This report underscores the need for the global community to expand access to cleaner cooking fuels and technologies, illustrating their potential to mitigate climate change as a nature-based solution. It covers the following sections: 1) Reversing nature loss requires clean cooking; 2) The energy-nature nexus: Forest degradation; 3) The value of clean cooking for nature-based solutions; and 4) Finance: Challenges and opportunities to align clean cooking and nature-based solutions.

It concludes that transitioning to sustainable and cleaner sources of fuelwood is central to placing communities at the heart of nature-based solutions and addressing the core drivers of forest degradation and deforestation in the first place.