ClimateCare is a Green-House Gas emissions-reductions team, based in Kenya and Oxford UK, specialising in reducing emissions through design and implementation of large-scale projects in developing countries which have significant sustainable development and poverty alleviation benefits. We specialize not only in developing these projects with partners in-country, but also in financing them through sale of carbon credits within the regulated voluntary market. We are part of Ecosecurities, a major developer of carbon-reducing projects generating carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism framework, and we are part of the JPMorgan Environmental Markets division. We have developed a number of efficient cook-stove projects, along with relevant methodologies for the both the Gold Standard Foundation and the Clean Development Mechanism. Reduction of indoor air pollution is an essential component of our continuing work on large-scale dissemination of efficient cook-stoves around the world.
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Our Focus
Our on-going projects include Uganda, Ghana, Bangladesh, where we have pioneered application of Gold Standard methodology and version 2 of the CDM methodology, and registered the first carbon-financed efficient cook-stove projects. Our current initiatives include CDM Program of Activities for heat retention and efficient cookstoves in South Africa and Bangladesh, and in addition we are launching efficient cook-stove Programs under the Gold Standard in India and several African countries. The scale of our operation is adoption of clean-air cookers by 2 million people in our current projects, with our target being to bring clean indoor air to a further 10 million people in the next five years.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
Our work on project design has focused on careful choice of technology to ensure widespread adoption of efficient cook-stoves. Social and cultural acceptance of the transformation from practices involving health risk to practices which provide clean indoor air, has been the key to establishment of succesful large-scale projects reaching millions of people.
All our projects are based on the principle that widespread adoption of healthy cooking practices depends on market demand. Market demand exists partly on the basis of choice of culturally appropriate technolgy, but also on basis of communication of the advantages of efficient stoves in improvement of the livelihoods of families and the prospects of childrean. Communication through marketing campaigns is therefore an important part of our projects and to meet its very considerable cost, carbon finance is essential to transformation of cooking practices.
The technical perfomance and consistent quality of all stoves within our projects, is essential to succesful up-scaling and reaching millions of peopel with the benefits of clean indoor air. Quality control systems, alongside continuous improvements of the technologies distributed, are essential, and to meet its considerable cost, carbon finance is essential to transformation of cooking habits.
Accurate monitoring of the actual performance of the stoves distributed in our projects is a key requirement of carbon-credit generating projects. Although this is required to verify atmospheric emission reductions, it sets a framework for ensuring that indoor air pollution is also taking place in reality, especially when linked to monitoring of sustainable development benefits under Gold Standard accreditation. Indeed our decision to conduct our cook-stove projects with Gold Standard accreditation is taken for this reason - to ensure that clean air and other social benefits are monitored effectively. Our work on methodolgy and verification has focused on in-kitchen random sampling which ensures that real-life conditions are monitored.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Gold Standard Methodology for Efficient Cook-stoves and Kitchen Regimes, May 2008, Gold Standard Foundation
Our Contribution to the Partnership
ClimateCare has funded the projects of other PCIA partners and has funded PCIA workshops and the travel costs of PCIA patners to these workshops. We have written articles for the bulletin. Our main contribution the development of increasingly large-scale projects which reduce indoor air pollution, and sharing lessons learned with the PCIA at PCIA workshops. We are continuing with all these activities.
