CarbonSIG - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

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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

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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

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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.

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'.

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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

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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

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(As of January 2008) The CDM Executive Board (EB) is in the process of adopting the changes requested to CDM small-scale methodologies IE and IIG and fine tuning the language in these methodologies which will be presented to 37th Executive Board meeting scheduled at the end of January 2008 for approval. The revised draft versions will become publicly available by around 15th January at the link below under annotations to the agenda of EB 37. The final versions of I E and II G will be annexed to EB 37 report and the effective date from which I E and II G can be applied to projects will be mentioned in EB 37 report.(Thanks to Phil Mann for this information)

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

Previous draft versions of these methodologies are available here:

Click here to read the UNFCCC 'Uniting on Climate' report - A guide to the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol

There's a new ESMAP document - 'Scaling Up Demand–Side Energy Efficiency Improvements through Programmatic CDM' Read it here For the latest CDM news see CDM Highlights, a monthly newsletter from GTZ that provides brief information on the latest developments in the international negotiations relating to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

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

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

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