CDM
Bangladesh
Construction began on the Titas gas distribution system in the mid-1960s and over the years the system has not been adequately maintained. As a result, a significant percentage of the natural gas throughput (predominately methane (CH4)) leaks from components in the system and is released into the atmosphere. The Titan Gas project will lead to reductions of methane, a greenhouse gas (GHG)
Implementation of this project is expected to reduce emissions by an estimated more than 4 million tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) GHG per year, generating around 40 million tCO2e Certified Emission Reductions (CER) over 10 years.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/TUEV-RHEIN1418008670.0/view
CDM
Brazil
The Brasil Caixa Econômica Federal Solid Waste Management and Carbon Finance Project is an initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through improved solid waste management practices. The project focuses on supporting the development of sustainable waste management systems in Brazil by promoting the use of cleaner technologies. This happens by the collection of landfill gas (biogas) and its use to generate electricity, or to supply to consumers through a natural gas distribution network.
The project is also designed to support the Brazilian government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing the country’s use of other fossil fuels, and contribute to capacity building and job creation, as well as reduce air pollution for the local populations.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/PoARenewal/ren_db/poaren51748664/viewCPAs
CDM
Brazil
The objective of the CTR Candeias Landfill Gas Project is to capture and burn the landfill gas (LFG)1 generated by the decay of organic waste from the CTR Candeias Sanitary landfill located in the municipality of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, in the Recife Metropolitan Area. The project also intends to generate electricity from the combustion of LFG and sale it to the national electricity grid and thus reduce CO2 emissions by displacing electricity generated from fossil fuels.
1 The major landfill gas contents are methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2)
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/ERM-CVS1283351787.62/view
CDM
Brazil
The objective of the project is to capture and to flare/combustion the landfill gas produced in a new landfill in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project activity will result in greenhouse gas emissions reduction from limiting unnecessary flaring methane and though supplying the captured methane to a nearby energy producer. In the next Phase of the project, it is planned for the combustion of the landfill gas to provide clean electricity for the local community and the landfill facilities, reducing reliance on the fossil fuel fed national grid.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/LRQA_Ltd1332768548.38/view
CDM
Mexico
The Oaxaca IV Wind Energy Project is a wind farm located in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Its main purpose is to generate electricity through wind power, which is a renewable energy source that does not emit harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. By generating electricity from wind, the Oaxaca IV Wind Energy Project helps to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Additionally, the project provides a source of clean energy for the region, promoting sustainable economic development and reducing carbon emissions.
CDM
South Africa
The Green Power for South Africa carbon project is a sustainable energy initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting the use of wind and solar renewable energy sources in South Africa. Currently, only a few, very small renewable energy projects exist in South Africa due to a number of critical barriers. The project is also designed to support South Africa's transition to a low-carbon economy, improve energy security, and create economic opportunities in the renewable energy sector.
South Africa is experiencing growth that is outstripping its energy supplies, to avoid the major power cuts experienced in the past. In addition, some South African households are not connected to the electricity supply grid and are living in so-called ‘energy poverty’. To achieve its objectives, the project employs various approaches, including capacity building, and financial support for renewable energy projects. Furthermore, the project will create much needed local job opportunities, and will simultaneously attract direct foreign investments into the country, thereby facilitating the development of new technology and skills transfers.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/poa_db/J4PUOQ8AZNIS9V6F5RBGWTKHMD103X/view
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
Guatemala
In Guatemala, the majority of households use firewood for cooking. These fires cause respiratory problems and burns, and because they are inefficient, the high demand for wood to supply them contributes to deforestation rates. Deforestation is environmentally damaging because trees remove and store carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
This project provides households with a fuel-efficient ONIL (concrete) stove that reduces the amount of firewood required. Every ONIL stove is estimated to save around 4 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
Mexico
The Fresh Breeze afforestation project creates plantations to obtain high-value, long-lived timber products and to sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide on land that is adjacent to cattle farming. The overall objective of the project activity is to contribute to mitigate climate change while meeting the growing demand for quality wood products from well managed plantation forests.
CDM
Brazil
The Brazil NovaGerar Landfill Gas to Energy project will collect and flare landfill gas (LFG), thereby reducing uncontrolled release of methane, and generate electricity from LFG, reducing CO2 emissions associated to the use of grid electricity.
