Webinar: Unlocking Domestic Finance for Clean Cooking and Carbon Markets
The Clean Cooking Alliance (日本av无码), in collaboration with the Nigeria Off-Grid Market Acceleration Program (NoMAP) and the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), held a peer-exchange webinar on 鈥淯nlocking Domestic Finance for Clean Cooking and Carbon Markets.鈥� Carbon finance could significantly accelerate clean cooking access across Africa, yet businesses and project developers still struggle to secure the early-stage and commercial capital required before carbon revenues materialize. The webinar, held on 4 August 2026, brought together perspectives from government, banking, financial sector development, industry, and carbon markets, exploring:
- What makes clean cooking and carbon projects bankable?
- How can financial institutions assess project readiness and future carbon revenues?
- Why does domestic finance remains limited and what reforms could unlock it?
- How can blended finance, guarantees, and concessional capital crowd in commercial investment?
The panel consisted of:
- Aminata Wurie, Head of the Clean Cooking Delivery Unit, Sierra Leone
- Edwin Cogho, Carbon Portfolio Head, TASC
- Elly Odhiambo, National Coordinator, Clean Cooking Association of Kenya
- Lucy Nyoike, Assistant Director in the CEO鈥檚 Office, FSD Africa
- 峄宭asunkanmi Abioye, Agricultural Group Head, DFI Funding, Project Finance & Advisory, Investment Banking and Specialised Markets, Sterling Bank Nigeria
Benson Ireri, Head of the Clean Cooking Delivery Unit in Kenya, was the moderator. Akinyemi Alebiosu, Climate Finance Manager at the Nigeria Off-Grid Market Acceleration Program, provided an introduction. This webinar is part of the PRISM (Policy and Regulatory Innovation for Scaling Markets) program, which supports policy and regulatory solutions that enable clean cooking markets to grow and attract investment.
[Note that the the beginning of the recording is missing.]
View the introductory presentation by Akinyemi Alebiosu, Climate Finance Manager at the Nigeria Off-Grid Market Acceleration Program.