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SouthSouthNorth facilitates hands-on learning through projects as a way to build capacity for community based adaptation and for green house gas mitigation. This page describes SouthSouthNorth projects in Brazil, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Bangladesh and Indonesia. 1. All SSN 1 projects are CDM projects 2. SSN 2 projects are either: 1. Mitigation projects (CDM or otherwise); or 2. Adaptation projects; or 3. “MITad projects” – Mitigation projects with an adaptation element; or 4. “ADmit Projects” – Adaptation projects with a mitigation element. MITad and ADmit projects | MITIGATION projects | ADAPTATION projects | CDM Projects (SSN 1) projec ts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The project involves installation of 30 – 40 kW micro hydro power in Krueng Kala to supply electricity to the people living in the village and two other villages nearby as well as tsunami refugees from other village who went there for safer place.
Prior to the installation, a cooperative was established by the villagers. This new institution will hire two operators from local people to run the power plant on daily basis. The cooperative will sell electricity to the villagers and the profit generated will be used to improve the welfare of the villagers by, for example, providing scholarships for underprivileged children or low interest credits for local farmers and entrepreneurs depend on the decisions made by the villagers in community meetings.
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 PIN IBEKA Krueng Kala - for website - v 10 May 2007.pdf [258k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The project will install 85 kW of micro hydropower in Bungin village to generate electricity for its villagers. Prior to the installation, a cooperative was established by the villagers. The cooperative will sell electricity to the villagers and the profit generated will be used to improve the welfare of the villagers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PIN IBEKA Bungin Enrekang - for website - v 10 May 2007.pdf [264k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Biodiesel production from vegetable used oil picked up in communities by REMODELA (Cooperative from Campinas, State of São Paulo) and Use of Biodiesel in SANASA’s, Campinas Local public sanitation company ), municipal fleet. Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PIN-REMODELA_11_May_2007.pdf [255k] | more  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Collection of Used Vegetable Oil by poor Communities in Rio de Janeiro for Biodiesel Production and Use of Biodiesel in Coca-Cola’s Distributor, RJ Refrescos’s captive fleet. – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
For more information on this project, please contact Luciano Oliveira | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PIN_CoCa-Cola_11may2007newFN.pdf [260k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This project aim to produce electricity from Kidabwa stream in Zege village in the Usambara Mountains about 50 km southeast of Lushoto or 60km from Korogwe Township. The power plant will be 70kW with investment cost of USD 231,000. The village has 3118 inhabitants (2003 census). It is expected that out of a total of 607 households, around 300 will get connected to the hydropower paying US $ 4 every month for electricity. According to feasibility study of the project area showed that about 60 percent of the villagers are capable of paying electricity bills of up to 5 USD per month. This means that having an investment cost which is currently unaffordable to Zege villagers, maintenance and operation costs are within the villagers reach.
The project activity will involve constructing a micro hydro power plant with output capacity of 70 kW and constructing distribution lines to the consumers (households, social services institutions and small enterprises). A meter will be installed on main line and readings will be obtained every 24 hrs to establish amount of electricity used. The revenue accrued from the supplied electricity will be used by the villagers for maintenance of the plant and development activities.
Project Update Feasibility study has been conducted and report already prepared and sent to SSN Trust. Key stakeholder for a project in Zege village in Tanga were identified and briefed with all about the projects. Through consultations these stakeholders indicated willingness and interest to participate in this project. The PDT has been formulated PDD being prepared. Find below the feasibility report. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft PowerPoint - Micro-hyro project_Tanz_Mit_SSN2.ppt.pdf [1073k] Mcrohydro_Zege_October_2006_version_SSN2_Mitigation_Tanzania.pdf [140k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Use of biodiesel, which is a net zero emission in the transport sector, will reduce greenhouse gas emission. The amount of carbon dioxide reduction by the present project will be estimated considering the transportation of raw materials for biodiesel production and equipments to the biodiesel production site. Transportation of seeds to the extraction plants will use 10t truck. Biodiesel will be produced through vacuum process where water heater will be used as reactor and water cooler as condenser.
