Projects |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Project Portfolio And Reports | |||||
| |||||
| In SSN 2, the
South African, Tanzanian and Mozambiquan
teams are pursuing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change projects. For more information on these SSN 2 projects, please visit
our Project Portfolio Page
For Reports, please use the drop down menu on the left of this page. | |||||
| |||||
| SSN Africa has completed a REEEP funded project which set out to facilitate the financing of smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency CDM projects in Southern Africa using the Gold Standard (GS) as leverage. Even though a significant demand for African Gold Standard carbon credits exists internationally; substantial challenges, particulary related to financing, exist in the implementation of these projects.
The project aimed to secure financial close of at least two Gold Standard RE/EE CDM case study projects; one each in Tanzania and Mozambique. It was hoped that introducing carbon finance into the financing structure of these projects would assist them in successfully securing financing/funding. However as the project progressed it became apparent that these outputs were too ambitious, given the low level of knowledge on CDM in the partner countries, slow progress of projects and the lack of robust feasibility information from the projects which would enable financiers and funders to engage with them and attract interest. The focus of the REEEP project therefore changed to the development of sound business plans as a first step in obtaining this initial financing. Project Outputs included:
See also the article on this under Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on our Library page An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
 BIODIESEL BP_June 07.pdf [147k] Clean Energy and Water _PVP_ Project Business Plan.pdf [63k] Biogas Project Business Plan.pdf [62k] Lessons and Guidance for using GS Carbon Finance in RE EE projects in Africa.pdf [511k] MICRO HYDRO BP_ July07.pdf [198k] Securing financing for RE-EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM_Steve_Thorne_COP12.ppt [1886k] | |||||
| |||||
| This project will develop a sustainable financing model to enable the financing of replications of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project.
A stakeholder workshop was held on the 27th July 2006 with funding from REEEP by SSN Africa. The SSN Project, the Kuyasa Low Income Housing Energy Upgrade project, was recently registered with the CDM Executive Board, and delivers benefits to impoverished urban communities in the areas of health, energy service delivery, employment creation and poverty alleviation. Immense opportunity for replication of the Kuyasa project at a national level exists with over 1.5 million existing low income houses in South Africa that could benefit from its project design. As the Kuyasa has been primarily funded through once-off grant funding, access to sustainable financing is key to the replicability of the project. The REEEP funding will enable the implementing agency, SouthSouthNorth, to develop a financial model which can be used to access financing by project implementers in the future. The final product will include an outline of the various financing options available to energy upgrade project implementers, together with a demonstration replication project fully financed along the lines of the model. It is envisaged that this model will provide an efficient way for project developers to access funding through programmatic CDM as well as through Government funded Demand Side Management incentives. Combined with efficient, streamlined, and bundled approaches, economies of scale should enable many low-income households to reap sustainable development benefits resulting from this project. SSN is working to leverage suitable institutional elements for this model to provide maximum access. Partners in this venture include the Central Energy Fund and the National Energy Efficiency Agency of South Africa which seeks to satisfy the South African government’s policy for achieving energy efficiency targets. For more information, please see items filed under the Reports section of this page (top left) labelled Renewable Energy Model. An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| |||||
 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.
This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! Please visit our Project Portfolio page for more information. There you will be able to download the full project Profile of this project, as well as the Project Design Document and the Kuyasa Social Research Study. | |||||
| |||||
 This is a small-scale CDM project activity which relates to the capture and recovery of gas that would have otherwise been emitted and percolated to the atmosphere, and the use of this landfill gas as a fuel by the adjacent industrial community.
Please download the Profile of this project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project has suffered from Institutional issues. The project is financially viable dependent on the financial structure and nature of the project implementing entities. Identification of the selling counterparty to a carbon transaction still need to be resolved by the Cape Town City Council, but the City has now requested that SSN find the appropriate developer for this project through a tender process by February 2007; thus this project will probably finally proceed with implementation in 2007. | |||||
| SA Belville_Landfill_Profile05.05.pdf [116k] Bellville Landfill PDD.pdf [277k] | |||||
| |||||
| In SSN 2, the
South African, Tanzanian and Mozambiquan
teams are pursuing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change projects. For more information on these SSN 2 projects, please visit
our Project Portfolio Page
For Reports, please use the drop down menu on the left of this page. | |||||
| |||||
| SSN Africa has completed a REEEP funded project which set out to facilitate the financing of smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency CDM projects in Southern Africa using the Gold Standard (GS) as leverage. Even though a significant demand for African Gold Standard carbon credits exists internationally; substantial challenges, particulary related to financing, exist in the implementation of these projects.
