NAIROBI — Kenya’s First Lady, H.E. Rachel Ruto, on Tuesday officially opened the High-Level Institutional Clean Cooking Summit at Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi, urging collective action to ensure that every Kenyan institution transitions to clean and sustainable cooking solutions.
The summit, which brought together government leaders, development partners, and private-sector innovators, focused on strategies to achieve Universal Clean Cooking by 2028, a goal central to Kenya’s green energy and public health agenda.
The First Lady highlighted the vital role of institutions in driving the transition, noting that large-scale kitchens can set the standard for sustainable practices while cutting costs and reducing harmful emissions.
“The goal of attaining Universal Clean Cooking by 2028 calls for a collective approach to ensure that no mother or child pays the hidden cost of smoke-filled kitchens,” said Rachel Ruto.
“Institutions such as schools, hospitals and correctional facilities are equally important in this transition to clean cooking, they serve large numbers of people and offer the scale needed to protect health, save costs, conserve forests, and teach a generation what a healthy, dignified future looks like,” she added.
The summit’s discussions centred on mobilising finance, building public-private partnerships, and developing scalable models to accelerate clean energy adoption in institutional kitchens across the country.
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