Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Chairman Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology alongside members of the Leadership Council of the United Nations, Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves is expected to deliver update report on Nigerian activities and how the government is making progress to promote and prioritize the issue of clean cooking in Nigeria.

The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is an innovative public-private partnership that has grown from 19 partners at launch in September 2010 to more than 800 partners across 6 continents, working together to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions.

The Alliance's partners now include 39 national governments, the private sector comprised of large corporations and hundreds of small- and medium-sized enterprises, over a dozen UN agencies, foundations, and scores of non-governmental organizations, women's groups, investors, and academic institutions.

With the ambitious goal of enabling 100 million households to adopt clean cooking solutions by 2020, the Alliance has made strong progress in identifying and implementing solutions to overcome the many market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment, and sustained use of clean cookstoves and fuels at scale.

Three years ago, Hillary Clinton - US Secretary of State launched the Alliance to raise awareness globally, and much progress has been made since inception.

Now they need the support and active personal engagement of all of Leadership and Advisory Council members including Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki to help continue their efforts to transform the lives of 500 million households, many of which depend on women and the sustainability of our planet.

The Alliance proves that public-private partnerships are a powerful means of having a lasting impact, and is a model for the future.

Other members of the leadership council includes, Michelle Bachelet‎Former President and Chile and Former Under-Secretary-General and Former Executive Director, UN Women, Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and President and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice, Otto Pérez MolinaPresident of Guatemalan Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, and Lilianne Ploumen Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands