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.