting fuels, leading to around four million premature deaths each year – primarily among women and children. Using charcoal and wood to cook also has a significant impact on climate change, contributing three per cent of the total CO2 emissions every year.
Tackling this issue is essential if the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 – ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all – is to be achieved by 2030.
The MECS side event – “SDG7: How do we Scale Low Carbon Cooking?” – is taking place in the SDG7 Pavilion at COP26 today, from 3-3.45pm GMT. Clean cooking has been a neglected component of the SDG Agenda. The session will focus on nurturing the growing international political will to finally tackle the issue head on, but will also strongly make the case that tackling clean cooking has to be clearly placed within a ‘net zero by 2050’ strategy.
The session is being run in partnership with the Government of Kenya, the World Bank, the Clean Cooking Alliance, the Transforming Energy Access programme, the Efficiency for Access coalition, the Energy Network Nexus, the Africa-Europe Partnership, ENERGIA and Loughborough’s Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme.
Participants will include stakeholders engaged in national energy planning, international assistance programmes, international finance (particularly new forms of carbon finance), public utility management and the large and small-scale private sectors.
Register here to participate virtually in this event and all other events taking place in the SDG7 Pavilion.
The full agenda for the SDG7 Pavilion can be viewed here.
Notes for editors
Press release reference number: PR 21/228
Video (downloads and embed codes): An introduction to Modern Energy Cooking Services
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Please credit 'Loughborough University', where possible.
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the 2021 QS World University Rankings and University of the Year for Sport by The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2022.
Loughborough is in the top 10 of every national league table, being ranked 7th in The UK Complete University Guide 2022, and 10th in both the Guardian University League Table 2022 and the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022.
Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes
The Loughborough University London campus is based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities. It is home to influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators who provide students with the highest quality of teaching and the very latest in modern thinking.
The Loughborough University-led Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme is hosting an official COP26 side event today (Monday November 1).
MECS is a five-year £40m project, working with the World Bank, to find innovative and modern cooking alternatives to biomass fuels, such as charcoal and wood, that are clean, affordable, reliable and sustainable.
Currently, over a third of the world’s population cook using these polluting fuels, leading to around four million premature deaths each year – primarily among women and children. Using charcoal and wood to cook also has a significant impact on climate change, contributing three per cent of the total CO2 emissions every year.
Tackling this issue is essential if the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 – ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all – is to be achieved by 2030.
The MECS side event – “SDG7: How do we Scale Low Carbon Cooking?” – is taking place in the SDG7 Pavilion at COP26 today, from 3-3.45pm GMT. Clean cooking has been a neglected component of the SDG Agenda. The session will focus on nurturing the growing international political will to finally tackle the issue head on, but will also strongly make the case that tackling clean cooking has to be clearly placed within a ‘net zero by 2050’ strategy.
The session is being run in partnership with the Government of Kenya, the World Bank, the Clean Cooking Alliance, the Transforming Energy Access programme, the Efficiency for Access coalition, the Energy Network Nexus, the Africa-Europe Partnership, ENERGIA and Loughborough’s Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme.
Participants will include stakeholders engaged in national energy planning, international assistance programmes, international finance (particularly new forms of carbon finance), public utility management and the large and small-scale private sectors.
Register here to participate virtually in this event and all other events taking place in the SDG7 Pavilion.
The full agenda for the SDG7 Pavilion can be viewed here.
Notes for editors
Press release reference number: PR 21/228
Video (downloads and embed codes): An introduction to Modern Energy Cooking Services
Embed the YouTube video into your site: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://youtu.be/yG1NZP0g3ZII" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Please credit 'Loughborough University', where possible.
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the 2021 QS World University Rankings and University of the Year for Sport by The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2022.
Loughborough is in the top 10 of every national league table, being ranked 7th in The UK Complete University Guide 2022, and 10th in both the Guardian University League Table 2022 and the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022.
Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes
The Loughborough University London campus is based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and offers postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities. It is home to influential thought leaders, pioneering researchers and creative innovators who provide students with the highest quality of teaching and the very latest in modern thinking.
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