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CarbonSIG - Special Interest Group on "Cooking and Carbon"


Contents: | Latest News | CarbonSIG is looking for sponsors! | Earlier News | Aims | Activities | Members | How to join | Background | Glossary |
CarbonSIG

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Welcome to the CarbonSIG page,

CarbonSIG connects all those engaged in greenhouse gas emissions reduction, carbon sequestration, and climate adaptation who are working to create a sustainable environment that benefits those living in poverty through information, discussion and action around improved household energy.

[top] [end]Latest News

Interesting Side Events from COP14 in Poznan, Poland

Some major themes at this conference are technology transfer and deforestation, and it will be interesting to see what impacts this may have on the household energy sector. If any members do spot anything interesting then please do send a quick email to the group and I'll also post any relevant documents.

See the main side event list here

Tuesday 2nd December
  • CPC - Short-lived Arctic climate forcers: avoiding Arctic tipping points (inc. black carbon)

Wednesday 3rd December
  • UNFCCC - CDM methodologies - existing & emerging approaches; & PoA - opportunities & challenges

Friday 5th December
  • Geres - Fair Carbon Finance to fight both Poverty and Climate Change
  • OBU - Innovations for the next level of the CDM: lesson learnted from first PoAs
  • ICREF - REDD strategies for high-carbon rural development
  • CATF - Biochar - new item for the climate toolkit to decrease CO2 and black carbon?

Tuesday 9th December

Wednesday 10th December

Thursday 11 Dec
  • UNCCD - New stoves for rural households to capture carbon, reduce deforestation and improve soil fertility
  • UNICA - Advanced sugarcane ethanol: contributions to climate change mitigation and the environment

Friday 12th December
  • RIS - A pathway to energy savings in private households: considering programmes of activities in JI/CDM

Goldman Sachs Buys Into Carbon Offsets
From the New York Times website
also on the E+Co website

The UNDP are looking for a VOLUNTARY CARBON MARKET ADVISOR
Application Deadline : 12-Dec-08
Read more here

UNEP RISO
GHG Emission Factor (EF) template for the National Electricity Grid of the United Republic of Tanzania developed as a public good under the CD4CDM Project. You can see it here under "Emission Factors".

[top] [end]CarbonSIG is looking for sponsors!


Are you a carbon offset company looking to raise your profile? Or how about an NGO looking to get involved with cook stoves? If you are interested then please click here.

[top] [end]Earlier News



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 - Read it here

Carbon Catalog
An interesting website with a directory of carbon offsets that lists and rates over 80 offset providers and 300 projects worldwide. See www.carboncatalog.org for more information

Request for news, events and resources
We are always looking for relevant news, events and resources to distribute to network members so please feel free to email the list directly (you must be signed up to do this) or email your information to me and I'll post it for you.

You can contribute information from your own work, that of your organisation, or news you have heard from others, and could have a local, regional or international focus. The SIG operates via a webpage and an email list so anything from press releases and project updates to reports and academic papers are welcome.

Any problems or comments please feel free to email me at james@...

Cheers,

James Robinson
CarbonSIG Moderator

[top] [end]Aims

CarbonSIG specifically aims to:
  • Connect people and organisations working on household energy and carbon emission reduction, sequestration and adaptation to climate change
  • Support high quality business, government and NGO networking
  • Foster co-ordination and collaboration leading to the creation of new knowledge and ultimately improved household energy provision
  • Support information exchange on carbon emission reduction, carbon sequestration, and climate adaptation in the household energy sector.

[top] [end]Activities

CarbonSIG connects members from around the world through an email discussion list. Members have access to the list archives and other member resources.
  • Online e-conference January 2008: Over 100 CarbonSIG members took part in a two week online conference - Read more here
  • CarbonSIG Marketplace: Aimed at facilitating carbon and cooking projects, this free and easy to use service allows members to post offered/wanted adverts to a list
  • Previous discussions have focused on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and preparation of messages for the Nairobi COP12/MOP2 meeting (Nov 2006). See the HEDON news article here.
  • Phillips DAP also released a call for Expressions of Interest for carbon services for their newly developed woodstove via the CarbonSIG email list.
The three main topics covered by CarbonSIG each have there own SIG page:

[top] [end]Members

Good news! There are currently 230 members in CarbonSIG. This was getting too much to put on one page so we've moved the list to a separate members page.

We will eventually be listing members in professional groupings so please, if you haven't already done so:
  • log in
  • go to your user centre click here
  • update your professional summary
Then we can put your name under the relevant group(s). We hope to automate this soon but for the time being the moderator will have to do this manually so please be patient... Clicking on the names of members takes you to their personal page on HEDON, where they may have given information about themselves. Again, if you haven't updated your personal page, please do so.

[top] [end]How to join

We will shortly be making a signup option from here. Currently the group may be joined by:
  1. Signing in to HEDON using your username and password here. If you are not already a member, Join the Network here.
  2. Under the usercentre, click on Subscribe for the CarbonSIG.

[top] [end]Background

In November 2005, a Cooking and Carbon Expert Workshop was held at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK. Minutes of this meeting can be found here.

One of the key outcomes of this workshop was the need for more joined up working on the issues of climate change associated with biomass use (particularly household energy), if those living in poverty are to benefit from carbon emission reduction initiatives. HEDON Household Energy Network was charged with developing a community of practice to facilitate this process. This ‘Special Interest Group’ – known as ‘CarbonSIG’, was the first Special Interest Group to be formed within HEDON household energy network and started on September 4th, 2006.

[top] [end]Glossary

See the CarbonSIG glossary here (under development, contributions welcomed!)





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