Successful Issuance of vintage 2022 GS VERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA

Today, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its eleventh issuance of Gold Standard VERs covering vintage 2022. After deduction of the share of proceeds to support CDM and Gold Standard operations and contribute to climate change adaptation activities, slightly more than 711,000 premium-quality GS VERs are available for sale to […]

Successful Issuance of vintage 2021 GS VERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA

Today, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its tenth issuance of Gold Standard VERs covering vintage 2021. After the deduction of the share of proceeds to support CDM and Gold Standard operations and contribute to climate change adaptation activities, nearly 750,000 premium-quality GS VERs are available for sale to help […]

Successful Issuance of vintage 2020 GS VERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA

Today, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its ninth issuance of Gold Standard VERs covering the year 2020. After deduction of the share of proceeds to support CDM and Gold Standard operations and contribute to climate change adaptation activities, slightly more than 723,000 premium-quality GS VERs are available for sale to help […]

German State of Hesse buys Gold Standard CERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA to offset GHG emissions from 2019 business travels

In August 2021, the state of Hesse became the first German federal state to purchase high-quality Gold Standard CERs from UPM’s flagship project, the Sichuan Household Biogas PoA in China. The emission credits (certificates) purchased and subsequently retired will be used to make the business travel (vehicle fleet, air and rail travel, and business travel […]

Successful Issuance of UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA 2019 Gold Standard CERs

UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its eighth issuance of Gold Standard CERs covering the year 2019. After deduction of the share of proceeds to support CDM and Gold Standards operations and contribute to climate change adaptation activities, 673,544 premium-quality GS CERs will be available for sale. Recently, the PoA […]

New McKinsey report confirms the importance of UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA for reducing GHG emissions from agriculture

Beijing/Munich, — 20 May 2020 | News Release This month, renowned strategy consultants McKinsey & Company have published a new report titled “Agriculture and climate change. Reducing emissions through improved farming practices”. This report deals with the key role of the agricultural sector for climate change mitigation, since more than one quarter of the world’s GHG emissions […]

New Study highlights the link between air pollution exposure and higher death rates from COVID 19

Beijing/Munich, — 20 April 2020 | News Release Almost 3 billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections. People exposed to air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than people living in areas with cleaner air, […]

New first-of-its-kind Carbon Offset Guide features UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA

Since 1 April 2020, a first-of-its-kind open-access climate action guide is available for businesses, organizations, and individuals looking to increase confidence that their purchases of carbon offsets will really achieve stated climate impact claims. This guide was created by the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute and the Stockholm Environment Institute through grant funding provided by the High Tide Foundation. This guide […]

UPM has first large sale of Sichuan Household Biogas CCERs in China’s carbon offset market

Earlier in this year, UPM has had its first large sale of China Certified Emissions Reductions (CCERs) from one of its two Sichuan Household Biogas CCER projects. These projects, each with annual GHG emissions reductions of around 50,000 tCO2e, have been specifically developed by UPM to meet China’s mandatory and voluntary CCER carbon offset demand. […]

UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA gets 7th issuance of Gold Standard CERs

On 15 January 2020, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its seventh issuance with nearly 823,000 Gold Standard CERs, all vintage 2018. After deduction of 2% of issued carbon credits as CDM share of proceeds for climate change adaptation cost assistance, slightly more than 806,000 premium-quality GS […]

UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA gets 6th issuance of Gold Standard CERs

On 31 October 2019, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) successfully obtained its sixth issuance with nearly 817,000 Gold Standard CERs, all vintage 2016. After deduction of 2% of issued carbon credits as CDM share of proceeds for climate change adaptation cost assistance, slightly more than 800,000 premium-quality GS […]