Significant project milestones for UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA: 5th successful issuance and program extension until 2026
After having successfully obtained its fifth issuance on 29 January 2019 with nearly 830,000 Gold Standard CERs, all vintage 2017, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme has recently also been extended for another seven years until 10 April 2026. “This latest issuance of our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA and the extension of its crediting […]
UPM supports new ClimateSeed climate-action platform with Gold Standard carbon credits from its Sichuan Household Biogas Programme
Beijing/Munich, 11 March 2019 | News Release From now on, UPM sells Gold Standard carbon credits from its much sought-after Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Programme via ClimateSeed, a new climate-action platform which is a BNP Paribas initiative and a Social Business recognized by Nobel Peace Prize Prof. Yunus. It is 100% dedicated to solving human […]
UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA selected for the 3rd year by the German Federal Government to offset business trip’s GHG emissions.
Beijing/Munich, 14 January 2019 | News Release The German Government, through its Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit) has recently announcedthe result of a new tender aiming at offsetting the unavoidable carbon emissions produced by all business trips (service vehicles and air travel) of […]
Remarkable Achievement towards Climate Change Mitigation: UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA avoids 4.5 Million Tons of GHG Emissions
Beijing/Munich, 03 December 2018 | News Release UPM is delighted to announce that its Gold Standard and CDM certified Sichuan Household Biogas Programme of Activities (PoA) has avoided to date a total of 4.5 million tons of GHG emissions. This new emission reduction milestone is equivalent to GHG emissions of almost 1 million passenger cars […]
UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA gets its 4th Issuance and will be showcased at the upcoming Gold Standard’s Grow to Zero Conference
Beijing/Munich, 16 April 2018 | News Release On 10 April 2018, UPM’s flagship project, the Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme of Activities (PoA), had its fourth issuance with nearly 750,000 Gold Standard CERs (GS CERs), all of them from vintage year 2015.
UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas Programme is the first ever to be certified under the new Gold Standard for the Global Goals
Beijing/Munich, 26 March 2018 | News Release On 31 January 2018, UPM’s Sichuan Rural Poor Household Biogas Development Programme (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239) has been successfully migrated to the new Gold Standard for the Global Goals (GS4GG). According to information from the Gold Standard, it is the first Programme of Activities (PoA) worldwide to […]
UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA enters BP Target Neutral project portfolio
We are pleased to announce that our award-winning GS CDM Sichuan Household Biogas PoA is now part of the BP Target Neutral portfolio of carbon offsetting projects. The programme was put forward by Natural Capital Partners, specialists in the sale of offset projects to corporate clients around the world and the company responsible for the transaction […]
Our PoA helps We Belong Forums China 2016 becoming carbon neutral
We are delighted to announce that its flagship GS CDM Sichuan Household Biogas PoA has been selected by the participants of the We Belong Forums 2016 to offset the GHG emissions of the events hosted in Beijing & Shanghai in October 2016. Our French business partner EcoAct was the carbon offset sponsor of these events on sustainable […]
Reaching a new Milestone for the promotion of climate change mitigation and the SDGs: UPM Sichuan Household Biogas PoA avoids 3 Million Tons of GHG Emissions
Beijing/Munich, 13 March 2017 We are pleased to announce that our award-winning GS CDM Sichuan Household Biogas PoA has avoided 3 million Tons of GHG emissions since its establishment. UPM PoA is the first CDM household biogas PoA to reach this impressive CO2 emission avoidance milestone worldwide and the second of all PoA registered under the CDM. […]
UPM rolls out Independent Scientific Study on the Co-Benefits of its Sichuan Household Biogas PoA
Today, UPM publishes a comprehensive scientific study on the co-benefits of its “Sichuan Rural Poor- Household Biogas Programme of Activities” (CDM PoA 2898, Gold Standard 1239), which currently supports nearly 400,000 low-income rural households in China’s Sichuan province with advanced biogas digesters and smoke-free biogas cook stoves. For this study, UPM has appointed the Centre for […]
Third Issuance of Gold Standard CERs from our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA
Today, UPM announces that our flagship climate protection programme, the Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas PoA (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239), received its third issuance of carbon credits. This time, around 613,000 Gold Standard Certified Emission Reductions (GS CERs), all vintage 2014, have been transferred to UPM. To date, the PoA has avoided a total of more […]
German Government travels get climate neutral thanks to our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA
Our much respected Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas PoA (CDM PoA 2898, GS 1239), is one of only five climate protection projects that have recently been selected by the German Government to offset the negative climate impact of necessary business trips by its employees in 2014.