Calculation will be made on emissions from electricity, which will be used in the oil extraction machines and water heater and transportation of seeds and equipments to the biodiesel production site. All this will be deducted from the total GHG reduction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BIODIESEL_PIN_OCTOBER_2006_VERSION_Tanz_Mitig_SSN2.pdf [132k] CASHFLOW FOR BIODIESEL_Oct_2006_Tanz_mitig_SSN2.pdf [43k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The project aims at using manure from livestock to generate household energy, at the Province of Tete (Changara District) where livestock is abundant and forest are becoming scarce. For household lighting, the most common fuel locally used is kerosene and, in second place, diesel. Both of these energy sources are fossil-based refined fuels and, therefore, potential CO2 emitters to the atmosphere.
Therefore, the project activity will avoiding methane and nitrous oxide emissions as well as replacing the increasingly intensive use of firewood and liquid fossils, for cooking and lighting, respectively. Being biogas a renewable energy source, net CO2 emissions are inexistent and, the baseline will be mostly considered from what would happen in absence of this initiative. In fact, the most probable scenario would be to improve the release of methane from anaerobic degradation of swine manure. Also and as an indirect consequence, the use of kerosene or any other fossil based liquid fuel for lighting while, for cooking, the scarcity of firewood in the vicinity of major villages would result in an increased demand for the LPG. Far away from the villages, this would result in fuel switching to petroleum-based stoves. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Biogas for Hhold energy _TETE_ _3__PIN_Mozambique_Mitig_SSN2.pdf [287k] Biogas Pilot Project - described in pictures.pdf [452k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It is the aim of the project to develop a programmatic CDM methodology allowing for energy efficiency, water efficiency and renewable energy interventions in low- income housing throughout South Africa to be credited under the CDM.
For the latest report on this project, click on the 'more' button. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PROJECT UPDATE TEMPLATE - SA Mitig - Sectoral Baseline - 29 Aug 06.pdf [298k] | more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The project idea is to utilise waste fruit from the Elgin Juice Processing Plant for the production of Methanol or Ethanol. For an update on this project, click the 'more' button. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PROJECT UPDATE TEMPLATE - SA Elgin Mit- 29 Aug 06.pdf [114k] | more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Enhancing Coping and Adaptation Capacity of the Coastal Community to Reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change.
See two Bangladesh project descriptions with the above aims in the downloads below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bangladesh_Project_Satkhira.pdf [43k] Bangladesh_FloodProne.pdf [44k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The overall objective of this project of the SSN team, EPMS, in Tanzania, is the construction of new water wells to enable people affected by inundation that results from Climate Change to have reliable access to safe and clean drinking water and for other development processes in Bagamoyo district. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shifting ofWells_PIN_Oct_2006_Tanz_Adapt_SSN2.pdf [92k] | more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The project aims to support small-scale farmers in the project area in their efforts to adapt their farming practices to anticipated climate change to effectively support adaptation to climate change and sustainable resource use in the project area and elsewhere. This would be done by raising the awareness of farmers in the area about the changing climate and exploring the viability of cultivating Wild Rooibos as an adaptation strategy. Since rural women are among the most vulnerable land users we will also create specific activities for addressing their needs.
