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Clean Cooking Initiative

Clean Cooking: Advancing Health and Sustainability with Modern Technologies

Food is a basic necessity, the elemental source of life, nourishing and energizing our being. However, a basic necessity like that is a war fought by millions worldwide, every single day.

We decided that we can let it happen no more…Because clean cooking is a prerogative, not a privilege. Even the underprivileged deserve smoke-free nutrition and enough time left for education and other productive work. Even if they are in the remotest of deserts, the trickiest of terrains, or the highest of mountains, we take clean cooking to them.

Why Clean Cooking?

Traditional Cooking

Nearly 2.3 billion people (1/3 of the global population) cook using open fires or fueled by kerosene, biomass, and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution.

Indoor Pollution Kills

In 2020, household air pollution led to an estimated 3.2 million deaths annually, including over 237,000 deaths among children under five.

Combination is Lethal

The combined impact of ambient and household air pollution results in approximately 6.7 million premature deaths each year.

Huge Emissions

Traditional stoves produce more than 1 giga tonnes of carbon emission in a year.

Health Problems

Exposure to household air pollution is linked to noncommunicable diseases such as stroke, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer.

Fuelling Gender Discrimination

Women and children, often responsible for household chores like cooking and gathering firewood, bear the greatest health burden from the use of polluting fuels and technologies in homes.

Killing the Forests

Between 2015 and 2020, nearly 10 million hectares of forests were lost per year, a lot of the contribution being from firewood requirement for polluting cooking.

Not Enough Talk

Indoor exposure to air pollutants causes significant health damage worldwide, particularly in developing countries and yet public awareness of indoor air pollution lags behind that of outdoor air pollution.

Solutions by EKI

Clean cooking is a prerogative, not a privilege. Even if they are in the remotest of deserts, the trickiest of terrains, or the highest of mountains, we take clean cooking to them, with two major weapons at our disposal.

Clean cooking has transformative social benefits. It significantly reduces the time women and children spend collecting fuel, allowing more time for education and economic activities. Additionally, clean cooking projects create job opportunities in manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance of cooking technologies.

Success Story: In Kenya, our clean cooking initiative has empowered over 10,000 households, providing women with the opportunity to engage in income-generating activities and attend school.

Clean cooking has transformative social benefits. It significantly reduces the time women and children spend collecting fuel, allowing more time for education and economic activities. Additionally, clean cooking projects create job opportunities in manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance of cooking technologies.

 

Success Story: In Kenya, our clean cooking initiative has empowered over 10,000 households, providing women with the opportunity to engage in income-generating activities and attend school.

Environmental Benefits

Reduction in firewood usage in traditional mudstove, fighting deforestation and unsustainable harvesting

GHG emission reduction, enabling climate change mitigation

Wildlife/biodiversity protection

Social Benefits

Improved health by reduction in smoke in the kitchens especially for women and children

Empowering women by freeing up more time otherwise invested in collecting firewood and speeding-up cooking

Improved women safety by avoiding their obligation to go to remote forest areas to collect firewood

Employment opportunities in rural areas

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Innovative and affordable cook stove that reduces carbon emissions by over 80% and aims to improve the health and environment

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Surya Nutan

Developed and patented by IOCL, these revolutionary indoor solar cooking devices are manufactured by us in our Nashik facility.

02.
Oorja Biogas

The Oorja biogas project integrates IoT sensors for real-time environmental monitoring, promoting sustainable agriculture through renewable energy and efficiency.

03.
Electric Stove

The Oorja induction cookstove provides clean, efficient cooking by using advanced technology, reducing emissions, and eliminating the need for firewood.

04.

Carbon Finance for Clean Cooking

  • Carbon finance turns the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from clean cooking projects into monetary value.
  • By leveraging carbon credits, investments can be channeled into projects that provide cleaner, more efficient cooking technologies to households, particularly in rural and underserved areas.
  • By accurately measuring and verifying these reductions, projects can generate carbon credits with integrity, which can then be sold to companies and governments seeking to offset their emissions.
  • This system creates a financial incentive for adopting clean cooking technologies, making them more affordable and accessible to a wider population.

FAQs

Find answers to common questions about clean cooking technologies and their benefits.

  • Improved Combustion Efficiency: These technologies burn fuel more completely than traditional stoves, reducing the release of carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), and other harmful pollutants.
  • Reduced Fuel Consumption: Clean cookstoves require less fuel to cook the same amount of food, thereby lowering overall emissions from cooking activities.
  • Cleaner Fuels: Many clean cooking solutions use cleaner fuels such as biogas, ethanol, or electricity instead of biomass (wood, charcoal, crop residue). These fuels emit fewer pollutants and greenhouse gases compared to traditional biomass.
  • Lower Particulate Emissions: Traditional cooking methods produce high levels of particulate matter (PM), contributing to air pollution. Clean cookstoves are designed to minimize particulate emissions, improving air quality and reducing health risks.
  • Sustainable Biomass Use: When biomass is used, it is often processed more efficiently or sustainably sourced, reducing the impact on deforestation and land degradation, thus lowering net carbon emissions.
  • Advocate for Policy Change: Support policies and legislation that encourage the adoption of clean cooking technologies. Engage with policymakers, sign petitions, and participate in advocacy campaigns.
  • Volunteer: Offer your time and skills to organizations working on clean cooking projects. This can include fieldwork, research, fundraising, or community outreach activities.
  • Invest: Contribute financially to organizations and projects that promote clean cooking technologies in developing regions. Your investment can help fund the distribution of clean cookstoves and the development of sustainable fuel sources, as well as offset your emissions.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility: If you are part of a business, integrate clean cooking initiatives into your corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. Support projects that provide clean cookstoves and sustainable fuels to communities.

Primarily, women and children benefit the most as they are often the ones responsible for cooking in many households. Clean cooking reduces their exposure to harmful smoke, improves health, saves time spent collecting fuel, and enhances overall quality of life.

Clean cooking reduces deforestation, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and decreases indoor and outdoor air pollution. It also helps in conserving biodiversity by reducing the reliance on wood and other biomass as fuel sources.

Clean cooking initiatives contribute to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including good health and well-being, gender equality, affordable and clean energy, climate action, and sustainable cities and communities.

Challenges include high initial costs of clean cookstoves, lack of awareness, cultural resistance to change, inadequate infrastructure for distribution, and limited access to clean fuels. Which is why a huge part of our clean cooking initiative is raising awareness and running campaigns, along with the distribution of cookstoves.

Scaling up requires a multi-faceted approach, including increased funding, supportive policies, public-private partnerships, community engagement, and international cooperation. Enhancing market-based solutions and innovative financing mechanisms can also drive widespread adoption.

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