The Global electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo) is comprised of eCooking advocates who work alongside other existing global and national initiatives promoting higher-tier cooking transitions by providing leadership, integration, knowledge, and funding that is exclusively focused on the rapid global scaling of electric cooking. The coalition represents a working group of international partners including country governments, and provides a platform for engagement to unify work, avoid duplication and optimise output quality.
GeCCo will work with countries who express a specific interest in transitioning to eCooking at scale to:
i. Drive the demand/usage of electricity for cooking – delivering both enhanced access to clean cooking and healthier power suppliers at all scales, thereby increasing their capacity to deliver access.
ii. Bridge the gap in clean cooking access by providing a powerful new aspirational choice for consumers of different types.
iii. Raise the level of political ambition for accelerating the rapid adoption of eCooking solutions via clear and consistent messaging about its advantages.
iv. Support accelerated improvement in households’ tiers of access – delivering affordable access to eCooking is also important to allow those already accessing improved cookstoves to transition to stoves that provide greater health, climate, and social benefits.
v. Support decarbonisation of households and institutions by shifting them from biomass, with its associated contribution to deforestation and toxic emissions (CO2 and black carbon) whilst ensuring that electric cooking is promoted alongside power sector decarbonisation, thereby avoiding problematic lock-in to fossil fuel-based cooking fuels.