Increasing Access to Clean Cooking in the Philippines: Challenges and Prospects

By Asian Development Bank

In Asia and the Pacific, 1.8 billion people still rely on traditional cooking methods using fires and solid fuels. The wider uptake of cleaner cooking solutions is vital for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 7 objective of universal access to modern, affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy. It is also important for the environment and human health. This publication presents the results of a study on household cooking practices in the Philippines and provides insights and recommendations to encourage clean cooking in the country. The findings identify policy, information, technology, and financing gaps that must be addressed to boost the development and market expansion of clean cooking technologies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Release date: Feb 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9789292626969

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INCREASING ACCESS TO CLEAN COOKING IN THE PHILIPPINES

CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

FEBRUARY 2021

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ISBN 978-92-9262-695-2 (print); 978-92-9262-696-9 (electronic); 978-92-9262-697-6 (ebook)

Publication Stock No. TCS210018-2

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS210018-2

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Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Foreword

The role of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in advancing the goals of the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) initiative in Asia and the Pacific includes facilitating opportunities for growth of investments that will speed up the sustainable transformation of the world’s energy landscape. Through knowledge and information exchange, leveraging of existing energy structures, and mobilizing and consolidating efforts of development partners, it is hoped that a more conducive policy environment will be developed to further accelerate the development of a more ecologically sustainable energy future.

The report Increasing Access to Clean Cooking in the Philippines: Challenges and Prospects was prepared in keeping with ADB’s continuing efforts to maximize its support to the global aspiration of energy for all and to strengthen its investments and increase its project portfolio in the area of energy access under its Energy for All (E4ALL) Initiative. Moreover, as the leading partner and host of the Asia–Pacific SEforALL hub, the publication of this report signifies in concrete terms ADB’s support to the goals of SEforALL and that of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) of universal access to modern, affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy for all.

Specifically, the report documents the results of intensive research, survey, and investigation of Philippine cooking practices with the aim of providing an on-the-ground perspective of the issues and potential solutions relating to access to clean cooking. Through this report, ADB also hopes to add to the knowledge about the impact of continued use of traditional cookstoves that use charcoal and fuelwood to households in terms of exposure to household air pollutants, and the associated challenges to be hurdled in order to institute the desired changes and contribute to the achievement of SDG 7 and other associated SDGs by 2030.

The conduct of this research on access to clean cooking is an initiative of the Sector Advisory Service