CDM
Jilin Province, China
The Jilin Taonan Xinli Wind Project is located in Xinli Village in Jilin Province in the North East of China. The project’s 33 wind turbines harness strong prevailing winds to generate clean, renewable electricity. Traditionally, electricity in China’s Jilin Province has been dominated by thermal power use.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/TUEV-SUED1311254904.13/view
Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
Indian states of Telangana, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
In India, many households and businesses use electricity from a grid that is largely powered by carbon intensive coal. The proposed project activity is a step towards supporting the implementation and installation of grid connected renewable solar energy power plants in India. The implementation of project activity ensures energy security, diversification of the grid generation mix and sustainable growth of the electricity generation sector in India.
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
Guatemala
In Guatemala, the majority of households use firewood for cooking. These fires cause respiratory problems and burns, and because they are inefficient, the high demand for wood to supply them contributes to deforestation rates. Deforestation is environmentally damaging because trees remove and store carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
This project provides households with a fuel-efficient ONIL (concrete) stove that reduces the amount of firewood required. Every ONIL stove is estimated to save around 4 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
CDM
Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, China
The Zhaoyuan Zhangxing Wind Project reduces carbon in the atmosphere and at the same time improves local air quality.
Traditionally, electricity in China’s Shandong Province has been supplied by fossil fuel-fired power plants, mainly relying on shale oil and coal. However, with its expanding economy and population, the energy demand is increasing. Meeting this with traditional methods would release high levels of carbon dioxide and other harmful air pollutants, including sulphates and nitrates, into the atmosphere. These pollutants pose a high risk to the health of local communities.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/LRQA%20Ltd1348477213.71/view
Gold Standard
India
The project reduces carbon emissions and helps provide reliable and cost-effective off-grid electricity for families and business.
The Orb Energy Solar project in India has distributed 60,000 solar units to rural and semi-urban areas of India to provide heating and lighting. By displacing the use of kerosene, the project is estimated to cut carbon emissions by 55,000 tonnes of CO2e per year. In addition, household electricity bills have been reduced by more than 50%.
CDM
Bangladesh
Some parts of the TITAS gas network are more than 50 years old with possibility of substantial leakage through the system. A systematic survey to detect leaks and repair of faulty joints is being undertaken to achieve the twin goals of reducing wastage of valuable gas and methane emission to the atmosphere which is twenty-five times more potent a greenhouse gas compared with carbon dioxide.
Implementation of this project is expected to reduce emissions by more than 4 million tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) GHG per year, generating around 40 million tCO2e Certified Emission Reductions (CER) over the next 10 years.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/TUEV-RHEIN1418008670.0/view
VCS
Peru
In the Peruvian Amazon, this community partnership project is enhancing the livelihood strategies of Brazil nut producers and provide incentives to maintain the forest on which they depend.
The project aims to reduce emissions that deforestation could produce within the project areas, and implement a socio-environmental management plan that will also contribute to the economic development of the Brazil nut concessionaires.
CDM
Thailand
The Korat Waste to Energy Project is an anaerobic digestion project treating waste water into clean thermal energy. The Korat Waste to Energy project was expanded to treat solid waste and excess biogas was used to generate electricity. and displace grid fed electricity.
CDM
Mexico
Mexican agriculture is a significant source of greenhouse gases, mainly cause through nitrogen fertilisation. The purpose of the project is to reduce the current emissions of nitrous oxide from the production of nitric acid.
The project works by deploying a new environmentally clean technology to Mexico which is not even common industrial practise yet in developed countries to decompose and reduce nitrous oxide.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/DNV-CUK1242393138.57/view
CDM
Costa Rica
The project funds the installation of a biomass fuelled boiler at a soy bean mill to supply steam for internal production processes, displacing a coal-fired boiler. Coal will be replaced by palm kernel shells, empty fruit bunches and other type of renewable biomass available in the area, saving coal consumption and consequently reducing carbon emissions.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/SGS-UKL1188406311.96/CP/01QO0XBQJ2AFBYES5HER13Q6GPK9FW
CDM
Chile
The 115MW El Arrayán wind power plant is one of the largest wind energy facilities in Chile. Located about 400km north of Santiago in the coastal zone of Ovalle, the project provides enough clean and renewable energy to serve up to 200,000 local homes each year.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/DNV-CUK1344922336.89/view?cp=1
CDM
Chile
San Pedro Wind Farm is a wind farm in the heights of Chiloé Island in Chile. The wind farm was built to produce 252 MW of clean renewable energy. The local community of San Pedro benefited initially by the improvement of roads and the school infrastructure that were part of the project.