The project objectives are to:
On the 24th May 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for this project between SSN Africa represented by Steve Thorne, Indigo Development & Change, represented by Bettina Koelle and Environmental Monitoring Goup represented by Stephen Law. Project Update: In November 2007, a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been signed between the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) and SSN Africa for the implementation of a 16-month project that focuses on climate preparedness and wild rooibos propagation, to start in November 2007. This project is now funded by the SGP for an amount of US $ 50 000,00 and will end in March 2009. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rooibos Partner Profile _ Jan 08.pdf [27k] PROJECT UPDATE TEMPLATE_Rooibos Jan 08.pdf [37k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This Pilang project will develop and test methodologies in generating information and communicating climate vulnerability to local community. These information will be used in a participatory decision making process to develop adaptation strategies for the target population. This purpose will be accomplished as these objectives below are realized:
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| Ornamental fishing community livelihood in Bangsring_PIN.pdf [43k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This was designed as a small scale CDM project activity. However, it will be registered in due course as a regular scale project, considering that the project Baseline Methodology has now approved by the Executive Board on 29th September 2006 under Annex 3 - Approved baseline and monitoring methodology AM0036 (based on the case NM0140-rev) . The project activity which has already been implemented, relates to the recovery of biomass waste, consisting of fines and waste wood chips presently being land filled at a Richards Bay Municipal Landfill site, and the subsequent usage of the biomass waste augmented with plantation waste in a biomass fired power boiler as an alternative fuel to coal to generate steam at Mondi Kraft (Richards Bay). Please download the Profile of the small scale project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project was registered by the UNFCCC Executive Board on the 20th May 2007. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SA Mondi Biomass_Profile11.05.doc [254k] eb26_repan03.pdf [328k] Mondi_biomass_13_March_2005 .pdf [391k] | more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Latest News: Project Verification completed on 15th October 2007. Project Update VALIDATION: This Brazil project was Validated Oct/2005 by Bureau Veritas Quality International, one of the Brazilian DOEs. APPROVAL: The project received approval from the Brazilian DNA, the Interministerial Commission on Global Climate Change and the PDD was Approved by Brazilian DNA on October 14th, 2005. MONITORING: The project was monitored by Helio International. With the help of USINAVERDE pilot-plant manager, data has been checked and the monitoring protocol has been completed by Jacqueline Mariano of Helio. After studies, the total number of reduced tonne CO2 equivalent is around 2,000, for 180 days of the pilot-plant operation. This quantity fits on the one calculated on the PDD. VERIFICATION: BVQI , the same DOE that validated the project at the end of 2005 has recently performed VERIFICATION process in the USINAVERDE pilot-plant and generated an audit documentation oriented to the Voluntary Market, in order to put available the audited VERs to the market. The Date of Verification Report is October 14th, 2007. The amount of 1,823 ton CO2 eq were verified. TRANSACTION: A small quantity of VERs is not usually very attractive to buyers, but the fact the project is a new technology that has been tested and given the perspective of new industrial plants being built in many regions of Brazil, associated with Validation and Verification documentation, should increase interest of buyers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brazil Usinaverde_Profile03.04.pdf [722k] Usina Verde Verification Report rev 1 final 14_10-2007.pdf [478k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Brazil Biodiesel_Profile10.06.pdf [1205k] | more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bangladesh SHS_Profile 06.04.pdf [485k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is a small scale CDM project activity which relates to the reduction in fossil based energy consumption and hence CO2 emissions by means of three interventions aimed to improve thermal performance of low-income housing units, provide energy efficient lighting and solar water heating in these households. The housing units referred to are approximately 2300 units in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Please download the Profile of this project for full details. For more information, please find downloads on the South Africa page and on the Library page. This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! CURRENT UPDATE (15 May 2008) Funding from the Department of Environment and Tourism’s (DEAT’s), Social Responsibility Programme, has now become available, and in close consultation with the Urban Renewal Programme of the City of Cape Town, the retrofitting of 2 300 houses is kicking off with a community-wide survey during May 2008. Implementation will start from 1 June 2008. As part of the Special Public Works Programme, community empowerment, training and jobs are key features of the project. The South African Export Development Fund (SAEDF), which has