Clean Cooking Alliance

{{Short description|US-based non-profit organization}}

{{primary sources|date=November 2012}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Clean Cooking Alliance

| formation = {{start date|2010|09|21|df=y}}

| headquarters = Washington, D.C.

| leader_title = Chief Executive Officer

| leader_name = Dymphna van der Lans{{Cite web |title=Our Team|url=https://cleancooking.org/our-team/ |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=Clean Cooking Alliance |language=en-US}}

| parent_organization = United Nations Foundation

| website =

}}

The Clean Cooking Alliance, formerly the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves,{{cite web | last=GmbH | first=finanzen.net | title=Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is Now the Clean Cooking Alliance | website=markets.businessinsider.com | date=2018-10-30 | url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/global-alliance-for-clean-cookstoves-is-now-the-clean-cooking-alliance-1027670889 | access-date=2021-05-05}} is a non-profit organization{{Cite news |title=Why cooking causes 4m premature deaths a year |url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/07/12/why-cooking-causes-4m-premature-deaths-a-year |access-date=2024-07-13 |work=The Economist |issn=0013-0613}} operating with the support of the United Nations Foundation{{cite web|title=Clean Cooking Alliance : Our Work|url=http://www.cleancookingalliance.org/our-work/|publisher=Clean Cooking Alliance|access-date=2 November 2012}} to promote clean cooking technologies in lower and middle-income countries. Four million people a year die from health problems attributable to household air pollution from the use of polluting open fires and inefficient fuels for cooking.{{cite web|title=Household air pollution|url=https://www.who.int/gho/phe/indoor_air_pollution/en/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705052821/http://www.who.int/gho/phe/indoor_air_pollution/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 5, 2011 |publisher=World Health Organization}} The Alliance was announced in 2010 by then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.{{Cite web|title=Secretary Clinton Announces the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at the Clinton Global Initiative|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/09/147488.htm|access-date=2021-09-20|website=U.S. Department of State}}

Dymphna previously worked as CEO for the Clinton Climate Initiative organization.

They also provide grants for research and initiatives that support the aims of the Alliance,{{cite web|title=Clean Cooking Alliance : Resource Mobilization|url=http://www.cleancookingalliance.org/our-work/priorities/resource-mobilization.html|publisher=Clean Cooking Alliance|access-date=2 November 2012}} advocate for international standards for stove manufacturers,{{cite web|title=Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves : Promote International Standards|url=http://www.cleancookingalliance.org/our-work/priorities/promote-standards.html|publisher=Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves}} and coordinate research and knowledge of the issues surrounding the use of clean cookstoves.{{cite web|title=Clean Cooking Alliance|url=http://cleancookingalliance.org/about/how-we-are-funded/}}