The Future of Africa’s Sustainable Cities: Why Clean Cooking Matters

African governments and city leaders are grappling with the complex challenges of climate change, pollution, nature loss, energy poverty, and inequality in rapidly growing cities across the continent. Prioritizing clean cooking can deliver a range of benefits across these critical focus areas and is essential for a just energy transition.

“The Future of Africa’s Sustainable Cities: Why Clean Cooking Matters” highlights the critical role that clean cooking must play in ensuring sustainable and equitable urban growth, with a particular focus on the fast-growing cities of sub-Saharan Africa. This report serves as a call to action for stakeholders to recognise that access to clean cooking in Africa’s cities is critical to meeting national, regional, and global climate targets and development goals.