wame workshop: clean cooking solutions for health and sustainability
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WAME&Expo2015 in cooperation with
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Aspen Institute Italia
Clean Cooking Solutions for health and sustainability
July - 8 2015Auditorium Cascina Triulza - Expo
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This seminar is WAME’s third event and it forms part of the WE-Women for Expo
series, an Expo Milano 2015 project organised jointly with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation.
WE-Women for Expo highlights food and sustainability and puts an issue that
disproportionately impacts women at the centre of a Universal Exposition for the
first time. Around the world, women retain the unique practices, knowledge, and
traditions that blend culture and food. With growing demand for clean cookstoves
and fuels women have a critical role to play in ameliorating health and
sustainability around the globe.
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“Clean cooking is one aspect of a broader problem which is the lack of access to modern
energy in the world. To live without electricity or with an unreliable or very expensive service
affects health services, education and the well-being of communities. WAME is an association
specially formed for Expo Milano. Its goal is to make these realities known and to highlight
those solutions that have already been adopted in part and which can therefore be expanded
and multiplied”.
Pippo Ranci, President of WAME
Photo: Concern Universal
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“This is the goal of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves: to achieve the adoption of
cleaner stoves and fuels in one hundred million households by 2020. We just don’t
realise the size of this problem and it’s fundamental for us to be present at such an
important event as Expo 2015, because it’s only by making our voice heard that we can
educate individuals and increase the awareness in them that something can be done.”
Kavanaugh Livingston, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Photo: Romana Manpreet for Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
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“Let’s not forget that as a result of this method of cooking and heating,
the main cause of death among children under five is lung diseases and it is calculated
that smoke inhaled in homes causes around four million deaths each year.”
Heather Adair-Rohani, World Health Organisation
Photo: Dazin
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“Access to energy is also a gender
issue: women and men have
different energy needs. The
physical and symbolic burden of
finding fuel all falls on the
shoulders of women, mothers and
daughters, who must sacrifice their
chance for emancipation. It is men
who take the final decisions and
we must convince them that
purchasing new stoves is a priority
for the health of their whole
family.”
Joy S. Clancy, University of Twente
and the Energia NGO
Photo: Romana Manpreet for Global
Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
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“Our NGO celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and for most of this time it
has worked on the problem of clean cooking, but our commitment continues.
We mustn’t forget that there is still very much to do. Everyone must play
their part both in the private sector and civil society.”
Lucy Stevens, Practical Action
Photo:Alex Kamweru for UN Foundation
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“The right path to take is to push for simple solutions like those of the Global
Alliance. This is the right way to improve the conditions of the communities with
which we work. Experience has taught us that we need a different approach
from "let us help you" to "let us work together to help everyone".
Nathaniel Mulcahy, World Stove social enterprise
Photo: Concern Universal, Dazin
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WAME is a nonprofit association whose work commenced on the issue of
access to energy will leave an important legacy after the EXPO Milan 2015.
The wealth of knowledge, information and contacts accumulated by WAME will
form a useful legacy for future editions of the EXPO, both that in 2017, “Future
Energy” in Astana (Kazakistan), and that in 2020 “Connecting Minds, Creating
the Future” in Dubai. To confirm all this WAME is fully committed to the
principles contained in the “Milan Charter”, an important commitment to
future generations.
The WAME & Expo2015 Association, formed at the end of July 2013 is an
initiative of the following members: A2A, Edison, Enel, Eni, E.ON Italia, Gas
Natural Italia, ENGIE-GDF SUEZ Italia e Tenaris-Dalmine, Expo2015 S.p.A.
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