The project aimed to secure financial close of at least two Gold Standard RE/EE CDM case study projects; one each in Tanzania and Mozambique. It was hoped that introducing carbon finance into the financing structure of these projects would assist them in successfully securing financing/funding. However as the project progressed it became apparent that these outputs were too ambitious, given the low level of knowledge on CDM in the partner countries, slow progress of projects and the lack of robust feasibility information from the projects which would enable financiers and funders to engage with them and attract interest. The focus of the REEEP project therefore changed to the development of sound business plans as a first step in obtaining this initial financing. Project Outputs included:
See also the article on this under Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on our Library page An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| BIODIESEL BP_June 07.pdf [147k] Clean Energy and Water _PVP_ Project Business Plan.pdf [63k] Biogas Project Business Plan.pdf [62k] Lessons and Guidance for using GS Carbon Finance in RE EE projects in Africa.pdf [511k] MICRO HYDRO BP_ July07.pdf [198k] Securing financing for RE-EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM_Steve_Thorne_COP12.ppt [1886k] | |||||
| |||||
| This project will develop a sustainable financing model to enable the financing of replications of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project.
A stakeholder workshop was held on the 27th July 2006 with funding from REEEP by SSN Africa. The SSN Project, the Kuyasa Low Income Housing Energy Upgrade project, was recently registered with the CDM Executive Board, and delivers benefits to impoverished urban communities in the areas of health, energy service delivery, employment creation and poverty alleviation. Immense opportunity for replication of the Kuyasa project at a national level exists with over 1.5 million existing low income houses in South Africa that could benefit from its project design. As the Kuyasa has been primarily funded through once-off grant funding, access to sustainable financing is key to the replicability of the project. The REEEP funding will enable the implementing agency, SouthSouthNorth, to develop a financial model which can be used to access financing by project implementers in the future. The final product will include an outline of the various financing options available to energy upgrade project implementers, together with a demonstration replication project fully financed along the lines of the model. It is envisaged that this model will provide an efficient way for project developers to access funding through programmatic CDM as well as through Government funded Demand Side Management incentives. Combined with efficient, streamlined, and bundled approaches, economies of scale should enable many low-income households to reap sustainable development benefits resulting from this project. SSN is working to leverage suitable institutional elements for this model to provide maximum access. Partners in this venture include the Central Energy Fund and the National Energy Efficiency Agency of South Africa which seeks to satisfy the South African government’s policy for achieving energy efficiency targets. For more information, please see items filed under the Reports section of this page (top left) labelled Renewable Energy Model. An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| |||||
| 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.
This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! Please visit our Project Portfolio page for more information. There you will be able to download the full project Profile of this project, as well as the Project Design Document and the Kuyasa Social Research Study. | |||||
| |||||
| This is a small-scale CDM project activity which relates to the capture and recovery of gas that would have otherwise been emitted and percolated to the atmosphere, and the use of this landfill gas as a fuel by the adjacent industrial community.
Please download the Profile of this project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project has suffered from Institutional issues. The project is financially viable dependent on the financial structure and nature of the project implementing entities. Identification of the selling counterparty to a carbon transaction still need to be resolved by the Cape Town City Council, but the City has now requested that SSN find the appropriate developer for this project through a tender process by February 2007; thus this project will probably finally proceed with implementation in 2007. | |||||
| SA Belville_Landfill_Profile05.05.pdf [116k] Bellville Landfill PDD.pdf [277k] | |||||
| |||||
| In SSN 2, the
South African, Tanzanian and Mozambiquan
teams are pursuing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change projects. For more information on these SSN 2 projects, please visit
our Project Portfolio Page
For Reports, please use the drop down menu on the left of this page. | |||||
| |||||
| SSN Africa has completed a REEEP funded project which set out to facilitate the financing of smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency CDM projects in Southern Africa using the Gold Standard (GS) as leverage. Even though a significant demand for African Gold Standard carbon credits exists internationally; substantial challenges, particulary related to financing, exist in the implementation of these projects.
