National Clean Cooking Policy (anchored on NREEEP 2015, SE4All-AA, and NEP 2022)

A Policy establishes a framework for transitioning households away from polluting fuels like wood and charcoal. It promotes the use of cleaner technologies such as LPG, biogas, and improved biomass stoves. This initiative addresses a major public health challenge by reducing smoke exposure for women and children.

What Is This Policy?

The National Clean Cooking Policy is Nigeria's framework for transitioning households away from traditional wood fuel, charcoal, and kerosene toward cleaner cooking fuels and technologies such as LPG, biogas, improved biomass stoves, and electric cooking. Over 180 million Nigerians currently cook with polluting fuels, making this one of Nigeria's most significant public health and environmental challenges.

Who Does It Target?

The approximately 180 million Nigerians (90% of the population) who cook with wood fuel, charcoal, or kerosene Women and children in rural households who bear the heaviest health burden from cooking smoke LPG retailers, biogas developers, improved cookstove manufacturers, and clean cooking service providers State governments and LGAs responsible for rural energy access and public health

What Does It Aim to Achieve?

Achieve 30% clean cooking access by 2025 and 80% by 2030, up from approximately 13 to 18% in 2022 Reduce household air pollution deaths, which kill an estimated 93,000 Nigerians annually (WHO 2022), primarily from cooking smoke Grow LPG consumption from approximately 1 kg per person per year to the ECOWAS target of at least 5 kg per person per year Reduce pressure on forests from charcoal and firewood by substituting clean fuels

Key Features

LPG Expansion Programme: Government subsidises LPG cylinder distribution, builds cylinder manufacturing capacity, and expands LPG retail access to underserved communities Cooking Fuel Subsidy Reform: Kerosene subsidy elimination redirected toward targeted clean cooking subsidies for low-income households Improved Cookstove Certification: SON certification of improved biomass stoves ensures they meet minimum efficiency and emission standards before distribution Pro-Poor Targeting: Results-based financing and subsidised starter kits for low-income households who cannot afford the upfront cost of LPG cylinders and stoves Biogas Development: Policy promotes household and community biogas systems as a clean cooking solution for peri-urban communities near agricultural waste sources Carbon Finance: Clean cooking projects qualify for verified carbon credits under the Gold Standard and VCS frameworks, providing revenue to subsidise costs

Current Status

The National Clean Cooking Policy is active and being implemented, as it sets specific targets for 2025 and 2030 based on existing frameworks like NREEEP 2015.

Legal Framework

National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy (NREEEP) 2015; Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Framework; Energy Commission of Nigeria Act; Climate Change Act 2021; Paris Agreement 2015