Driving Force: Access to clean cooking (Johannes)

Description:

Approx. 2.6 billion people (~ 1/3 of global population) are living in areas without access to clean cooking possibilities. This comes with several negative impacts. First, each year approx. 4 million of people die due to breathing of harmful cooking smoke. Second, using woodfuel for cooking is amplifying climate change due to emission of CO2. Thirdly, harvesting the wood is often done in an unsustainable way and increases the biodiversity loss in an already stressed environment. Lastly, using dirty cooking processes is disproportionally negatively affecting woman as they are often responsible for cooking.

Enablers:

• Global electrification: PV panels, mini-grids

• Innovation: Solar cooking stoves

Inhibitors:

• Lack of financial funding for infrastructure due to non-willingness of developed world to transfer money and fiscal non-capability of developing countries

• Corruption

Paradigms:

Without providing clean cooking fuel to all people around the globe, SDG 7 goals cannot be met.

Timing:

2019: 2.6 billion without access to clean cooking possibilities

2030: 2.4 billion without access to clean cooking possibilities

Little improvement by taking into consideration the current policies in place. However, if global funding (esp. from developed world) increases much much more people can be equipped with clean cooking possibilities. This is related to the electrification of the low-income areas in the developing world.

Web Resources:

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/06/07/report-universal-access-to-sustainable-energy-will-remain-elusive-without-addressing-inequalities https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/11/04/why-clean-cooking-matters https://cleancooking.org/binary-data/RESOURCE/file/000/000/416-1.pdf https://www.iea.org/reports/sdg7-data-and-projections/access-to-clean-cooking