Recording of the Webinar: “Paris Agreement Article 6 and Cooking Transitions”

This webinar was held on 30^th of October at 13:00 to 14:30 UK Time (GMT) and featured distinguished experts and representatives from various leading groups and organizations in the field.

The webinar was kicked off by Alicia Butterfield, GeCCo Global Manager at Modern Energy Cooking Services introducing our moderator and the panellists and welcoming the audience.

Next, we had a presentation from our colleague Samir Thapa, Research Associate at MECS Programme who gave an overview and context of MECS preliminary findings. This included 1) the status of Article 6.2 agreements and clean cooking projects, and 2) the influence of the proposed Article 6.4 baseline setting approaches and the government fees and contributions on the financing of the electric cooking carbon activities.

The presentation was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Elisa Derby, Senior Director at Clean Cooking Alliance who introduced our panel of experts. The panel included Dechen Pema Yangki from Bhutan Ministry of Energy, El Hadji Mbaye Diagne from UNFCCC, Mitch Sauers from UpEnergy and James Haselip from United Nations Environment Program – Copenhagen Climate Centre.

The panellists shared their views on the status of practice of Article 6.2 clean cooking cooperative approaches, and their challenges and opportunities together with the influence of Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism based on its current developments and possible future directions to the broader carbon market and cooking transition activities. One of the themes that was highlighted was the need for capacity building at different levels, especially for the governments to be able to access Article 6 and understand its linkages to fulfil their Nationally Determined Contributions and Sustainable Development Goals while maintaining the required safeguards and environmental integrity.    

The purpose of the webinar was (a) to stimulate discussion on the current state of play with Article 6.2 and how different stakeholders are currently accessing it for cooking, and (b) outline the expectations – if Article 6.4 framework is agreed, and its implementation is underway, and how it might change the current dynamics.

We hope that you will find this recording an invaluable resource to gain insights on Paris Agreement Article 6 for modern energy cooking projects, especially as a lead-up to the upcoming COP29.

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