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Priscilla Song demonstrates solar cooking to the Commonwealth Relations Manager for Cameroon in 2022. Photo credit: Priscilla Song

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COP30 logo, 10-30-25
  • NEW:  10-21 November 2025 (Belém, Brazil):The Conference of the Parties (COP30) - The largest global United Nations event for discussions and negotiations on climate change. COP is held annually, with the presidency rotating among the five UN-recognized regions. In 2025, Brazil will have the honor of hosting the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). The chosen city will provide the world with a unique platform to discuss climate solutions, firmly rooted in the heart of the Amazon. The event will gather world leaders, ministers and representatives of international organizations to discuss how to tackle the climate crisis through fair and sustainable energy transitions, as well as forest and biodiversity conservation. Solar Cookers International's, Executive Director, Caitlyn Hughes, Science Director, Dr. Alan Bigelow, and Strategic Partnerships Manager, Keith Wingeard, will be representing the solar cooking community. The SCI team will showcase the success of new programs in Mali and the Central African Republic, along with progress from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. See the schedule of SCI's participation and presentations...
See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Cameroon

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  • June 2025: Priscilla Song presentation of her advocacy work with solar cooking - Solar Cookers International hosted the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) Parallel Event on March 19, 2025, after which included a PowerPoint presentation by Priscilla Song from Cameroon. The presentation can be viewed in the adjacent sliding gallery. Click on the image to expand the slidshow. Priscilla works to protect the natural environment and sustainable development in Cameroon, and promotes solar cooking as one way to help empower and ensure the safety of local women. For millions of women and girls worldwide, the daily task of cooking is a dangerous burden. In homes reliant on polluting fuels like wood, charcoal, and dung, they face harmful smoke exposure, severe health risks, and, for those gathering firewood, increased risks of injury and violence. Solar cookers offer a transformative, clean, and cost-effective alternative. Emitting no pollutants, solar cooking improves health and empowers women by reducing financial strain through free solar energy. Women and girls then have more time to devote to studies, income-generating activities, the education of their children.
Presentation credit: Priscilla Song


  • January 2022: Commonwealth Environmental Week - Priscilla Song, is the commonwealth focal point for the Ministry of Environment protection of Nature and sustainable development in Cameroon, and has been actively promoting solar cooking as a method to help the country adopt fuel-saving and clean air strategies. At the recent Commonwealth Environmental Week gathering, she used a solar panel cooker to demonstrate the benefits of solar cooking to the Commonwealth Relations Manager for Cameroon.
Leéiyen teaches the use of solar box cookers and the --SODIS-- approach to water pastuerization, 11-15-14

Leéiyen teaches the use of solar panel cookers and the SODIS method of water pasteurization in Cameroon, November 2014.

  • November 2008: Solar Household Energy (SHE) completed a nine month 25 HotPot Pilot Program with our Cameroonian partner, the Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Fight against Desertification. The women in Maroua, Cameroon were happy with their HotPots and continue to be impressed by the variety of foods they can cook. The participants have been teaching their colleagues and friends about the HotPot. Demand for the HotPot has increased and SHE, Inc. and our partners are planning to expand the project.
ORES cooker
  • November 2007: The Organisation for Rural Education Simplicity (ORES) has been carrying out solar cooker research for several months. After experimenting with parabolic cookers, which they found difficult to keep focused on the sun as it moves, they chose to develop a solar box cooker that can cook for five people. The box can be closed to keep water warm overnight. Glass and mirrors are the only cooker materials that are not produced locally. Production cost is about $150 per cooker. Although ORES is based in Bamenda, in the western part of Cameroon, ORES hopes to promote the cookers in northern Cameroon where the Sahara Desert is encroaching and where the sun shines nine months per year.
  • Fall 2006: Details about SHE’s pilot project were arranged with the Association for the Protection of the Environment and the Fight against desertification. This NGO was founded by a group of Cameroonians concerned with the destruction of their environment. The project is scheduled to launch in January 2007.

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  • Northern part of the country: Sunny throughout the year and local sources of firewood are depleted. The north is a good region for solar cooking. Southern part of the country: Abundant rain and abundant firewood. (Source: Juan Urrutia Sanz, 2010-Feb-15)

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