The Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial district and Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Bukola Saraki is set to join former U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton and other members of the Clean Cook Stove Alliance Leadership Council, in New York at the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves Future Summit to be hosted by the United Nations Foundation.
Holding on November 20 and 21, other world leaders expected at the event include; U.K. Under-Secretary of State, Lynne Featherstone; Norwegian Foreign Minister, Børge Brende; Ghanaian Foreign Minister, Hanna Tetteh; and US Administrator for the Agency of International Development, Rajiv Shah.
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private partnership hosted by the United Nations Foundation to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.
The Alliance’s 100 by 2020 goals calls for 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient cook stoves and fuels by 2020. The Alliance is working with its public, private and non-profit partners to help overcome the market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment, and use of clean cook stoves and fuels in developing countries.
Saraki, who will be giving an assessment of the use and effect of clean cook stoves in Nigeria at the Summit will again be advocating fervently for a safe cooking environment in Nigeria and other developing countries to minimize health challenges that originate from poor cooking facilities and environment.(Vanguard)