The project aimed to secure financial close of at least two Gold Standard RE/EE CDM case study projects; one each in Tanzania and Mozambique. It was hoped that introducing carbon finance into the financing structure of these projects would assist them in successfully securing financing/funding. However as the project progressed it became apparent that these outputs were too ambitious, given the low level of knowledge on CDM in the partner countries, slow progress of projects and the lack of robust feasibility information from the projects which would enable financiers and funders to engage with them and attract interest. The focus of the REEEP project therefore changed to the development of sound business plans as a first step in obtaining this initial financing. Project Outputs included:
See also the article on this under Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on our Library page An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| BIODIESEL BP_June 07.pdf [147k] Clean Energy and Water _PVP_ Project Business Plan.pdf [63k] Biogas Project Business Plan.pdf [62k] Lessons and Guidance for using GS Carbon Finance in RE EE projects in Africa.pdf [511k] MICRO HYDRO BP_ July07.pdf [198k] Securing financing for RE-EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM_Steve_Thorne_COP12.ppt [1886k] | |||||
| |||||
| This project will develop a sustainable financing model to enable the financing of replications of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project.
A stakeholder workshop was held on the 27th July 2006 with funding from REEEP by SSN Africa. The SSN Project, the Kuyasa Low Income Housing Energy Upgrade project, was recently registered with the CDM Executive Board, and delivers benefits to impoverished urban communities in the areas of health, energy service delivery, employment creation and poverty alleviation. Immense opportunity for replication of the Kuyasa project at a national level exists with over 1.5 million existing low income houses in South Africa that could benefit from its project design. As the Kuyasa has been primarily funded through once-off grant funding, access to sustainable financing is key to the replicability of the project. The REEEP funding will enable the implementing agency, SouthSouthNorth, to develop a financial model which can be used to access financing by project implementers in the future. The final product will include an outline of the various financing options available to energy upgrade project implementers, together with a demonstration replication project fully financed along the lines of the model. It is envisaged that this model will provide an efficient way for project developers to access funding through programmatic CDM as well as through Government funded Demand Side Management incentives. Combined with efficient, streamlined, and bundled approaches, economies of scale should enable many low-income households to reap sustainable development benefits resulting from this project. SSN is working to leverage suitable institutional elements for this model to provide maximum access. Partners in this venture include the Central Energy Fund and the National Energy Efficiency Agency of South Africa which seeks to satisfy the South African government’s policy for achieving energy efficiency targets. For more information, please see items filed under the Reports section of this page (top left) labelled Renewable Energy Model. An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| |||||
| 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.
This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! Please visit our Project Portfolio page for more information. There you will be able to download the full project Profile of this project, as well as the Project Design Document and the Kuyasa Social Research Study. | |||||
| |||||
| This is a small-scale CDM project activity which relates to the capture and recovery of gas that would have otherwise been emitted and percolated to the atmosphere, and the use of this landfill gas as a fuel by the adjacent industrial community.
Please download the Profile of this project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project has suffered from Institutional issues. The project is financially viable dependent on the financial structure and nature of the project implementing entities. Identification of the selling counterparty to a carbon transaction still need to be resolved by the Cape Town City Council, but the City has now requested that SSN find the appropriate developer for this project through a tender process by February 2007; thus this project will probably finally proceed with implementation in 2007. | |||||
| SA Belville_Landfill_Profile05.05.pdf [116k] Bellville Landfill PDD.pdf [277k] | |||||
| |||||
| In SSN 2, the
South African, Tanzanian and Mozambiquan
teams are pursuing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change projects. For more information on these SSN 2 projects, please visit
our Project Portfolio Page
For Reports, please use the drop down menu on the left of this page. | |||||
| |||||
| SSN Africa has completed a REEEP funded project which set out to facilitate the financing of smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency CDM projects in Southern Africa using the Gold Standard (GS) as leverage. Even though a significant demand for African Gold Standard carbon credits exists internationally; substantial challenges, particulary related to financing, exist in the implementation of these projects.
The project aimed to secure financial close of at least two Gold Standard RE/EE CDM case study projects; one each in Tanzania and Mozambique. It was hoped that introducing carbon finance into the financing structure of these projects would assist them in successfully securing financing/funding. However as the project progressed it became apparent that these outputs were too ambitious, given the low level of knowledge on CDM in the partner countries, slow progress of projects and the lack of robust feasibility information from the projects which would enable financiers and funders to engage with them and attract interest. The focus of the REEEP project therefore changed to the development of sound business plans as a first step in obtaining this initial financing. Project Outputs included:
See also the article on this under Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on our Library page An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| BIODIESEL BP_June 07.pdf [147k] Clean Energy and Water _PVP_ Project Business Plan.pdf [63k] Biogas Project Business Plan.pdf [62k] Lessons and Guidance for using GS Carbon Finance in RE EE projects in Africa.pdf [511k] MICRO HYDRO BP_ July07.pdf [198k] Securing financing for RE-EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM_Steve_Thorne_COP12.ppt [1886k] | |||||
| |||||
| This project will develop a sustainable financing model to enable the financing of replications of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project.
