MECS raises profile of importance of scaling electric cooking for achieving a just and sustainable climate transition at OPEC Fund Climate Solutions Week

The UK aid (FCDO) funded Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme had a strong presence at the OPEC Fund Climate Solutions Week, held 22-26 April 2024 at the OPEC Fund headquarters, Vienna. The event brought together global development and financing partners, experts, policy makers and stakeholders to develop actionable strategies for achieving a just and sustainable climate transition. Professor Ed Brown (Research Director, MECS, Professor of Global Energy Challenges, Loughborough University) and Alicia Butterfield (Partnership Manager, MECS) spoke at a variety of events across the week, raising the profile of the importance of scaling electric cooking (eCooking) and the aims of the Global electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo), of which GeCCo’s initial target is to enable a mass transition into eCooking in at least 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, & Latin America and the Caribbean in 7 years, where electricity increasingly becomes the cooking fuel of choice for a significant (>10%) proportion of households and institutions.

Delegates from the Governments of Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda took part in a South-South Learning Workshop supported by Colombia University, MECS, NEFCO, the OPEC Fund, SEforALL and UNIDO. This workshop enabled an exchange of experiences and learning which will be taken forwards in future discussions and implementation of clean cooking solutions in the Global South.  

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Featured image, top: Professor Ed Brown (MECS Research Director, Professor of Global Energy Challenges, Loughborough University) and Alicia Butterfield (Partnership Manager, MECS) at the OPEC Fund Climate Solutions Week, Vienna (image credit: Arisa Andreani Inagaki, SEforALL).