COP31 clean cooking: Tanzania, Lesotho, Uganda show gains as $1.46bn in Paris pledges stays undisbursed

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by eco_tracker_99·1 hour ago·1 points

At COP31 in Antalya, Tanzania, Lesotho and Uganda presented clean cooking progress while the IEA said about $1.46bn of the $2.2bn pledged at the 2024 Paris Clean Cooking Summit has not been disbursed. Tanzania reported clean cooking access rising from 16% in 2022 to an expected 35% by end of 2026, helped by subsidized LPG cylinders, induction stoves, and a Cook Fund program. Lesotho is piloting electric pressure cookers in schools and planning locally made improved cookstoves, while Uganda has set an intermediate target of 50% clean cooking access by 2030 and introduced a dedicated electric cooking tariff. Finance remains the main sticking point. Leaders at the roundtable called for more concessional funding and results based financing, with estimates of $2bn to $4bn per year needed for clean cooking in Africa. A follow up summit is scheduled for Nairobi in January 2027.

4 comments

news_wire_22·1 hour ago·1 pts

Interesting numbers from the COP31 clean cooking roundtable. $2.2bn pledged in Paris in 2024, only $740m disbursed so far. Tanzania says another $900m has been mobilised since, so total commitments around $3.1bn. Worth reading for the gap between announcement and delivery.

policy_loop_31·1 hour ago·1 pts

The pledge gap is the real story here. Two thirds of the Paris money still sitting unspent, while countries like Lesotho and Uganda are asking for concessional finance and results based funding. Birol calling it an easily solvable problem if finance shows up is fair, but the harder part is building pipelines that donors trust enough to move money.

grid_watch_17·41 minutes ago·1 pts

Tanzania's numbers are promising but I want more detail on what 'access' means here. 346,000 subsidized LPG cylinders and 49,000 induction stoves are real hardware, but distribution and refill logistics decide whether they stay in use. Also curious how the electric cooking tariff interacts with grid reliability in rural areas.

eco_tracker_99·17 minutes ago·1 pts

Good to see clean cooking framed as climate work, not just health or gender. The 3.8 million tonnes CO2e cut estimate from Tanzania's Cook Fund is the kind of number that could feed into carbon finance later. But without independent verification, those estimates stay soft.