"Regional Roadmap to Increase the Use of Clean Fuels and Technologies for Cooking in Latin America and the Caribbean."
This roadmap addresses the pressing challenge of the approximately 73 million people in the region who still lack access to clean cooking solutions, relying instead on polluting fuels that cause significant health, environmental, and socio-economic impacts. If current trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) will see little progress toward SDG 7.1.2, with about 70 million people still lacking access to clean cooking.
The session will emphasize the need for a focused, region-specific approach—moving beyond fragmented efforts toward a coordinated strategy tailored to the diverse contexts of LAC. This is essential to truly move the needle and achieve universal access to clean cooking.
The roadmap’s objectives are to identify key barriers, draw on the core strengths of the LAC energy sector, leverage best practices, and outline strategic pathways for a sustainable transition to clean cooking. It presents policy recommendations, technological interventions, and financing mechanisms designed to accelerate access, adoption, and sustained use of clean cooking solutions. The ultimate goal is to further socio-economic development by improving public health, foster gender equity, creating jobs and advance environmental sustainability across the region while tackling a key source of energy poverty.
