BPSU’s Lacayanga attends Clean Cooking Forum in India

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Engr. Jonathan Lacayanga, Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) Abucay Campus Director and inventor of the university’s vertical-fed cookstove attended the Clean Cooking Forum in New Delhi, India.

The 3-day forum held last week of October at India Habitat Center was a biennial gathering of organizations, corporation, and people across the clean cooking market and related sectors.

Lacayanga said the forum was the largest gathering of stakeholders working together to accelerate the production, deployment and the use of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels around the world.

He said the forum had theme, Driving Demand, Delivering Impact. He added the theme marked the progression to strengthening and sustaining the market that have been collectively built in the past several years.

He also said the event was an opportunity to celebrate the sectors’ success, share the best practices, and forged new partnership as the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), a United Nations initiative, works toward goals of universal access to cleaner and more efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2030.

The vertical-fed cookstove has been recognized by GACC, making BPSU one of the about 430 institutions in the world belonging to the alliance and the first in the Philippines.

More than 50 countries including the Philippines and some partners participated in the forum. Lacayanga’s trip was fully supported by BPSU President Dr. Greg Rodis.