The advocacy for a shift to clean cooking is part of the recommendations towards limiting emissions and climate change impacts in developing countries like Nigeria. Over 95,000-recorded deaths have been linked to smoke from firewood cooking in Nigeria, but clean cook stoves offer cleaner, safer and healthier alternatives. The experts said clean cooking that include fuel efficient biomass cookstoves (wood and charcoal), LPG cooking appliances, ethanol stoves, complementary cookware and electric & induction cooking solutions are climate friendly cooking solutionsNigeria can scale quickly, credibly, at household level and urged the government to prioritise support for investors in the manufacturing of clean stoves and position Nigeria towards attainment of 2030 universal clean cooking access target. Speaking at a media roundtable entitled: “Unlocking Nigeria’s clean cooking future: Carbon markets, tax policy and local manufacturing” organised by Burn Manufacturing Nigeria, the Country Manager, Burn Manufacturing Nigeria, Etulan Ikpoki, said “Clean cooking is one of the few climate solutions Nigeria can scale quickly, credibly, and at household level. He welcomed the government’s leadership in putting policy frameworks in place that support credible carbon markets and clean energy investment.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2026 11:15 UTC