CDM
Brazil
The objective of the project is to capture and to flare/combustion the landfill gas produced in a new landfill in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project activity will result in greenhouse gas emissions reduction from limiting unnecessary flaring methane and though supplying the captured methane to a nearby energy producer. This process then provides clean electricity for the local community and the landfill facilities, reducing reliance on the fossil fuel fed national grid.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/DB/LRQA_Ltd1332768548.38/view
VCS
Zambia
The Lower Zambezi REDD+ project aims to protect the Rufunsa Conservancy, a 41,160-hectare area adjacent to the Lower Zambezi National Park - one of the last intact areas of forest in Lusaka Province. It also provides training and support to hundreds of households in conservation farming practices, which help farmers to generate higher yields through more efficient farming practices.
CDM & Gold Standard
China
The project has helped equip nearly 400,000 low income households with biodigesters and efficient cook stoves to replace solid fuels such as wood and coal with biogas that is fed into appliances such as cookstoves, rice cookers, water heaters and lighting.
https://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/poa_db/5BGM96VOK3ATN4JPR70XSWIQ8CZH2F/view?cp=1
VCS
Mexico
This project provides households with a fuel-efficient ONIL (concrete) stove that reduces the amount of firewood required. This helps rural families across Mexico benefit from reduced fuel costs thanks to increased efficiency of the cookstoves compared to open fires. ONIL cookstoves use chimney flues to exhaust cooking gases outside of the building, which means families who are part of the project are less likely to suffer from respiratory illnesses.
Gold Standard
Indonesia
bp Target Neutral is supporting finance for the BIRU project in Indonesia that enables households to produce their own low cost, low carbon energy from animal dung by using biogas digesters. As a result, more than 100,000 people across ten rural provinces, are benefitting from cooking, heating and generating light using low carbon biogas.
Gold Standard
China
This project utilizes biomass/agricultural residue (mainly cotton stalks) to generate renewable electricity in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China. The project involves the installation of a 12MW biomass power plant which will utilize 130,000 tonnes of biomass residues to generate 59 000 MWh per year to the Northwest China Power Grid.
VCS
Brazil
Three ceramic production facilities in Rio De Janerio State now create sustainable terracotta briquettes for the building industry by switching the fuel source they used in their kilns. Instead of using around 4.1 million litres of fuel oil per year to create about 60,000 tonnes of ceramics, each now uses biomass in their kilns. The project also supports a rural primary school, a school for children and young adults with mental and physical disabilities and a music project for underprivileged kids.
VCS
Brazil
Kamiranga is a ceramic factory producing bricks located in northern Brazil, in the municipality of São Miguel do Guamá (PA). In the past, the factory used native Amazon firewood as fuel to produce its ceramic pieces. This project funded the factory switching to fuelling its kilns using exclusively renewable fuels, such as açai seeds and sawdust. The switch to renewable fuels created reductions in atmospheric Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
VCS
China
These small-scale hydropower stations provide enough renewable electricity to supply more than half a million Chinese homes. This helps to ensure remote communities have a reliable electricity supply. The project displaces electricity generated by grid-connected fossil fuel-based power plants. As well as helping finance the small hydropower plants, the revenue from carbon offsets has funded several community-based activities such as a sustainable agricultural training programme, a public library, eco-education programmes for children and hydropower station safety training.
VCS
USA
Proceeds from carbon credit sales are invested into sustainability projects on campus, allowing institutions to achieve greater emissions reductions and pushing communities to develop clean, efficient energy systems.
CDM
India
The Bagepalli Coolie Sangha Biogas Project in the state of Karnataka in south west India has equipped around 5,485 rural homes with biodigesters and efficient cook stoves that produce low carbon biogas for cooking rather than using solid fuels such as firewood. The finance goes towards projects that not only reduce carbon but free up time for activities that help women supplement household incomes and enable them to play a wider role in their communities.