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Last Mile Climate is the lead organization for SOLCO, the Solar Electric Cooking Partnership for Humanitarian Contexts, which promotes affordable access to solar-electric cooking for displaced families and their host communities. The group convenes public and private partners to accelerate climate solutions in off-grid and last-mile contexts. The organization leads initiatives that crowd in private-sector solutions and climate financing to deliver clean-energy technologies at scale.
SOLCO Partnership[]
SOLCO is a Climate Action Partnership led by Last Mile Climate as part of the Global eCooking Coalition initiative and implemented with global, national, and local partners. SOLCO focuses specifically on enabling solar-electric cooking solutions for refugee-hosting countries and displacement settings.
SOLCO operates as a platform for public-private partnerships that enable market-based, localized implementation of solar-electric cooking at scale. The platform is designed to crowd in private sector solutions and climate finance to deploy solar e-cooking across refugee-hosting countries in Africa and elsewhere.
SOLCO positions solar-electric cooking as a pathway to reduce reliance on polluting fuels in displacement contexts and to improve energy access and livelihoods for displaced families and host communities. - The partnership invites collaboration from governments, businesses, NGOs, and community groups to accelerate adoption and deployment of solar-electric cooking systems.
Objectives and targets[]
- Household transition target: Transition of more than 250,000 households to solar-electric cooking by 2027.
- Financing target: Leverage a minimum of $100 million in financing to scale solar-electric cooking solutions.
- Broader aims: Champion environmental sustainability and stimulate economic development through creation of green jobs across the solar-electric value chain.
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Contact[]
Email: info@lastmileclimate.org
Web: https://www.lastmileclimate.org