Clean Cooking for
Emerging Markets
Problem(s)
3-4 Bn people around the world cook using polluting biomass (including wood, charcoal, coal, crop & kerosene) emitting noxious greenhouse gases and causing horrific health, economic and environmental consequences.
Resulting indoor air pollution kills four (4) million people annually, 75% of them children under five (5) years old. It also reduces life expectancy by up to twenty (20) years.
Traditional biomass cooking accounts for ~2% of global CO2 emissions and is a major contributing factor to forest degradation and localized deforestation.
Women and children in many countries spend up to twenty (20) hours per week collecting firewood often depriving them of the opportunity to attend school or work.
Solution
Transition developing and emerging market communities to improved, efficient cooking methods that reduce global greenhouse emissions and provide a myriad of health, environmental and economic benefits.
The Clean Cooking Company was formed as an umbrella investment vehicle to help accelerate this transition to clean cooking by funding a range of clean cooking projects.
A subsidiary of Trifecta Ventures, the Clean Cooking Company believes that selective investment coupled with the increased maturity of carbon markets present an unprecedented opportunity to transition developing economies to a cleaner and healthier cooking alternative that meaningfully mitigates CO2 emissions and improve the lives of millions of people.
‘For the adolescent girl in Ethiopia or Madagascar who has to miss school to collect firewood before breathing in acrid cooking smoke in an unventilated home, reliable energy access [and] clean cooking would transform her health, her future, and her entire life’
~ Project Drawdown
