6 November 2012: The November newsletter from the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves features the Alliance’s new stove performance inventory, and reports on its first in-country stakeholder meeting on the Ghana Country Action Plan. Other features include the Alliance’s Clean Fuels Strategy, media highlights, new partners and colleagues, calls for regional consultants and upcoming events.

The Newsletter notes that the first stakeholder meeting in Ghana discussed the implementation of the Ghana Country Action Plan for Clean Cooking, launched during the meeting as part of the UN Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative. The plan focuses on five areas: government advocacy, entrepreneurship, quality and performance improvement, appropriate technology, and fuel production and supply.

The Alliance’s Stove Performance Inventory contains data from over 600 sets of laboratory and field-based cookstove performance tests. The inventory includes various metrics including emissions, indoor air pollution, efficiency, and fuel use. A detailed report is available on the Alliance’s website.

The newsletter also highlights the Clean Cooking Forum, to be held on 18-22 March 2012, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and notes a number of new grants, including a US$2 million Alliance Spark Fund to support entrepreneurs, and a US$9 million investment in Clean Star Mozambique by the Soros Economic Development Fund and the International Fund for Developing Countries. [Publication: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Newsletter, November 2012]