A stakeholder workshop was held on the 27th July 2006 with funding from REEEP by SSN Africa. The SSN Project, the Kuyasa Low Income Housing Energy Upgrade project, was recently registered with the CDM Executive Board, and delivers benefits to impoverished urban communities in the areas of health, energy service delivery, employment creation and poverty alleviation. Immense opportunity for replication of the Kuyasa project at a national level exists with over 1.5 million existing low income houses in South Africa that could benefit from its project design. As the Kuyasa has been primarily funded through once-off grant funding, access to sustainable financing is key to the replicability of the project. The REEEP funding will enable the implementing agency, SouthSouthNorth, to develop a financial model which can be used to access financing by project implementers in the future. The final product will include an outline of the various financing options available to energy upgrade project implementers, together with a demonstration replication project fully financed along the lines of the model. It is envisaged that this model will provide an efficient way for project developers to access funding through programmatic CDM as well as through Government funded Demand Side Management incentives. Combined with efficient, streamlined, and bundled approaches, economies of scale should enable many low-income households to reap sustainable development benefits resulting from this project. SSN is working to leverage suitable institutional elements for this model to provide maximum access. Partners in this venture include the Central Energy Fund and the National Energy Efficiency Agency of South Africa which seeks to satisfy the South African government’s policy for achieving energy efficiency targets. For more information, please see items filed under the Reports section of this page (top left) labelled Renewable Energy Model. An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| |||||
| 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.
This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! Please visit our Project Portfolio page for more information. There you will be able to download the full project Profile of this project, as well as the Project Design Document and the Kuyasa Social Research Study. | |||||
| |||||
| This is a small-scale CDM project activity which relates to the capture and recovery of gas that would have otherwise been emitted and percolated to the atmosphere, and the use of this landfill gas as a fuel by the adjacent industrial community.
Please download the Profile of this project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project has suffered from Institutional issues. The project is financially viable dependent on the financial structure and nature of the project implementing entities. Identification of the selling counterparty to a carbon transaction still need to be resolved by the Cape Town City Council, but the City has now requested that SSN find the appropriate developer for this project through a tender process by February 2007; thus this project will probably finally proceed with implementation in 2007. | |||||
| SA Belville_Landfill_Profile05.05.pdf [116k] Bellville Landfill PDD.pdf [277k] | |||||
| |||||
| In SSN 2, the
South African, Tanzanian and Mozambiquan
teams are pursuing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change projects. For more information on these SSN 2 projects, please visit
our Project Portfolio Page
For Reports, please use the drop down menu on the left of this page. | |||||
| |||||
| SSN Africa has completed a REEEP funded project which set out to facilitate the financing of smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency CDM projects in Southern Africa using the Gold Standard (GS) as leverage. Even though a significant demand for African Gold Standard carbon credits exists internationally; substantial challenges, particulary related to financing, exist in the implementation of these projects.
The project aimed to secure financial close of at least two Gold Standard RE/EE CDM case study projects; one each in Tanzania and Mozambique. It was hoped that introducing carbon finance into the financing structure of these projects would assist them in successfully securing financing/funding. However as the project progressed it became apparent that these outputs were too ambitious, given the low level of knowledge on CDM in the partner countries, slow progress of projects and the lack of robust feasibility information from the projects which would enable financiers and funders to engage with them and attract interest. The focus of the REEEP project therefore changed to the development of sound business plans as a first step in obtaining this initial financing. Project Outputs included:
See also the article on this under Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency on our Library page An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| BIODIESEL BP_June 07.pdf [147k] Clean Energy and Water _PVP_ Project Business Plan.pdf [63k] Biogas Project Business Plan.pdf [62k] Lessons and Guidance for using GS Carbon Finance in RE EE projects in Africa.pdf [511k] MICRO HYDRO BP_ July07.pdf [198k] Securing financing for RE-EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM_Steve_Thorne_COP12.ppt [1886k] | |||||
| |||||
| This project will develop a sustainable financing model to enable the financing of replications of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project.
