Coldrey, O., Lant, P., Ashworth, P., LaRocco, P., & Eibs Singer, C. (2024). Reforming Climate and Development Finance for Clean Cooking. Energies 17 (15) e3720. 10.3390/en17153720.
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Abstract
A transition to clean fuels and technology for cooking is increasingly recognised as a cornerstone of sustainable development. However, sufficient, appropriate, affordable finance to support the transition is lacking. Grounded in primary data collection via expert interviews, this study’s research objective was to critically assess development finance institutions’ (DFIs) delivery of climate and development finance to address cooking poverty. Interview findings underscore DFIs’ important role in the transition, including to create the ecosystem conditions conducive to sustained investment. However, as a group they are not demonstrating the risk appetite and financial solutions that clean cooking markets need. Nor are they operating with the agility and flexibility required for rapid scale-up. Consequently, DFIs are not optimally fulfilling their mandates to create additionality and mobilise private capital in these markets. Interviewees call for DFIs to reconsider their approach, and we rely on these findings to posit a theory of change for clean cooking finance.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | clean cooking; climate finance; development finance; development finance institutions; energy poverty; energy transition; Sustainable Development Goal 7 |
Research Programs: | Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) > Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS) |
Depositing User: | Luke Kirwan |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2024 07:12 |
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2024 07:12 |
URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/19941 |
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