Building Evidence to Unlock Impact Finance: A Field Assessment of Clean Cooking Co-benefits for Climate, Health, and Gender

2023

Building Evidence to Unlock Impact Finance: A Field Assessment of Clean Cooking Co-benefits for Climate, Health, and Gender

In the clean cooking sector, the successful application of Results-Based Financing (RBF) instruments has been observed for the climate co-benefit, where the market for averted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has enjoyed strong performance; however, supplementing GHG emission-reduction credits with tradeable assets from clean cooking’s additional co-benefits requires developing rigorous methods and tools that can be confidently applied on a wide scale.