A stakeholder workshop was held on the 27th July 2006 with funding from REEEP by SSN Africa. The SSN Project, the Kuyasa Low Income Housing Energy Upgrade project, was recently registered with the CDM Executive Board, and delivers benefits to impoverished urban communities in the areas of health, energy service delivery, employment creation and poverty alleviation. Immense opportunity for replication of the Kuyasa project at a national level exists with over 1.5 million existing low income houses in South Africa that could benefit from its project design. As the Kuyasa has been primarily funded through once-off grant funding, access to sustainable financing is key to the replicability of the project. The REEEP funding will enable the implementing agency, SouthSouthNorth, to develop a financial model which can be used to access financing by project implementers in the future. The final product will include an outline of the various financing options available to energy upgrade project implementers, together with a demonstration replication project fully financed along the lines of the model. It is envisaged that this model will provide an efficient way for project developers to access funding through programmatic CDM as well as through Government funded Demand Side Management incentives. Combined with efficient, streamlined, and bundled approaches, economies of scale should enable many low-income households to reap sustainable development benefits resulting from this project. SSN is working to leverage suitable institutional elements for this model to provide maximum access. Partners in this venture include the Central Energy Fund and the National Energy Efficiency Agency of South Africa which seeks to satisfy the South African government’s policy for achieving energy efficiency targets. For more information, please see items filed under the Reports section of this page (top left) labelled Renewable Energy Model. An initiative of REEEP is their information gateway on renewable and energy efficiency. To visit that site, visit reegle. | |||||
| |||||
| 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.
This is the first CDM project to have been registered in Africa and the first Gold Standard project in the world! Please visit our Project Portfolio page for more information. There you will be able to download the full project Profile of this project, as well as the Project Design Document and the Kuyasa Social Research Study. | |||||
| |||||
| This is a small-scale CDM project activity which relates to the capture and recovery of gas that would have otherwise been emitted and percolated to the atmosphere, and the use of this landfill gas as a fuel by the adjacent industrial community.
Please download the Profile of this project for more information. PROJECT UPDATE This project has suffered from Institutional issues. The project is financially viable dependent on the financial structure and nature of the project implementing entities. Identification of the selling counterparty to a carbon transaction still need to be resolved by the Cape Town City Council, but the City has now requested that SSN find the appropriate developer for this project through a tender process by February 2007; thus this project will probably finally proceed with implementation in 2007. | |||||
| SA Belville_Landfill_Profile05.05.pdf [116k] Bellville Landfill PDD.pdf [277k] | |||||
| link to this page |
|
|
||
| More SSN Southern Africa Projects | ||
| For more SSN Southern Africa projects, please go to our
Project Portfolio Page
| ||
| Reports | ||
| For more information, such as our country profile and regarding our activities and projects, please go to the Reports Menu to the left of this page. | ||
| Fruit and Wine Farmers in the Western Cape face CDM opportunities | ||
| Fruit and wine farmers in the Western Cape are faced with increased costs and volatile exchange rates which threaten a successful export industry. At the same time, markets in developed countries, which can afford to be more selective, are increasingly demanding environmentally friendly products. The Mitigation team in South Africa is partnering with Elgin Fruit Juices, a cooperative of fruit farmers in Elgin, and is also in communication with a well-known wine farmer in the Western Cape, to develop a CDM project that will give credit for increased collection and use of wasted fruit, effectively lengthening the picking season for poor seasonal pickers by several weeks.
According to SSN’s Lester Malgas, such organic wastes will be used to provide energy for use by these industries by producing methane through bio-digestion and perhaps by producing ethanol. “This type of closed loop system makes it possible for project partners in the agricultural sector to benefit from renewable energy by the producers of wastes that would otherwise produce harmful greenhouse gases.” Thus farmers can reduce their dependence on grid electricity, possibly gain a cheaper source of electricity and also a competitive edge in the export market. | ||
| Cities of Pretoria/Tshawane and Basel: Clean Development Mechanism Housing Project Workshop | ||
| South Africa’s capital city, Tshwane (Pretoria), is the latest partner to have joined the Sectoral Housing CDM project in South Africa. This project already includes Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape and Mitchell’s Plain and Mfuleni in the Western Cape to develop a sectoral CDM project which builds on the success of SSN’s Kuyasa low-cost Housing Project.
