Drawing insights from today’s learnings – Clean cooking and Carbon markets

[Regina Geraldine]

I see a critical opportunity to connect the dots between capacity building, gender justice, and carbon financing .

Some key points that emerged from the discussion include; Developing training programs that prepare women-led enterprises to understand, measure, and report their carbon savings. This will build their eligibility for carbon credits for their clean cooking projects since there is scaricty of information about carbon financing. We need to encourage innovators in clean cooking especially women and youth to develop sustainable financial models (PASG) that are context specific for their users to facilitate the increased adoption of these energy efficient technologies like the Electric Pressure Cookers. Digital tools like the Offset farm solution and multi-level data systems that linking energy data usage can help small businesses can access climate- finance linked loans occuring from carbon credits.

How can we empower women and youth with the tools, knowledge, and access they need not just to manfacture and use clean cooking technologies but to benefit from them financially?

How can we design carbon market frameworks that prioritize and incentivize participation from women- and youth-led enterprises in clean cooking and energy efficiency?

We can use this transition as an opportunity not just to shift energy sources, but to shift power, ownership and opportunity.

Let’s discuss;

What inclusive capacity-building models have worked in your region?

Are there examples of gender-responsive carbon credit projects that you know of or you have been involved?

How are we making clean cooking financially viable for all?

• This discussion was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by  Regina Geraldine.

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