Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar Series: Session 5
The webinar will launch a new state-of-the-art global tool to conduct cost-benefit analyses of the transition to cleaner cooking, including monetized benefits to health, climate and environment as well as costs to governments and households.
The session will serve as the launch of a new state-of-the-art global tool (and the only resource currently available) developed by WHO, Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution, to conduct cost-benefit analyses of the transition to cleaner cooking. The tool includes 16 different cleaner cooking transitions from more polluting stoves and fuels to cleaner options, including both transitional options (that offer some health benefits) and clean options. The tool quantifies and monetizes fuel costs, time and learning costs and benefits, health benefits from avoided morbidity and mortality, social health benefits (incorporating household air pollution contributions to ambient pollution levels), and environmental benefits of reduced fuel harvesting and climate-forcing emissions.
In addition, the webinar will cover the work of the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) together with Duke University on cost benefit analysis of different cooking technology transitions, including specifically for two cities – Nairobi, Kenya and Kathmandu, Nepal. The analytic framework builds on a peer-reviewed cost-benefit model which was updated with support from the CCA, to incorporate new findings from the large number of recent evaluations of cookstove and clean fuel promotion interventions, also incorporating price changes to clean stoves and fuels (via subsidies). It provides countries with a much-needed resource to effectively plan a healthy energy transition. The household-level framework was recently adapted to consider a range of policy interventions and to be applicable to different geographic or administrative units (e.g. cities), accounting for spillovers across households and the contributions of cooking-related emissions to ambient pollution. Furthermore, to complement the findings from the tool, this event would also s provide experiences from in Kenya, analyzing the revenue gains for the government, impacts a shift is expected to have on stove and fuel companies, as well as monetized impact on households and society.
This event combining practical tools, with in country experiences will provide countries and other stakeholders with greater knowledge and know-how to tackle clean cooking as means of disease prevention.
Recording
The recordings of the session can be accessed here
Introduction
- Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance
Opening Remarks
- Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Presentation
Household Air Pollution and Health and New Tools to Analyze Cost and Benefits of Clean Household Energy Solutions
- Heather Adair-Rohani, Technical Lead on Energy and Health, WHO
- Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO
Launch of New Cost-Benefit Analysis Tool for Policymakers
Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution (BAR-HAP) Tool (Overview, Training, Questions & Answers)
- Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Transition to Clean Cooking: Country Case Studies
Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of a 16% VAT on the Improved Cooking Sector in Kenya
- Marc Jeuland, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; Co-Founder, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative
Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Different Cooking Technology Transitions for Two Cities (Nairobi & Kathmandu)
- Ipsita Das, Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University
Q&A
- Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance
Confirmed Speakers
Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance Ms. Julie Ipe co-leads CCA's market development program, with a focus on activities related to behavior change, gender, policy, and market intelligence. She previously oversaw CCA’s behavior change communication program, which included consumer-facing mass media and community-based communication campaigns that reached over 40 million people. Julie came to CCA from the Energy and Climate team at the United Nations Foundation. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant specialized in NGO management and strategy. |  |
Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO Dr. Maria Neira is since 2005, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to WHO, she was Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency and she obtained extensive field experience in Africa as a Public Health Adviser. |  |
Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO Dr. Jessica Lewis is a Technical Officer in the Air Quality and Health Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO). She coordinates the development of the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST) and provides technical expertise to countries for implementation of the WHO Guidelines on indoor air quality. |  |
Heather Adair-Rohani, Technical Lead on Energy and Health, WHO Ms. Heather Adair-Rohani leads the work on energy and health at the World Health Organization Headquarters. She has led the establishment of the Health and Energy Platform of Action, and the High-level Coalition on Health and Energy. Ms. Adair-Rohani co-led the coordination and development of the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion and is currently overseeing the work to support countries in the implementation of these Guidelines through the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit. She also actively participates and represents WHO at various global initiatives focused on health, air pollution and energy like UN Energy, Sustainable Energy for All, Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, and the Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescent Health.
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Marc Jeuland, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University & Co-founder, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative Mr. Marc Jeuland is an Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, with a joint appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute. His research interests include nonmarket valuation, water and sanitation, environmental health, energy poverty and transitions, trans-boundary water resource planning and management, and the impacts and economics of climate change. He has conducted multiple field experiments on issues such as the demand for and impacts of cleaner cookstoves on household well-being. He is also engaged with several projects with the Energy Access Project at Duke and is a co-founder of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI). |  |
Ipsita Das, Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University Ms. Ipsita Das is a Research Scientist at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. Her prior and ongoing research includes understanding drivers of environmental health behavior adoption, impacts of improved and clean energy on household welfare, and cost-benefit analyses of and willingness to pay for clean cooking. Ipsita has substantial experience implementing experimental and quasi-experimental studies in South and South-East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Policy from Duke University. |  |
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