International donor projects to boost clean cooking were fragmented, often short-term and tended to focus on single countries and technologies, she added. Last month, at a UN climate summit, the bank unveiled plans for a $500-million "Clean Cooking Fund", supported by the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Britain. Private-sector finance for clean cooking showed "green shoots", with investment rising to about $21 million in 2017 and accounting for two-thirds of all funding. Kenya grabbed the lion's share, at more than 60%, of all commitments for clean cooking that year. Coldrey and Buchner urged development banks to work on strategies for large-scale programmes needed to close the clean cooking gap.

Source: bd News24 October 21, 2019 23:03 UTC