Sustainable Energy for Rural Household Cooking in Developing Countries

Abstract

Energy consumption is a common phenomenon for today's world, but access to modern energy has become a fundamental issue for development and poverty reduction for developing countries. According to Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all has been set as a global agenda to achieve because of its significant demand (ESCAP SDG7). Sustainable energy is a form of energy that meets our daily demand producing using ingredients such as sunlight, wind, etc. rather than using fossil fuel or coal that has high risk of getting expired or depleted, and sustainable energy can be used repeatedly. Sustainable energy for cooking is one of the biggest determinants for environmental impacts. When it comes to sustainability, the often genderspecific hazards to health and the threats to the economy and the environment caused by cooking on open fires or inefficient cook stoves with wood, charcoal, dung, and coal are some of the most burning issues that the international community needs to tackle in order to enable the poor all over the world to improve their living conditions (GIZ 2013).