WHO Household Energy Policy Repository : : Synthesis of Lessons.

• Place / Publishing House: Geneva : : World Health Organization,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (83 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Codes and standards -- Regulations -- Background and context -- WHO's Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST) -- Methods used to assemble and synthesize policies for the report -- Financial Instruments -- When to use financial instruments -- Cooking -- Heating -- Lighting -- Implementation of financial instruments -- Determining geographic focus -- Demographic coverage and targeting of financial instruments -- Financial instrument choice and subsidy coverage amount -- Implementing agencies -- Partnerships with financial institutions -- Funding financial policies -- Roles of international programmes, carbon markets and results-based financing (RBF) -- Long term-viability: financial policy duration and phaseout -- Key lessons from financial instruments -- Codes and standards -- Objectives of codes and standards -- Fuels and technologies -- Implementation of codes and standards -- Standards agencies -- Coverage of standards -- Monitoring and enforcement -- Energy efficiency and emission targets -- Comparing national stove standards to international standards -- Costs of developing and implementing codes and standards -- Key lessons from codes and standards -- Codes and standards can serve as essential benchmarks for other policies. -- Voluntary standards developed by international standards organizations are often directly integrated into national policies . -- International voluntary standards can be catalysts, particularly if national standards bodies lack capacity to develop their own standard. -- Countries adapt voluntary standards to fit their needs, but these may not align with WHO guidelines. This can result in different markets having overlapping and potentially inconsistent performance indicators. -- Regulations and other policies -- Regulations to achieve environmental targets.

Energy efficiency -- Emission reductions -- Other environmental objectives -- Regulations to achieve social targets -- Regulations targeting public health -- Regulations to increase energy access and affordability -- Key lessons from regulations -- Regulations are more effective when coupled with policies that cut across sectors. -- As energy service provision evolves, regulations also need to change. -- Energy transitions need coherence and coordination between regulatory bodies. -- Recommendations for policy and programme design -- Financial instruments -- Codes and standards -- Regulations -- Broad lessons for household energy policies -- References.