Using the CDM to assist the poor to receive minor improvements to houses that will provide them with hot running water and insulation, as examples, also offers health and financial benefit to these poorest of householders. By developing a sectoral CDM project, various partners can participate in the same methodology, with similar activities. On the 3rd and 4th of October, 2006, a workshop will be held to help build the capacity of the Tshwane Municipality to integrate the CDM into their housing delivery model. This workshop will be opened by Mayor Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa of Tshwane and Mayor Dr. Barbara Schneider of Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, which cities are twinned. The ultimate aim is to help Tshwane to come up with housing projects with sustainable development benefits that will produce emission reduction credits that can help Basel’s administration to become carbon neutral. Mayor Dr. Gwen Ramokgopa referring to South Africa’s renewable energy target of 10 000 gigawatt hours by 2013 and an energy efficiency target of 12% by 2014, states: “These renewable energy and energy efficiency targets combined with Canton of Basel-Stadt emission reduction obligations provide an excellent opportunity for mutual collaboration between the two cities under the CDM.” This workshop has been timed to coincide with the launch of the ZeroCarbonCity Programme supported by the British Council, since these two events compliment each other. | ||
| Adaptation Activities in South Africa – Challenges and Questions | ||
| The adaptation team in South Africa comprises Adéle Arendse, Rosa Blaauw and Steve Thorne in his capacity as the Lead for South Africa. Their projects derive from research undertaken pursuant to the SSN Adaptation Projects Protocol for Community Based Adaptation (SSNAPP for CBA) promoted by the SSN Adaptation Programme. This process highlighted the areas where poor communities who are vulnerable to climate change are located. Working in consultation with partners who are working in these communities in these areas, project ideas are being generated for assessment under the SSN Matrix of indicators. These indicators include two essential ones for SSN 2, namely the improvement of livelihoods and the building of human and/or institutional capacity. In all cases SSN is interested in the development of projects with clearly identifiable climate change elements, and which would not have happened without our intervention.
Discussions with partners have been ongoing since early in 2006. Aspects in SSN 2 which are being faced by the SSN Adaptation team in South Africa include concern for the different needs of project partners as their priorities and whether SSN should concern itself with elements which are of concern to project partners but which may or may not specifically have both direct climate change and poverty reduction elements. This arises due to the different nature of SSN 2 to SSN 1 where projects were chosen and project partner found to implement them with us. In SSN 2, by contrast, at least in the Adaptation Programme, project communities are first identified by the SSNAPP for CBA methodology, after which project partners are found who work with these communities. Thereafter, project partners come up with project ideas. Thus the question arises as to who ‘owns’ the project. It is of interest for SSN that the community has ownership of the project, but this opens debate about what the parameters are for SSN’s contribution. Different partners each see SSN in a subtly different role. Some see us as facilitators, others as consultants and/or technology advisors and/or climate change specialists, while others see us as helping to create funding opportunities in their projects, or even as funders. As a learning organisation with an interest in innovation, SSN’s approach is in some cases still unfolding and there is occasionally a lack of clarity in the minds of our project teams and partners about the exact outputs we require. In Adaptation projects we have set a goal of project implementation, but what exactly constitutes the boundary of a project, and what exactly constitutes implementation in this field remains unresolved and in some cases the raising of project finance may be considered an appropriate adaptation project. We bring a climate change element into the work which our partners are doing, but the project ideas are still determined by our partners. In SSN 1 we developed a hands-on approach. This element is still being pursued, but with project partners implementing the project with the local community, there is now a grey area of uncertainty as the roles and responsibilities which will constitute our full engagement in the projects. As MOUs are all debated and signed with our project partners, it is anticipated that this uncertainty will resolve itself. One thing seems clear, the very different personalities of the different partners with whom we work affects the nature of the partnership which we enter into with them. | ||
| Kuyasa project Registered! First Gold Standard Project in the World. First African Project. | ||
| 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.
In South Africa we have two other SSN projects in the pipeline, one has been conditionally validated (and already implemented coal to biomass in the paper industry) and the other is pending tendering for a landfill gas extraction and use utility. These last two are highly profitable. The Kuyasa project, incidentally, is the first CDM project for Africa, the first Gold Standard project and the first to employ 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. "I would like to congratulate my team in this endeavour. I am very proud." says Steve Thorne, South African Region Country Lead and former Technical Co-ordinator of SSN CDM Projects, now SSN Technology Receptivity and Transfer Programme Director |