Amid Deteriorating Climate, UN Emphasizes E-Cooking 

The United Nations (UN) has harped on electronic cooking as one of the effective measures to tackle the effect of climate change.

As the world keeps experiencing hotter temperatures from greenhouse gas concentrations rise causing global surface temperature; more severe storms, increased drought, a warming, rising ocean, loss of species, not enough food, more health risks,  Poverty and displacement, there is a dire need for intervention.

In the pursuit of sustainable development and climate resilience, the UN stated that  off-grid solar electric cooking (e-cooking) technologies is a dual solution encompassing both climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

A statement on its X account, revealed that globally, cooking with biomass amounts for as much as 2% of CO2 emissions. “Given the rapid advances and price reductions in solar e-cooking technologies, there is an opportunity to scale these solutions to help close the emissions gap and deliver a range of co-benefits in support of numerous Sustainable Development Goals.”

However the UN noted barriers in attaining this goal especially in Africa where fire woods and stoves are mostly used to cook due to lack of purchasing power. 

The UN said, “Barriers to uptake remain and so a range of supply and demand-side interventions are needed to overcome these, to enable the provision of affordable financing for households to purchase solar e-cooking systems.”

The statement emphasized the significance of energy for cooking as a pivotal climate issue, in addition to being a critical concern for economic development, health, gender equality, and the local environment in low-income countries.

“The challenge is acute across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where population growth is driving up total greenhouse gas emissions. While per-capita emissions remain far lower across SSA compared to most other regions, energy for cooking accounts for the largest share of household emissions, especially in rural areas.

“Reflecting this challenge, clean cooking targets feature prominently in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) across Africa, including some explicit targets for e-cooking. However, there are opportunities to highlight this further in revised NDCs and include a broader range of existing e-cooking technologies.

“In essence, this report serves as a call to action, identifying specific needs and opportunities for both demand and supply-side market activation for solar e-cooking technologies, as a linchpin of climate resilience and sustainable development at the last mile, in the global south,” it said.

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