(AGENPARL) – mar 14 maggio 2024 Eni reaffirms its commitment to promoting improved cooking
systems at the IEA Clean Cooking Summit for Africa
The company pledges to distribute improved cookstoves to 10 million people in sub-Saharan
Africa by 2027, reaching 20 million people with advanced cooking solutions by 2030.
Paris (France), 14 May 2024 – Eni reaffirms its commitment to promoting improved cooking
systems on the occasion of the “Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa” organized by the
International Energy Agency (IEA). Eni has also endorsed the “Clean Cooking Declaration:
Making 2024 the pivotal year for Clean Cooking” to accelerate universal access to more
modern cooking systems, essential to ensure access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable
energy for all, as established by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7. The
declaration was signed by governments, the private sector, international organizations and
civil society who attended the Summit, taking place in Paris.
According to the International Energy Agency, around 1 billion people in Africa still cook their
meals through rudimentary cooking systems, breathing in the noxious smoke released by
combustion. The lack of access to Clean Cooking systems has significant health, social,
economic and environmental impacts, and contributes to 3.7 million premature deaths every
year, especially to the detriment of women and children.
Through this endorsement, Eni reiterates its commitment to continue promoting access to
more modern cooking systems in Africa, bringing benefits in terms of health, productivity,
gender equality, forest conservation, biodiversity and emissions reduction.
In 2018 Eni has launched a broad Clean Cooking program that involved to date around
500,000 people in Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Rwanda and Angola, and has set
itself the objective, made public on the occasion of the Summit, of reaching 10 million people
across sub-Saharan Africa by 2027. Furthermore, Eni intends to encourage the transition
from improved solutions, which guarantee a reduction of over 60% in woody biomass, to
advanced solutions, which are characterized by the total reduction of use of unsustainable
woody biomass. Following this evolution, the goal is to reach 20 million people by 2030, with
an associate spending of 300 M$.
Eni’s model is the result of company’s long experience in the continent and aims to
contribute to reducing the impact of cooking activities on deforestation and the negative
effects on people’s health. A distinctive of Eni’s model is that the cookstoves are distributed
free of charge, overcoming any financial barrier. Furthermore, to promote the development
of entrepreneurship and the economy of communities, Eni supports the local production of
cooking systems, by evaluating the potential of producers and contributing to strengthening
their technical and entrepreneurial skills, facilitating access to technology, capital and the
market. Finally, the distribution of the stoves takes place through local and international
organizations already present in the areas, which guarantee correct interaction with families
and raise their awareness of the benefits of clean cooking systems.
The distribution of improved cookstoves – whose efficiency is certified according to the
standards of the Clean Cooking Alliance – allows Eni to generate carbon credits used in line
with the company’s Net-Zero strategy, which envisages the achievement of carbon neutrality
by 2050 through the reduction of emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3) and the compensation of
residual emissions through high-quality carbon offset initiatives.
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