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Clean Cooking Forum in Ghana
The Clean Cooking Forum 2022 will feature an interactive plenary and breakout discussions, Business-to-Business matchmaking, and an Innovation Expo showcasing the latest developments in clean cooking. Forum sessions will explore critical topics such as creative financing and investment opportunities; emerging business models; enabling policies; new technologies and innovative approaches; and strategies to strengthen the inclusion of women throughout the clean cooking value chain.
Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations, will be participating in a number of sessions at the Clean Alliance for Cookstoves on clean cooking and nature. If you would like to set up a meeting, please send an email outlining the reason for meeting and your availability to Claire Willers.
Clean Cooking & Nature: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable and Inclusive Nature-based Solutions
Wednesday, 12 October
15:00 – 16:00 WSST
It is increasingly recognized that safeguarding nature is critical to addressing climate change and protecting billions of the most vulnerable people around the world. Yet, as governments, donors and investors look for ways to protect and restore nature, they often overlook one of the most accessible and impactful solutions: clean cooking. This session will highlight the fundamental role of clean cooking in delivering and achieving the benefits of nature-based solutions. Illustrating how clean cooking enterprises and conservation organizations are leveraging clean cooking value chains to deliver inclusive and sustainable rural development and ensure long-term success of nature-based solutions, and it discuss the key financing barriers and opportunities to align and scale clean cooking approaches with nature-based solutions.
Speakers
Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations – Gold Standard
Margot Clarvis, Consultant, Clean Cooking Alliance
Perspectives on Innovation: Measuring & Monetizing Impacts
Wednesday, 12 October
9:00 - 10:30 WSST
As the digital revolution is helping to transform investment in climate and nature-based solutions, it will be key to accelerating investment and confidence in clean cooking solutions to support them. This talk will highlight some of the recent innovations in digital tools, standards and infrastructure and explore how a dedicated digital finance initiative for clean cooking could help to speed up innovation and pilot new applications for scaling nature-positive climate equity outcomes.
Speakers
Claire Willers, Senior Manager, Market Relations – Gold Standard
Elisa Derby, Director, Standards & Research, Clean Cooking Alliance
Daniel Kammen, Senior Advisor for Energy Innovation, Us Agency for International Development
Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
Nordica MacCarty, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
Subhrendu Pattanayak, Oak Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Duke University
Better data, lower costs: can advances in field monitoring delivery
Thursday, 13 October
9:00 - 10:30 WSST
Field monitoring is a necessary but complex and time-consuming component of cookstove carbon projects. With the implementation of Article 6, there is a need for simultaneously more accurate data and more cost-effective approaches. These sessions will report on the latest developments in monitoring practices and explore how cookstove monitoring methodologies are evolving.