Webinar: Cost-Benefit Analyses of Clean Cooking Policies and Interventions:
Transitioning to Clean Cooking Webinar Series: Session 5

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Join us for the launch of a new state-of-the-art global tool (and the only resource currently available) developed by WHO, Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution, to conduct cost-benefit analyses of the transition to cleaner cooking. The tool includes 16 different cleaner cooking transitions from more polluting stoves and fuels to cleaner options, including both transitional options (that offer some health benefits) and clean options. The tool quantifies and monetizes fuel costs, time and learning costs and benefits, health benefits from avoided morbidity and mortality, social health benefits (incorporating household air pollution contributions to ambient pollution levels), and environmental benefits of reduced fuel harvesting and climate-forcing emissions.

In addition, the webinar will cover the work of the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) together with Duke University on cost benefit analysis of different cooking technology transitions, including specifically for two cities – Nairobi, Kenya and Kathmandu, Nepal. The analytic framework builds on a peer-reviewed cost-benefit model which was updated with support from the CCA, to incorporate new findings from the large number of recent evaluations of cookstove and clean fuel promotion interventions, also incorporating price changes to clean stoves and fuels (via subsidies). It provides countries with a much-needed resource to effectively plan a healthy energy transition. The household-level framework was recently adapted to consider a range of policy interventions and to be applicable to different geographic or administrative units (e.g. cities), accounting for spillovers across households and the contributions of cooking-related emissions to ambient pollution. Furthermore, to complement the findings from the tool, this event would also s provide experiences from in Kenya, analyzing the revenue gains for the government, impacts a shift is expected to have on stove and fuel companies, as well as monetized impact on households and society.

This event combining practical tools, with in country experiences will provide countries and other stakeholders with greater knowledge and know-how to tackle clean cooking as means of disease prevention.

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Agenda

Introduction

• Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance

Opening Remarks

• Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO

Presentation

Household Air Pollution and Health and New Tools to Analyze Cost and Benefits of Clean Household Energy Solutions

• Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO

Launch of New Cost-Benefit Analysis Tool for Policymakers

Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution (BAR-HAP) Tool (Overview, Training, Questions & Answers)

• Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO
• Marc Jeuland, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; Co-Founder, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative
• Ipsita Das, Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Transition to Clean Cooking: Country Case Studies  

Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of a 16% VAT on the Improved Cooking Sector in Kenya

• Marc Jeuland, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; Co-Founder, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative

Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Different Cooking Technology Transitions for Two Cities (Nairobi & Kathmandu)

• Ipsita Das, Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University

Q&A  

• Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance

 

Confirmed Speakers

Julie Ipe, Senior Director for Market Strengthening, Clean Cooking Alliance Ms. Julie Ipe co-leads CCA’s market development program, with a focus on activities related to behavior change, gender, policy, and market intelligence. She previously oversaw CCA’s behavior change communication program, which included consumer-facing mass media and community-based communication campaigns that reached over 40 million people. Julie came to CCA from the Energy and Climate team at the United Nations Foundation. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant specialized in NGO management and strategy.
Dr. Maria Neira, Director, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO  Dr. Maria Neira is since 2005, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to WHO, she was Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency and she obtained extensive field experience in Africa as a Public Health Adviser.
Dr. Jessica Lewis, Technical Officer on Air Quality and Health, WHO Dr. Jessica Lewis is a Technical Officer in the Air Quality and Health Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO). She coordinates the development of the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST) and provides technical expertise to countries for implementation of the WHO Guidelines on indoor air quality.
Marc Jeuland, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University & Co-founder, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative Mr. Marc Jeuland is an Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, with a joint appointment in the Duke Global Health Institute. His research interests include nonmarket valuation, water and sanitation, environmental health, energy poverty and transitions, trans-boundary water resource planning and management, and the impacts and economics of climate change. He has conducted multiple field experiments on issues such as the demand for and impacts of cleaner cookstoves on household well-being. He is also engaged with several projects with the Energy Access Project at Duke and is a co-founder of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI).
Ipsita Das, Research Scientist, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University Ms. Ipsita Das is a Research Scientist at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. Her prior and ongoing research includes understanding drivers of environmental health behavior adoption, impacts of improved and clean energy on household welfare, and cost-benefit analyses of and willingness to pay for clean cooking. Ipsita has substantial experience implementing experimental and quasi-experimental studies in South and South-East Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Policy from Duke University.

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Useful Resources & Links

• • Benefits of action to reduce household air pollution (BAR-HAP) tool
  • Duke University
  • Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA)

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