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CarbonSIG - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

[top] [end]New to the topic?

• You can read about the basics of Climate Change, CO2 and Carbon here
• Read the HEDON knowledge bank page on Improved Cooking Stoves and the Clean Development Mechanism
• Take a look at issue 54 of Boiling Point - on Climate Change and Household Energy. You can read or download all the articles here. The article web pages are also listed below
• Phil Mann's theme editorial is a good starting point, read it here BP54:Carbon finance for clean cooking Carbon finance for clean cooking – time to grasp the opportunity: BP54 Theme Editorial by Phil Mann
• Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty of the Aprovecho Research Center have recently published a brief summary of the Gold Standard protocols to try to help the stove community to better understand the topic. You can read it here

[top] [end]Boiling Point 54

• BP54:Carbon finance for clean cooking Carbon finance for clean cooking – time to grasp the opportunity: Theme Editorial by Phil Mann
• BP54:Health and Greenhouse Gas Impacts in Africa Health and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Fossil Fuel Energy Futures in Africa by Robert Bailis, Majid Ezzati and Daniel M. Kammen
• BP54:Critique of GHG stove assessment methods - Why current assessment methods may lead to significant underestimation of GHG reductions of improved stoves by Michael A. Johnson, Rufus Edwards, Adrián Ghilardi, Victor Berrueta, Omar Masera
• BP54:Carbon Finance for Healthy Kitchens by Adam Harvey
• BP54: Practical Action CO2 offsetting experience - The experience of Practical Action with CO2 offsetting in funding development activities for poor communities by Dr. Teodoro Sanchez
• BP54: Credible Carbon Offsets for African Households: The Need for “Carbon Plus” Investments by Dean Cooper
• BP54: Marine conservation and energy efficient stoves by Ellie La Trobe-Bateman and Heinz Vetter
• BP54: Can Carbon Finance Clean Cooking? by Dick Jones

[top] [end]Carbon Workshops/Presentations

• ARECOP/GERES Carbon Finance Workshop: The workshop was organized by ARECOP and GERES and designed and conducted by the Climate Change Unit of GERES Cambodia. The training workshop aimed to provide know how on developing improved cookstove projects for the carbon financing scheme. In the workshop, possible future collaborations on and back up facilities for carbon financed ICS project development was also discussed. 16 participants representing institutions in 7 countries were given training in the carbon financing of schemes, key concepts used in the CDM project development and the process of developing ICS projects based on exisiting GERES programmes. You can read more about the event here.
• International Carbon Trading and the Voluntary Market (97 KB)
• Intorudiction to Project Idea Notes (PINs) (46 KB)
• DNV Presentation: Cambodia Cookstove Programme (532 KB)
• Key Concepts: Non-Renewable Biomass (217 KB)
• Key Concepts: Baselines and Additionality (106 KB)
• Calculating Emissions Reductions (113 KB)
• How to use Carbon Finance (527 KB)
• Monitoring Activities (165 KB)

• PCIA
• Greenhouse gases and improved cooking stoves: Creating carbon credits for the voluntary carbon trading market, as presented by Evan Haigler at the PCIA Africa Regional Workshop 2007 (593 KB) You can see this presentation in a zipped format, as well as many others on IAP and HHE monitoring, at the PCIA website. Visit www.pciaonline.org and then go to 'News and Events' and then 'Proceedings'.

[top] [end]Topics

[top] [end]Case studies and verfication reports

• Evaluation of Uganda IDP Camps Stoves, September 07 (680 KB)
• The UGASTOVE: The PCIA presentation above mentions a case study which you can read below. You can also read about the UGASTOVE project on the Venture Strategies website or follow the links below:
• UGASTOVE Case Study as presented by David Mukisa at the PCIA Africa Regional Workshop 2007 (364 KB)
• A summary of the UGASTOVE project (118 KB) - this is also available on the VS website but it's here in a reduced file size
• UGASTOVE Project design document as submitted to the Gold Standard

[top] [end]Biomass Renewability

• The Share of Non-Renewable Biomass in Wood Fuel Production & Consumption by Bio-climatic Zones in Nigeria by Paul Krämer (170 KB)
• WISDOM: A GIS-based supply demand mapping tool for woodfuel management by Omar Maseraa, Adrian Ghilardia, Rudi Drigob, Miguel Angel Trossero (1,653 KB)

[top] [end]Standards Bodies

• The Gold Standard Website
• The Voluntary Carbon Standard Website
• NEW Cookstove Methodology Developed by ClimateCare. This methodology has been developed for large-scale projects disseminating improved cookstoves. It will help to launch large-scale programmes on and act as a guideline for the CDM small-scale projects

[top] [end]CDM and Methodologies

• http://cdm.unfccc.int/EB/037/index.html

• Visit the UN Bali Climate Change Conference Main Website
• Further guidance relating to the clean development mechanism

• Recommendation to the CMP: SSC I.E. Switch from Non-Renewable Biomass for Thermal Applications by the User (195 KB)
• Recommendation to the CMP: SSC II.G. Energy Efficiency Measures in Thermal Applications of Non-Renewable Biomass (181 KB)

[top] [end]Older information

• HEDON CarbonSIG message on Non-renewable biomass and household energy (49 KB)
• Draft Decision Text on CDM and Non-Renewable Biomass (85 KB)
• Draft Note prepared by World Bank staff on CDM & Non Renewable Biomass (310 KB)
• Presentation by B Schlamadinger from Joanneum Research, Austria at a COP12 side event, Nairobi 9 Nov 2006 (266 KB)
• Revised draft methodology on Non-Renewable Biomass, 8 Nov 2006 (129 KB)

[top] [end]Also in the HEDON news

• The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy has published a new research document reviewing ten development programs in Africa and Asia. Together, the ten programmes serve more than nine million people in Asia and Africa and save an estimated 1.9 million tonnes of CO2 a year
• Now available! Cookstove Methodology Developed by ClimateCare. This methodology has been developed for large-scale projects disseminating improved cookstoves. It will help to launch large-scale programmes on and act as a guideline for the CDM small-scale projects
• New ESMAP Paper: Scaling Up Demand–Side Energy Efficiency Improvements through Programmatic CDM
• Camco International and Pioneer Carbon sign innovative Chinese stove agreement
• Global Warming Potential of Six Stove Types - publication by Aprovecho Research Center
• New Standard for Voluntary Carbon Market
• Building a sustainable clean stoves industry, CarbonPositive, Ethiopia

[top] [end]Glossary

[top] [end]See also

• November 2005, a Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop was held at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK

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