Energy has been called the “golden thread” that connects economic growth, social equity
and environmental sustainability, but important knowledge gaps exist on the impacts of low …

Clean energy promises a wide range of individual and collective benefits. Though there is
substantial research on the benefits of clean energy for specific populations, systematic …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

Universal clean cooking is a key target under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, with
implications for several other SDGs, such as good health, gender equality and climate. Yet …

Cookstove carbon offset projects can progress multiple Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), including climate, energy, health, gender, poverty and deforestation. However …

The use of solid fuels stoves contributes to a range of adverse health and social outcomes
and can impact regional and global climate. Reducing these impacts requires both adoption …

Three billion people around the world lack access to affordable and reliable clean cooking
energy. The case for clean energy has largely been built around health and or …

Ninety-five per cent of Indian households now have access to liquified petroleum gas (LPG),
with 80 million acquiring it under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) since 2016 …

High hopes are pinned on market-based dissemination of off-grid technologies to
complement expensive grid extension in providing electricity to the nearly 1 billion …

We study an energy efficient charcoal cookstove in an experiment with 1,000 households in
Nairobi. We estimate a 39 percent reduction in charcoal spending, which matches …