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WHY SOLAR COOKING?
1 in 3 people in the world cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fueled by kerosene, coal, and garbage, resulting in negative health and environmental consequences.
Solar cookers offer a sustainable and powerful solution to those challenges because they have no emissions and use free solar energy for cooking and water pasteurization.
Solar cooking allows people to breathe cleaner air and drink safer water; prevents greenhouse emissions; and protects biodiversity, habitats, and forests.
One solar cooker can provide 15 years+ of benefits. Estimates show over 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are prevented over the lifetime of the current solar cookers identified around the globe. These emissions are equal to not driving over 76 billion miles.
Countries can save millions, even billions of dollars annually, through avoided health and environmental costs by incorporating solar cooking. If everyone currently cooking using polluting fuels used solar cookers ¼ of the time, over 1 trillion dollars could be saved annually across the globe.
SCI focused efforts in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, beginning in early 2019 to impact over 1,900 refugees and avoid over 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide with solar cooking by 2022. Local female solar cooking champions conduct training with ongoing monitoring and evaluation, along with follow-up and support to ensure the successful use of solar cookers.
SOLAR COOKERS INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Solar Cookers International obtained special consultative status with the United Nations in 1996, and volunteer UN representatives work with the civil society and ECOSOC to promote solar cooking as a 'quick fix' to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
2002 awarded the Ashden Award for their work with solar cookers in Kenya.
2006 awarded the esteemed World Renewable Energy Award.
2021 awarded the Keeling Curve Prize, which recognizes “the most impactful climate projects around the world.” SCI is one of ten winners selected from approximately 400 applicants from around the world after a rigorous evaluation.
With over 35 years of experience, Solar Cookers International continues its vital work to build sustainable field projects, advocate globally, connect Solar Cookers International partners, and educate the world about the benefits and importance of solar cooking.