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Update browserBy Dr Simon Batchelor, (OBE), Dr Anna Clements and Jane Spencer For many people, the words affordability and profitability sound as though they pull in…
Read the full article, eCooking Supply: Affordability and profitability need to work in harmonyBy Dr. Simon Batchelor OBE (Gamos Ltd. / Loughborough University). “Clean cooking is generally overlooked.” It was an apt opening observation from Fatih Birol, Executive…
Read the full article, Beyond the Stove: Clean Cooking’s Next Challenge Is Energy SecurityBy Dr Simon Batchelor (OBE) and Professor Matthew Leach There was a certain irony in discussing climate change while standing in one of the hottest…
Read the full article, Sweltering Heat, Super-Pollutants and Why the Next Twenty Years MatterBy Sheetal Rastogi and Neh Satsangi (Finovista). In India, food is far more than nourishment - it is memory, identity, comfort, and care.The aroma rising…
Read the full article, Beyond LPG: What India’s Multi-Fuel Study Tells Us About the Future of Clean CookingBy Jacob Fodio Todd, Richard Sieff & Nigel Scott An in-depth MECS market estimation exercise identifies at least 35,000 commercial cooking businesses and vendors in…
Read the full article, Prospecting Commercial eCooking: Identifying Scalable Investment OpportunitiesBy Dr Yesmeen Khalifa (Loughborough University) and Professor Matt Leach (Gamos Ltd.) This blog focuses on how the global energy supply disruptions are exposing the…
Read the full article, How the global energy crisis is reshaping the future of clean cooking transitionsBy Nigel Scott, Beryl Onjala, Joseph Kariuki, Anna Clements, Will Clements and Jacob Fodio Todd. There has been growing interest and increasing recognition of the…
Read the full article, The School Kitchen and Cooking Study (SKACS) Protocol: Building evidence to support scaling clean cooking in schoolsBy Isabel Risby, Communications Support Officer, GeCCo The first UNEP, AFREC, CCAC Policy Dialogue on Clean Cooking, co-organised with the UNEP CCC, convened government ministries,…
Read the full article, UNEP–AFREC Clean Cooking Policy Dialogue: Event SummaryHow SMEs are transforming household cooking — and why access to finance remains critical. By TaTEDO-SESO. In many Tanzanian households, the daily act of cooking…
Read the full article, Clean Cooking Entrepreneurs Powering Tanzania’s Energy TransitionBy Prof. Matthew Leach (Consultant to Gamos Ltd.) and Dr. Simon Batchelor OBE (Gamos Ltd. / Loughborough University). MECS recently presented a new draft methodology…
Read the full article, Reflections from the Room: Weighing Black Carbon, Climate, and Credibility in Clean CookingBy Dr Samir Thapa (MECS Programme) Clean cooking sits at the intersection of energy access, public health, gender equity, and climate change. Among available options,…
Read the full article, From Willingness to Pay to Willingness to Invest: Rethinking Biogas Financing Through Carbon Revenues in NepalBy Jose Luis Ortega Moreno and Prof. Ed Brown (Loughborough University). In January 2026, MECS participated in the Sixteenth Session of the International Renewable Energy…
Read the full article, Takeaways and Reflections from the 16th IRENA Assembly, January 2026