Clean Cooking. Climate Impact. Local Opportunity.
Ecofoyer is a world-leading clean cooking programme leveraging climate finance to reduce cooking emissions, improve air-quality and improve lives.
THE PROGRAMME
Ecofoyer is a clean cooking programme that develops and implements efficient and modern cooking solutions in regions where households rely on traditional biomass such as firewood and charcoal. The programme focuses on deploying improved and advanced cookstoves, supporting sustainable biomass fuels, and building local supply chains to provide cleaner, more efficient cooking options for communities.
VISION
To make clean, efficient cooking accessible to every household that relies on traditional biomass, reducing pressure on forests, improving health and livelihoods, and delivering measurable climate benefits through scalable, locally implemented programmes.
By reducing the amount of fuel required for cooking, Ecofoyer programmes help lower deforestation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve household health by limiting exposure to indoor air pollution. The programmes are supported by high-integrity carbon finance, which enables large-scale implementation while ensuring long-term monitoring, maintenance, and community engagement.
Ecofoyer works with local partners, governments, and international supporters to deliver climate, health, and economic benefits while creating local employment through stove production, fuel supply, and distribution networks.
Ecofoyer distributes a combination of high-efficiency improved and advanced cookstoves to significantly reduce harmful emissions, fuel usage and cooking times for local community members.
KEY BENEFITS
OUR TEAM
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James is a registered Renewable Energy Professional with the Association of Energy Engineers and specialises in energy system analysis, data management, and data visualisation of energy programs. Over the past years, James has been developing solutions to reduce Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions within the mining industry in South Africa, focusing on bio-based options.
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David specializes in the sustainability integration of mining companies with regard to environmental and socio-economic systems. David has experience as a researcher and project manager in areas such as mine dust, energy management planning of large industrial-scale mines, formulation of national policy for mine closure, and concurrent economic diversification for mining areas. David is proficient in Life Cycle Analyses and Circular Economy thinking. Most recently he has project managed two consecutive economic diversification programs in the South African Platinum industry and assisted with drafting the National Mine Closure Strategy.
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Jean-Marc holds a B.Eng in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Pretoria and gained extensive experience working as a business improvement consultant in the mining industry. His focus included applying systems thinking, process and operating model design, lean principles and project management tools in various improvement projects. Jean-Marc gained an avid interest in the sustainability and energy field whilst working as a consultant in the mining industry, and joined C-NES as project engineer to be able to apply his experience in this field.
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