30 September 2012: The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has published their latest newsletter, highlighting accomplishments in strengthening markets for clean cookstoves and fuels.

The Alliance celebrated its second year anniversary during an event in New York, on 24 September 2012, with more than 300 partners and guests. The second-year report was released during the event, detailing progress in areas including market development, research, outreach, standards and testing, resource mobilization.

The newsletter also focuses on the 2013 Forum on Clean cookstoves and fuels, which will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 18-22 March. This four-day event will bring together more than 400 stakeholders from the clean cookstoves and fuels sectors, as well as related disciplines, to further the development of market-based solutions to foster the global adoption of clean cooking solutions. The Forum will focus on methods to drive innovations in research, market development, standards and testing, policy development, and other topics. The Alliance will be offering a limited number of travel scholarships for conference attendees from developing countries.

The newsletter also profiles Alliance partner Envirofit International. Envirofit International designed its first cookstove for a pilot programme in India between 2008-2009 selling over 400,000 stoves in less than four years. Envirofit offers a product line of durable clean energy cookstoves that are culturally adaptable, affordable and aesthetically pleasing.

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a UN Foundation-led public-private partnership to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. [Publication: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Newsletter]