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Solar Cooking – A cross-cutting solution crucial for advancing and implementing the 2030 Agenda and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and for building back better from COVID-19.

Solar Cookers International

Solar Cookers International (SCI) will showcase solar cooking as a cross-cutting solution crucial for advancing and implementing the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and for building back better from COVID-19. Solar cookers are appliances that use free solar energy and provide a viable and feasible option for clean cooking for vulnerable populations that primarily rely on polluting fuels for cooking. Solar cooking builds community resilience through many benefits with linkages to the SDGs.   

  • Families use free solar energy for cooking and water pasteurization.   
  • People breathe cleaner air and drink safer water.   
  • Cooking with solar energy reduces women’s and children’s exposure to violence when gathering biomass fuels.  
  • Women and children can gain up to 5 hours/day for quality education and time for work, empowering them for leadership roles.  
  • Solar cooking helps curb land degradation and desertification and helps preserve forests that sequester carbon which could lessen the burden on oceans to absorb excess carbon that warms the seas.  
  • Solar cooking technologies strengthen and empower community members, particularly women, to be change agents for revitalized, resilient and sustainable development.  
  • Solar cooking can be incorporated into all cultures and practices.     

Solar cooking advocates from diverse regions and sectors will spotlight evidence-based results, interlinkages to the SDGs, and how language in a Voluntary National Review can create an enabling environment for scaling solar cooking. SCI encourages policymakers to include and prioritize solar cooking in their national plans for clean cooking and energy access for all.

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