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The Clean Cooking Alliance’s User Insights Lab is hosting a webinar to share findings from the largest study to date of fuel stacking in sub-Saharan Africa.

Fuel stacking—the practice of using multiple stoves and fuels in parallel—is one of the most persistent challenges facing clean cooking enterprises. It undermines business models and limits the health and climate benefits of clean cooking transitions. Despite this, the sector has historically lacked robust, comparable data on why it happens and what can be done about it.

Working with seven clean cooking companies across Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, and Malawi, the UIL applied its fuel stacking diagnostic tool across more than 3,000 household surveys. The results reveal consistent patterns in why customers stack, which cooking practices drive it, and what companies can do to reduce it.

The webinar will present the study results and feature representatives from Emerging Cooking Solutions, a pellet stove provider who will share how they used the findings, and CLEAN-Air Africa, an academic research group who will share some of their own experiences testing fuel stacking interventions.

This webinar is the latest in the User Insights Lab’s ongoing series on user research in the clean cooking sector, run in partnership with the Modern Energy Cooking Services Programme, and will serve as the public launch of the aggregate findings report.

Time: 7:00 EDT (New York), 12:00 BST (London), 13:00 CEST (Geneva), and 14:00 EAT (Nairobi).

Join 2X Global and Amazon for an exclusive event celebrating the pivotal role of women’s leadership in climate action. The session will open with a fireside chat setting the scene for understanding why gender-smart climate finance is no longer optional. It will highlight how an integrated ecosystem empowers women entrepreneurs to scale high-impact climate solutions that safeguard our planet’s future, and why programmes such as the Resilience Futures Fund (RFF) can have a transformative impact on women-led and benefitting organisations.

Following the opening dialogue, we will shift to a conversation featuring some Africa-based RFF grantees and their investee companies. These leaders will share practical success stories of how catalytic grant funding has bridged the gap from ideation to impact, enabling them to build resilient, market-ready ventures. The event will conclude with a networking reception, providing a dedicated space for investors and innovators to connect and explore opportunities for collaboration in mobilising capital toward gender-smart climate solutions.

Time: 15:30 – 18:30

For 25 years the NOG Energy Week Conference & Exhibition has been privileged to partner with industry and governments to chart Nigeria’s energy growth story.

During this time NOG Energy Week has firmly established itself as a strategic enabler, delivering unique value and impact for businesses and citizens across the region’s dynamic energy market.

As Nigeria’s foremost convening platform for the international energy community, NOG Energy Week drives bold dialogue, strategic partnerships, and deal-making to advance markets and accelerate progress toward a secure, just, and sustainable energy future.

Summit Overview
Adaptation Investment Summit for Africa 2026.
The Adaptation Investment Summit for Africa 2026 (AISA 2026) is a premier Pan-African convening bringing together policymakers, investors, development finance institutions, enterprises, innovators, fund managers, and ecosystem leaders to accelerate climate adaptation finance, enterprise resilience, and sustainable investment across Africa.

Hosted in Nairobi, Kenya, the Summit will serve as a strategic platform for high-level dialogue, investment partnerships, innovation showcases, and actionable collaboration focused on building climate-resilient economies and communities across the continent.

India is one of the world’s largest agricultural producers, yet a substantial share of food is lost or wasted across the value chain. Food loss occurs during production, harvesting, storage, and transport, while food waste takes place at the retail, food service, and household levels (FAO 2019). In India, post-harvest losses are estimated at 68.9 million metric tonnes, costing INR 1.53 lakh crore annually (NABCONS 2022). At the same time, 78.2 million tonnes of food is wasted each year (UNEP 2024), making India the second-largest food waste generator globally. Beyond economic costs, food loss and food waste (FLFW) contributes nearly 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Zhu et al. 2013) (FAO 2013).

These losses present systemic challenges across India’s food system – impacting farmer livelihoods, access to nutrition, urban sustainability, and resilience of food value chains. For small and marginal farmers, who make up 86% of agricultural landholders, food loss is not merely a supply chain inefficiency; it translates directly into lost income and reduced resilience, particularly given limited access to post-harvest infrastructure and increasing climate risks. At the same time, food that is lost or wasted represents a missed opportunity to nourish communities, alongside the loss of valuable resources such as water, land, and labour. In urban areas, food waste highlights inefficiencies in how food is consumed, managed, and redistributed, even as nutrition gaps persist and waste volumes continue to rise. Addressing FLFW is therefore critical to building more resilient, inclusive, and equitable food systems in India.

Building on the momentum of its inaugural edition, WRI India, in partnership with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Friends of Champions 12.3 India, is hosting RESET 2026: Dialogues to Reduce Food Loss and Waste in India on 9–10 July 2026 in New Delhi. RESET is a national platform that brings together stakeholders from across government, food and agriculture businesses, producers, development partners, financial institutions, academia, innovators, bulk waste generators and civil society to advance dialogue and catalyse action on reducing FLFW in India.

RESET 2026 will focus on the role of food loss and waste reduction in strengthening livelihoods, improving nutrition outcomes, and enabling more resilient and inclusive food systems. Alongside the dialogues, an exhibition will showcase innovative solutions and technologies spanning farm-gate interventions, post-harvest management, urban food waste prevention, and waste-to-value approaches.

This workshop will teach participants to build an evidence-based Theory of Change. We will cover the fundamentals of mapping assumptions to strategic goals and metrics that serve as a north star for impact investing practices. Participants will learn the importance of implementation and iteration of their Theory of Change as they move across the investment lifecycle.

Time: 9:30am – 1:00pm ET

Join us for a webinar exploring the upcoming findings of The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2026, the latest edition of the GSMA Connected Women programme’s flagship annual report.

The report provides a detailed analysis of the gender gap in mobile ownership and mobile internet use across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), highlighting key trends, the barriers women face and opportunities to further drive women’s digital and financial inclusion.

The upcoming report shows that the gender gap in mobile internet adoption in LMICs decreased slightly last year, continuing a slow but gradual narrowing since 2022. Women across these countries are now 12% less likely than men to use mobile internet. Yet progress remains slow, with a continued need for targeted action to ensure women are not left behind.

In this session, Emma Catalfamo, lead author of the report, will present the latest insights on the mobile gender gap. You will also hear from the Secretary General of the ITU, the CEO of Ethio telecom and the President of Devices and Sales at Reliance Jio, who will share their perspectives on the findings and discuss concrete actions that can be taken to accelerate digital inclusion for women.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and practical recommendations on how to help bridge the mobile gender gap and ensure that everyone can benefit from the power of connectivity.

Time: 13:00 – 14:00 BST / 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EST