Following yesterday's High-Level Event on
#CleanCooking at the 81st
@UN General Assembly, the first ever held in the Assembly's history, bringing together 100 participants, a few things stood out to James Rockall, our
@WorldLiquidGas CEO, from the room.
Speakers framed the issue as one of humanity's most pressing yet solvable problems: a quarter of the world still lacks access, and no new technology is required to close that gap.
The
@IEA's Dr
@fbirol identified
#LPG as the main solution, contrasting the USD 2.2 billion pledged in Paris in 2024 with the USD 740 million disbursed so far, against an annual need of roughly USD 2 billion. He also addressed concerns over LPG emissions directly, noting that the carbon sink lost to
#deforestation is far greater.
Several concrete commitments followed:
🔹 The
@WorldBankGroup has put USD 500 million into clean cooking through Mission 300, and will present an ambitious plan at the next Clean Cooking Summit in Nairobi in January.
🔹 The
@AfDB_Group committed USD 2 billion over ten years.
🔹 Türkiye agreed to include clean cooking in
@turkiyecop31.
🔹 Ireland pledged €340 million.
🔹 Nigeria doubled its target to 10 million households switched to LPG.
🔹 Dr Birol committed to raising this issue at
@Davos.
Recurring themes throughout: the need for technology neutrality, embedding clean cooking in national budgets, placing women at the centre of solutions, de-risking private capital, and measuring success by sustained use rather than dollars spent.
Watch the replay:
iea.org/events/high-level-ev…
#UNGA81 #COP31 #LPG #LiquidGas