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PATHWAYS TO CLEAN COOKING 2050
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 WEXFORD DECLARATION
Leaving no-one behind

We the undersigned:
 
Affirm that energy for cooking is essential for human wellbeing and that the nations of the world have committed to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all by 2030
 
Recognise that billions of people depend on wood and other biomass to cook their daily meals and that for many of them, particularly the rural poor, it will be the only fuel option available for decades to come
 
Note with great concern that across the world biomass continues to be burned inefficiently, in unvented and pollution-emitting devices that are globally responsible for four million avoidable deaths annually; for severe forest degradation in specific areas; and for the large-scale emission of greenhouse gases
 
Emphasise that wood and other biomass, when managed and treated properly and burned in efficient devices, can provide a low-emission, affordable, readily available, sustainable energy source
 
Underline that advances in biomass-burning devices, fuel processing, and distribution have demonstrated that biomass can be one of the cleanest energy options
 
Confirm that a diversity of solutions, including biomass options, is needed to satisfy the wide range of household energy needs and to achieve international goals on human health, environmental quality, climate change mitigation and energy justice
 
Assert that improving biomass options for cooking and other household energy services can be an effective climate, energy and gender strategy that can immediately enhance families’ health and wellbeing – especially for women and children – and can help preserve the world’s vital storehouses of carbon and biodiversity
 
Acknowledge that families regularly make parallel use of multiple devices and fuels for different types of cooking practices and other tasks, which is an approach known as ‘stacking’. Accordingly, we recommend holistic approaches to sustainable cooking that address all elements of the ‘stack’
 
Call urgently for the provision of the large-scale funding which is profoundly needed for the sustainable cooking sector and the expeditious fulfilment of existing funding pledges, which amount to hundreds of millions of dollars
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Call on organisations that fund climate change mitigation projects to prioritise those initiatives that provide immediate emissions reductions and social benefits through sustainable cooking to the communities most vulnerable to climate change
 
Call on citizens to help address this clean cooking challenge by using choices, as consumers, to support organisations or companies that lead the way. We further call on citizens to appeal to their elected representatives to urgently prioritise sustainable household energy in their health, climate and development policies
 
Call for a clarification of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 as it currently stands, to the effect that biomass and biomass-burning devices can meet the definition of clean fuels and stoves
 
Call for a sector-wide discussion to re-define sustainable energy indicators that are technology and fuel neutral and reflect true access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all
 
Commit to working towards universal access to sustainable energy for cooking and other household needs, and in so doing, we commit to building relationships with the full range of stakeholders, institutions, and disciplines necessary to achieve this goal
 
The Pathways Conference Participants - leaving no one behind
Organisations

​Irish Forum for Global Health, Ireland
Solid Biofuel Group, Mexico
Hestian Innovation, Malawi
GIRA, Mexico
TECA Stoves Mexico
NYDE, Mexico
PowerUp, Nigeria
Redes AC, Mexico
​Prolenha, Brazil
Ecofogão, Brazil
​Wood Heat Organisation, Canada
UDYAMA, Orissa, India
Nexleaf Analytics, USA
FARO, Peru
Ryan Institute NUIG, Ireland
Inyenyeri, Rwanda & USA
​Corporación Semillas de Agua, Columbia​
Bioenergy Network, Mexico
Sunfire Energy, Malawi
The Beam Magazine, Germany
BURN Stoves Kenya
Indian Network on Ethics & Climate Change, India
Prime Cookstoves, Indonesia
​Microsol, France
Mimi Moto B.V., Netherlands
​Dziwani Investments, Malawi
Gram Swaraj, Odisha, India
Otago PTE Ltd., Singapore
Khmer Green Charcoal Ltd, Cambodia
The Energy Action Project, France
Project Gaia Inc, USA
Vitalite Group, Zambia
Instituto Perene, Brazil
​Gaia Clean Energy, Ethiopia
Project Gaia Prospects, Nigeria
Proyecto Mirador, Honduras
Cool Effect, USA

Conscientización Socioecologica, Mexico
Colectivo PermaneSer, Mexico
Vita, Ireland
Brighter Communities, Ireland
Inkawasi Soluciones SAC, Peru

​Seed the Change | He Kākano Hāpai, New Zealand | Aotearoa
Sun24 Inc., USA

Juntos Energy Solutions, USA
Industrias Falcon, El Salvador
energypedia UG, Germany
​Community And Family Aid Foundation, Ghana
E-Moto Limited, Kenya
​Horse Power Ventures, Kenya
Grupo de Saneamento de Bilibiza, Mozambique 
Stoveteam, USA 

Burn Design Lab, USA
Emerging Cooking Solutions (Supamoto), Zambia
Individuals

Christa Roth, Food & Fuel Germany
Dr. Priya Karve, Samuchit, India
Dr. Tami Bond, Colorado University
​Dr. Omar Masera, UNAM
Juan Tinoco - Bioenergy Network, Mexico
Dr Victor Ruiz, Biomass Cookstove Innovation and Evaluation Centre, UNAM
Dr Marta Astier, UNAM
Sara
í Ramos Vargas, Institute of Ecology & Sustainability, UNAM
Jorge Emigdio Sánchez Pólito, UNAM
Julio Sacramento, Bioenergy Network, Mexico
​Luis Barahona, Centre Scientific Research Yucatan, Mexico
Dr. Jörg Peters, RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Reasearch, Germany
Verena Brinkmann - EnDev
Dr. Chrsitoph Messinger - EnDev
Dr. N K Labhsetwar, Chief Scientist, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute , India

Ana Laura Morales, UNAM
Svati Bhogle, TIDE, India
​Siddarth D'Souza, LAYA, India
Mbumba Chigalu, National Cookstove Steering Committee, Malawi
​Niall Roche, Ireland
Dr. Candela de la Sota Sández, Spain
Dr Enrique Riegelhaupt, Bioenergy Network Mexico
​Dr Kranthi Jonnalagadda, Cranfield Univeristy, UK
Dr Andrew Grieshop, North Carolina State University, USA
Dr Astrid Schilmann, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Tony Blake, Australia
Dr Veena Joshi, India
Katie Mahon, Ireland
​Fiona Lambe, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
​Ronald Ngwira, Pyxus Agriculture Ltd., Malawi
Dr. Mike Clifford, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr. Moliehi Shale, Lesotho
Dr. Rob Bailis, Stockholm Environment Institute, USA
Dr. Gabriel Castañeda Nolasco, National Lab for Housing & Sustainable Communities, Mexico
Senator Alice Mary Higgins, Ireland
Dr Nicholas Lam, Schatz Energy Research Center, USA
​Henderson Mawera, Malawi
Victor Cordero, Peru
Carlos Vargas, El Salvador
Dr. Marc Jeuland, Duke University
Paul Quigley, Ireland
Sergio Torres Morales, DUMAC, Mexico
Julien Jacquot, GERES, Belgium
Anake Goodall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand | Aotearoa
Gustavo Peña, El Salvador
Antonio Lecuona, Spain
Joseph Senyo Kwashie, Ghana
Ylva Kuerten, EnDev, Liberia
Konjit Negessu, Ethiopia
Euberto Licayan, Philippines
Prof Charles Spillane, Ireland
Dr. Carsten Hellpap, Germany

Wyatt Mark Champion, USA
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