underwritten the additional finance required for successful completion, has been appointed as the project-implementing agency. The SAEDF, under the guidance of a Project Advisory Committee, will be responsible for all aspects of implementation, including the setting up of a Community Trust. The Community Trust model will see the creation of a sustainable community owned energy services business. This business will create ongoing permanent employment and provide for the maintenance and monitoring of the installations for at least 7 years (the initial period over which the Certified Emission Reduction Certificate’s (CER’s) will be claimed) as well as for any extension of that period up to a maximum of 21 years. Income from the sale of Carbon Emission Reduction certificates as well as contributions from beneficiaries will finance the operations of the Trust – providing long-term opportunities for locally-based small and micro enterprises. The Trust will be directly accountable to Kuyasa residents and will use its surplus income to support future community development initiatives. For further information about this project, please contact the project manager, Carl Wesselink, carlw@iafrica.com, who says: “The big news - other than that we have the funds in our account, is the survey, which is now in the field. We have a few teams doing some low-key installation of electricity and this will expand to SWHs from the week after next with ceilings to follow. I have been interviewing people for the 60 contract work jobs. Another 2309 will be employed (one from each household) on a temporary basis - 1.5 days per month.” A De Facto Programme of Activities This project is used as an example of "De Facto Programmes of Activities" in the new CDM Rulebook published by Baker & McKenzie. This resource explains how projects registered prior to the publication of the detailed guidance and procedural documentation for Programme of Activities (PoA) in effect amount to de facto Programmes of Activities because they have aggregated the types of emissions reduction opportunities which Programmatic CDM is designed at facilitating - highly dispersed and small scale. The Rulebook explains that projects such as Kuyasa did not benefit from the ability to add additional CDM Programme Activities (CPAs) using the same framework, as is possible under the PoA rules, but do provide an insight into how Programmes of Activities may be implemented and the requirements that may be imposed on them by the Executive Board. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SA Kuyasa_Profile11.2005.doc [1450k] Kuyasa_PDD.pdf [155k] KuyasaSocialResearch_Final.pdf [699k] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First Large Scale CDM Methodology Approved | ||
| The Executive Board has now approved our Energy from Biomass baseline methodology on 29th September 2006 for our South African Mondi Richards Bay project under Annex 3 - Approved baseline and monitoring methodology AM0036 (based on the case NM0140-rev)
making this SSN's first large scale CDM project.
This project which has already been implemented and was first prepared as a small-scale project will be registered in due course as a regular scale project. For more details on this project, please go to our Southern Africa page. | ||
| USINAVERDE: Combustion of Urban Refused Derived Fuel: methane avoidance and renewable energy generation | ||
| BVQI , the same DOE that validated the project at the end of 2005 have now finalised their Verification of the project. The team received the Certificate of Verification on the 15th October 2007.
This Brazil project was Validated Oct/2005 by Bureau Veritas Quality International, one of the Brazilian DOEs. The project recieved approval from the Brazilian DNA, the Interministerial Commission on Global Climate Change and the PDD was Approved by Brazilian DNA on October 14th, 2005. | ||
| South African Kuyasa Low-Cost Housing retrofit registered | ||
| This is the first African CDM project to be registered in the world. It is also the first Gold Standard Project in the World.
The first SSN project was registered on the 29th August 2005 - it is the Kuyasa low cost housing project which involves the installation of solar water heaters, efficient lamps and insulated ceilings in existing low-cost housing. The project involves setting a baseline that includes the suppressed demand for the energy services, in other words, providing an inflated baseline emissions level because the level of service is expected to rise into the future. We feel that this will facilitate and advantage poverty reduction projects that have CDM dimensions into the future. The Kuyasa project employs more than one methodology (it is a bundle of 3). Replication will look to a large scale methodology broad enough to cover existing and Greenfield housing developments into the future. For more details on this project, please go to our Southern Africa page. | ||
| First Transaction of Kuyasa Gold Standard CERS | ||
| The Cape Town City Council, owners of the Kuyasa low cost housing energy upgrade project in Khayelitsha, South Africa, has sold the project's first 10,000 CERs to the UK government to offset greenhouse gas emissions from the recent G8 summit at Gleneagles. The credits were sold for the highest price CER price yet to be publicly disclosed, 15Euros. The premium is acknowledge to be due to the projects status as 'registered', and as Gold Standard. The credits will be delivered between 2006 and 2008, and the project has over 110,000 still available. The City is currently considering its sales strategy for the remainder. |