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 than 2.25 million tons of CO2.
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.
Only slightly more than three and a half years after the start of its reduction period on 10th of May 2012, our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA already has avoided the impressive amount of 2 million tons of GHG emissions. These GHG savings are sufficient to compensate for the annual carbon footprint of roughly 200,000 German citizens.
On Monday 26th October, ClubMed Dong’ao Resort and UPM launched a new voluntary offset services for ClubMed Dong’ao resort’s guests. Under the slogan “I Travel Carbon Neutral” the service will offer to ClubMed guests the opportunity to compensate the carbon emissions generated by their air travel to and from the resort in China by supporting UPM’s award-winning emissions reduction project, our Gold Standard CDM Sichuan Household Biogas Program.
Beijng, Munich, 30.06.2015
Only a bit more than half a year after reaching the 1-million-milestone, our groundbreaking “Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme” has now saved a total of 1.5 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of its reduction period on 10th of May 2012.
Beyond its outstanding climate protection impact, this Programme of Activities (PoA) substantially improves income, environmental conditions, health and quality of living of 400,000 participating low-income farmer families, i.e. nearly 1.8 million people, and thus contributes to sustainable regional development in remote mountain areas of China’s Sichuan province.
The next issuance of the PoA’s much sought after Gold Standard CERs (GS CERs) is scheduled for November 2015 with roundabout 600,000 GS CERs.
For further information on this globally unique PoA and the availability of its GS CERs, please visit the PoA website or contact us.
On June 23rd in Paris, our colleague and UPM’s long-term advisor Dr. Ralph Westermann will contribute as a speaker to EcoAct’s most prominent Cap COP21 Climate Innovation Day. He will present UPM’s internationally recognized Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas PoA as a successful pioneer solution for climate protection and sustainable development and focus explicitly on the PoA’s numerous innovative aspects, its large and verifiable co-benefits for participating poor rural households and its numerous advantages for potential carbon offset clients in search of premium quality projects.
Our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA was selected among dozens of projects to be part of the final programme of a study tour on Ecological & Sustainable Rural Sanitation in China co-organized by GIZ Morocco, the AGIRE Programme and the Centre of Sustainable Environmental Sanitation of the University Science and Technology of Beijing (USTB), with the support of UPM.
On 29th of January 2015, our “Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme” (PoA) has successfully included a new batch of 14 Component Project Activities (CPAs). As a consequence, more than 64,000 additional low income Sichuan rural households are using the advanced biogas digesters as well as the convenient and smoke free cook stoves purchased with support by the PoA.
Combined with the 73 CPA subprojects already included before, a total of 87 CPAs save GHG emissions and generate Gold Standard CERs within this PoA. These 87 CPAs enable almost 400,000 poor and underprivileged farmer families in remote areas of Sichuan to produce and use their own climate-friendly renewable energy and become independent from costly, dirty and unhealthy fossil fuels.
“By adding 14 new CPAs we consequently keep on scaling up our Sichuan Household Biogas PoA to one of the world’s largest and most successful programmes for climate change mitigation and sustainable development within the frameworks of the CDM and the Gold Standard“, comments Martin Dilger, Managing Director of German UPM GmbH.
For further information on this PoA and the availability of its premium quality GS CERs, please contact:
Ms Gaiai Guo, Vice General Manager, UPM China
guog(at)upm-cdm.eu, T: +86 10 6468 0500-13
or
Martin Dilger, Managing Director, UPM Germany
mdilger(at)upm-cdm.eu, T: +49 89 41419691
Official information on this CPA inclusion and related documents are available on the UNFCCC CDM website at
https://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/inclusions/gotoInc?id=O5LMKDVYUXFTWJE8SH1364A02GN9CR
We are very proud to announce that as you can see on the counter on the homepage, our flagship PoA, the “Sichuan Poor Rural-Household Biogas Development Programme”, has now saved a total of one million tons of GHG emissions from being released into the earth’s atmosphere since the beginning of its reduction period on 10th of May 2012.
Beijing/Munich, 17.10.2014
Today, our most respected Sichuan Household Biogas Development Programme received its second issuance of carbon credits. This time, almost 390,000 Gold Standard Certified Emission Reductions (GS CERs) have been transferred to us!