MECS
organised and participated in a diverse range of exciting events with their partners
at COP27. A rolling list of the events is
provided below:
Saturday 12th November 2022
The
Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS)
programme, funded by UK Aid (FCDO), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) co-organised a clean cooking themed
session in the SDG7 Pavilion at COP27. The session ‘The Twin Opportunity: Electricity Spurring a Clean e-Cooking
Transition’, was held on Saturday 12th November 2022 from 10.30-13:00 EET.
This session Brought together
utilities, high-level government representatives, development banks and
philanthropies to discuss how a pivot to eCooking (cooking with electricity)
can leverage the investments made in infrastructure improvements to rapidly
expand levels of cooking with electricity. The session will also highlight the
urgent need to decarbonise and mitigate the devastating consequences of the
climate crisis and how eCooking can be integrated into emerging processes of
integrated energy planning.
Wednesday 9th November 2022
The
Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA) and MECS co-organised a joint
side event in the Health Pavilion at COP27. The session ‘Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA): Tackling the
health-energy-climate nexus through increased capacity, finance and actions on
the ground to accelerate clean cooking’, was held on
Wednesday 9th November 2022 from 15:30-18:15 EET.
This side event had showcased concrete actions, projects and programmes that HEPA partners are
implementing on the ground to improve clean household energy within the most
vulnerable communities. A variety of HEPA partners working on health and energy
issues have committed to accelerate action towards clean cooking and will share
practical experience in various countries and regions. Furthermore, speakers will
highlight examples on how to tackle issues linked to household energy and show
how governments, Ministries, other decision makers and stakeholders can be
supported sustainably and successfully.
Watch
the Recoded Live Stream of the day: https://youtu.be/sWEW2NuT9uM
Join MECS for the following side events organised by Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme
Monday 7th November 2022
The
Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS)
programme was chairing a side event hosted by the Climate Compatible Growth
(CCG) programme (also in STEER) entitled “Scaling
Electric Cooking as Part of Decarbonization Strategies” The Kenyan eCooking
strategy’ on Monday 7th November 2022 at 17:30-18:30 EET.
There
is growing international recognition of the incredible potential of electric
cooking to provide a rapidly scaleable alternative to polluting (in both health
and carbon terms) cooking fuels. This session will outline the first fruits
from an agenda for collaborative work between CCG and MECS in understanding the
implications of different scenarios for the scaling of eCooking on overall
electricity demand, grid stability, and decarbonization strategies. It will
draw heavily on the work of both programmes in Kenya.
Tuesday 8th November 2022
MECS
is also Spoken at a side event chaired by Yacob Mulugetta (UCL) and hosted by
the CCG programme entitled ‘LCEDN at the
COP: Voices from the frontline’ on Tuesday 8 November 2022
at 18:30-19:30 EET.
This was a roundtable discussion session featured a range of speakers who has
been involved in official negotiation sessions and other high-level planning
prior to COP and official side events. The discussion was targeted at LCEDN
members unable to attend COP in order to give an in-person perspective from
those involved in the discussions/negotiations over the key evolving issues,
points of convergence/divergence, etc.
Wednesday 9th November 2022
The
Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme has chaired another side event
hosted by Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) programme entitled ‘Financing Low-Carbon Cooking’ on
Wednesday 9 November 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EET.
Building
on the preceding session, this session focused on attention onto the specifics of
funding the transition to low-carbon cooking. Drawing on the MECS programme’s
work on the clean cooking financial landscape, the session focused on:
leveraging electrification funding for eCooking; results-based and impact funding;
patient equity; and the promise and perils of climate finance.
