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How can MECS influence policy?
15th September 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Martin Price (Gamos Ltd.) One of the major objectives of the MECS programme is to change the narrative on…
Continue readingRegistration open: “Accelerating Access to Modern Cooking” online event co-organised by World Bank Group, Clean Cooking Alliance and Loughborough University.
15th September 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
About this Event Progress towards ensuring access to modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7…
Continue readingMECS partners with Energy 4 Impact to bring more finance into the clean cooking sector
25th August 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
MECS has partnered with Energy 4 Impact (E4I) to introduce more finance into the clean cooking sector. E4I will be…
Continue readingMECS ECO competition funds 14 projects to the value of £826,000 to facilitate greater uptake and understanding of opportunities for…
19th August 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
The Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Electric Cooking Outreach (ECO) challenge fund competition is to provide over £826,000 of funding…
Continue readingA call to action to scale up clean cooking at the 2020 High Level Political Forum
12th August 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
(Credits: Sven Torfinn/Hivos). At the start of the Decade of Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and on the…
Continue readingLNOB and the Global LEAP: Ensuring Inclusivity in the Selection of Super-users
31st July 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Dr Joni Cook & Dr Jon Leary (MECS team, Loughborough University). In this latest piece of the Leave No-One Behind (LNOB)…
Continue readingMECS and Acumen partnership to accelerate clean cooking solutions
31st July 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Kate Montgomery (Acumen), Malcolm Bricknell (MECS) and Joni Cook (MECS). Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) is partnering with Acumen…
Continue readingCritical Raw Materials and their impact on modern energy cooking provision
24th July 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis. The phrase, critical raw materials (CRMs) gets heard a lot in design,…
Continue readingHow can environmental assessment contribute to the Modern Energy Cooking agenda
21st July 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis. The Modern Energy Cooking Services programme (MECS) has been set up…
Continue readingCooking Health Energy Environment and Gender (CHEEG) – guiding Covid recovery plans
14th July 20, Post, Posted by Joni Cook
By Dr Simon Batchelor. A new working paper by Prof Ed Brown and myself (S Batchelor), outlines why Covid 19 recovery…
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