Experts seek FG’s support to bring clean cooking solutions to Nigerians by 2030

Experts in the energy sector have called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to support the ongoing private sector-led campaign to provide Nigerians with clean cooking solutions to achieve the country’s development agenda by 2030.

They spoke during a virtual one-day discussion on “Driving Grassroots Awareness on Clean Cooking Solutions in Nigeria” organised by the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking.

One of them was Co-Founder/General Manager, KIKE Technologies, Lillian Aremu, who observed that fewer households were using clean cooking solutions, adding that this was not helping the crusade to abate harmful gas emissions with the high rate of cases of respiratory diseases, heart problems, and death.
She called on the government to prioritise clean cooking in the country’s development agenda by driving the campaign of achieving universal access to modern cooking energy services by 2030.

She said that action to change the climate should not only be taken by governments but also by individuals changing their lifestyles.
One way to accomplish this, she posited, required increasing access to climate-friendly, efficient biomass stoves.

She shared with the participants what the organisation was doing to support SMEs involved in clean cooking solutions marketing. These include, capacity building, financial literacy, business skills, and awareness creation to suit the environment, based on the target market.

She told the forum that the organisation was empowering women entrepreneurs through business training, adding that was an ongoing partnership with some financial sector players to secure them funds to enable their open new ventures.

She also told the forum that the organisation has distributed over 1 million clean stoves across Nigeria.

According to her, financial incentives were vital to the participants are to facilitate the accelerated
deployment of clean cooking technologies. In this regard, she said the organisation through a network marketing model enables Nigerians to earn carbon credits while exploring such
solutions.

The founder, Green Energy Biofuels, Femi Oye, lamented that not so much have been done to get more Nigerians to abandon traditional and polluting cook stoves which estimated health, environmental and economic cost put globally at over $123 billion every year.

In Nigeria, he observed that exposure to indoor air pollution was increasing calling for increasing local awareness and focus on health aspects of cleaner cooking.

He called in members of the alliance to implement a multi-level awareness creation campaign to help in local adoption across the communities.

His organisation, according to him, supports Nigerians exploring opportunities inherent in the cleaner cookstoves space, helping them generate an income and in turn, reducing poverty in rural households.

The moderator, who is also Secretary, Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking, Precious Onuvae, indicated that transformation in the clean cooking campaign cannot be delivered without concerted efforts by individual companies, development organisations and government working together to solve underlying systemic constraints using policies and strategies.

She reiterated that the country needed a unified approach, including active collaboration of Federal and State government agencies to address issues delimitating the efforts of players to achieve positive attitudinal change in favour of clean cooking.

The virtual meeting attracted stakeholders from Nigeria’s clean cooking sector. It offered a rich programme of activities exhibiting testimonies, initiatives, and resolutions to accelerate clean cooking in communities, and institutions across the country.

The event was an opportunity to review existing policies and programmes on cooking energy, take stock of lessons learned, proffer gaps to be filled and opportunities to be accessed in the clean cooking industry. Experts in the energy sector have called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to support the ongoing private sector-led campaign to provide Nigerians with clean cooking solutions in order to achieve the country’s development agenda by 2030.

They spoke during a virtual one-day discussion on “Driving Grassroots Awareness on Clean Cooking Solutions in Nigeria” organised by the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking.

One of them was co-founder/General Manager, KIKE Technologies, Lillian Aremu, who observed that there were fewer households using clean cooking solutions, adding that this was not helping the crusade to abate harmful gas emissions with the high rate of cases of respiratory diseases, heart problems, and death.

She called on the government to prioritise clean cooking in the country’s development agenda by driving the campaign of achieving universal access to modern cooking energy services by 2030.

She said that action to change the climate should not only be taken by governments but also by individuals changing their lifestyles.

One way to accomplish this, she posited, required increasing access to climate-friendly, efficient biomass stoves.

She shared with the participants what the organisation was doing to support SMEs involved in clean cooking solutions marketing. These include, capacity building, financial literacy, business skills, and awareness creation to suit the environment, based on the target market.

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