The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is an innovative public-private partnership led by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. The Alliance’s 100 by 20 goal calls for 100 million homes to adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020. The Alliance works with public, private, and non-profit partners to help overcome the market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in the developing world.
In an unprecedented and coordinated effort to address this challenge, the U.S. announced an initial commitment to this issue and to solving it at a global scale: more than $50 million over the first five years. Every U.S. federal agency that was part of the original commitment to the Alliance – Department of State, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE), Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – is meeting or exceeding their commitments towards diplomacy, applied research, capacity building, stove testing, and field implementation and evaluation. At the one year mark, the U.S. announced up to an additional $55 million for the Alliance, bringing the total commitment to up to $105 million.
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