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31 March 2026
Uganda-Ghana exchange on advancing clean cooking through carbon finance
In March 2026, officials from Uganda engaged with peers from Ghana in Accra for an exchange on how compliance carbon markets are being governed and developed to drive clean cooking at scale.
The Ugandan delegation convened officials from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Ministry of Water and Environment and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, alongside ICLEI Africa and the Global Green Growth Institute Uganda Office.
The objective was to draw on Ghana’s experience in operationalising compliance carbon markets for clean cooking and use those lessons to shape Uganda’s own policy and regulatory frameworks.
Discussions focused on how these markets function in practice, from project registration and eligibility to the frameworks that give private companies the confidence to invest. The delegation also visited three Ghanaian clean cooking companies to examine how policy shapes business models, how carbon credits are verified and brought to market, and how investment is supporting local manufacturing and employment.
We are grateful to our Ghanaian hosts from the Ministry of Energy and Green Transition, the Environmental Protection Authority, Ghana carbon markets office, the Energy Commission Ghana, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and to the private sector companies: Cook Clean Limited, Envirofit and @UpEnergy.
ICLEI Africa convened this South-South cooperation through the ENACTUS project. ENACTUS is funded by UK Aid through @Transforming Energy Access and forms part of the Uganda–UK eCooking Scale and Support Programme.
