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Community Based Technology Solutions for Adapting to Climate Change, a Manual for community based development in the context of climate change. Written by Steve Thorne, Barry Kantor and Ijaz Hossain. Published by SouthSouthNorth, Cape Town, November, 2007
"CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD."
ORDER FORM for this publication published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK, entitled
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World
by
Margie Orford
with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Most of this book can be downloaded under the Heading "CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD", below.
This book gives a moving, non-technical account of what inspires people in the SouthSouthNorth network to transform the dry language of an international climate change treaty into measurable improvements in people’s lives in the South that simultaneously offer the global gift of reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. This work shows how the elegant creativity of science can be stitched with the delightful unpredictability of politics and human behaviour. These stories come to life through the artwork done by children who are, or will be, beneficiaries of these projects. These pictures, with the many photographs are a wonderful kaleidoscope of the South now, with an inspiring vision for the future.
The SouthSouthNorth Capacity Building Module on Poverty Reduction:
Approaches for achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction
While sustainable development in climate change was the core approach in SSN 1, SSN 2 takes a further and direct focus on poverty reduction, as a core theme. Presented by the SSN Capacity Building Team, this Module on Poverty Reduction reflects our currect approach to dealing with poverty reduction.
Each SSN 2 programme is discussed separately. The SSN Matrix Tool of Indicators for Appraising the Sustainable Development of Projects, from SSN 1, is applied in SSN 2 for assessing poverty reduction by placing special emphasis on a couple of social sustainability indicators. This approach of the Mitigation Programme is followed in the Adaptation Programme. The Adaptation Programme also applies the SSN Adaptation Projects Protocol for Community Based Adaptation. This SSNAPP for CBA is a way to find the hotspots where high levels of poverty and predicted increases in climate impacts coincide. The Technology Receptivity Programme examines approaches for receiving technology in poor communities, examining not only technology hardware but also the software (processes) and orgware (institutions) required. The Capacity Building Programme uses a SWOT tool for analysing a project's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats as a way to determine and ensure the sustainability of projects in terms of technology, finances and social factors.
The Module gives the various tools applied by the programmes, with examples from SSN projects. It is presented by the Capacity Building Programme in this format as a movement towards an alignment of approaches within SSN and is shared for use by others who are interested in the pursuit of sustainable projects. As a work in progress this Module will be updated as work goes on.
The SouthSouthNorth Appraisal and Ranking Matrix Tool for Sustainable Development
Used by SouthSouthNorth for all climate change mitigation projects both during project selection and during project design.
This Tool has been adopted by the Gold Standard as their test for sustainable development and has been copied and applied by many.
SSN Primer for Partners in the Developing World: Community Based Action on Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change
This Primer prepared by the SSN Capacity Building team, is used by SSN to create awareness among our partners and potential partners about the impacts of Climate Change, and proposed action that can be taken. Of particular interest, the SSN approach to dealing with Adaptation and Mitigation is explained.
SSN 1 - End of Period - Comprehensive Report: 2003 to 2005. This sets out our goals, learnings and achievements over the SSN 1 phase of our work, being the period 2002 to 2005.
SSN New Methodology for Community Based Adaptation - SSNAPP
See also the new
Financing and Transaction Guide for Gold Standard CDM
under Publications of SSN and Partners;
Também disponível no português na Seção Portuguese:
Energias Renováveis e Eficiência Energética em África Guia de Financiamento de Carbono.
"CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD"
Chapter on Bangladesh from
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Chapter on Brazil from
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Chapter on Indonesia from CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Last chapter from CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Opening chapter of
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Chapter on South Africa from CLIMATE CHANGE: THE KYOTO PROTOCOL’S CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM: SouthSouthNorth Stories from the Developing World by Margie Orford with Stefan Raubenheimer and Barry Kantor.
Published by Double Story in South Africa and ITDG in the UK.
Newsletter volume 17, No 1 dated the 16 December 2006, by the SSN implementing agency Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies. Editorial Board includes Dr. Saleemul Huq, Dr. A Atiq Rahman, Dwijen Mallick, all from SSN, and Golam Jilani.
This issue deals with climate change adaptation and mitigation matters.
An introduction to the financing of renewable energy and energy efficient projects using Gold Standard accredited Carbon Financing. A Portuguese version is also available on this page.
"Giving the Market Some Credit" in Sustainable Business, an article written by Emily Tyler, February 2008, argues that the offset market has a role to play in securing standardised carbon offsets with sustainable development.
This document contains guidance for project developers and organisations in using Gold Standard Carbon Finance for smaller Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient projects in Africa.
"Receiving technology in adaptation projects" is a SouthSouthNorth Working Paper, prepared by Anna Taylor, Steve Thorne and Lwandle Mqadi.
Perceptions of and approaches to technological intervention need to change from those that were developed during the recent era of mitigation-focused climate change projects. While hardware has taken centre stage in activities to reduce the emissions of Greenhouse Gasses (GHGs), processes and institutions are seen as central to building capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The paper draws from case studies of adaptation-related projects undertaken internationally, focusing on the methodologies (process), artifacts (hardware) and institutions (orgware) by which adaptation projects are introduced, designed and executed. The checklist for technology transfer and specifically reception in adaptation projects, developed as the output of the research exercise, provides the key ingredients of a process by which technologies can effectively be received and endogenised when building the capacity of communities to deal with the impacts of climate change and variability.
By
Emilio Lèbre La Rovere (SSN MItigation Director), Claudia do Valle Costa (SSN Mitigation team member) and Carolina Burle Schmidt Dubeux (SSN Mitigation team member), all of CentroClima/COPPE/UFRJ, the Center for Integrated Studies on Climate Change and the Environment of the Institute for Research and Graduate Studies in Engineering of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
This paper presents an estimate of the Brazilian potential for generating carbon credits from landfill biogas recovery projects through the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol within the framework of the Climate Change Convention. It summarizes the main findings in this field of a broader study conducted for the Strategic Issues Group of the Presidency of the Republic (NAE-Secom/PR, 2005).
Carbon Financing For Environmentally Sound Low Cost Housing: Financial Implications Of The Clean Development Mechanism For The Kuyasa Housing Project, By Randall Spalding-Fecher, Lwandle Mqadi and Galonkge Oganne
This paper presented at the Domestic Use of Energy workshop in Cape Town, 2005, describes the SouthSouthNorth Toolkit, which contains tools, advice, tips, examples and references, to help project practitioners develop CDM projects, the Toolkit is based on experience of SSN’s facilitation of hands-on, learning-by-doing public and private sector CDM projects in Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia and Brazil since 2001.
Challenges in determination of suppressed demand; a presentation by Axel Michaelowa and Dang Hong Hanh of the
Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany, which formed part of the SouthSouthNorth side event on suppressed demand held at COP 9 in Milan in 2003
Sustainable Development appraisal of Clean Development Mechanism projects – experiences from the SouthSouthNorth (SSN) project by Steve Thorne and Stefan Raubenheimer
"Towards a Framework of Clean Energy Technology Receptivity" is a discussion paper prepared by Steve Thorne, SSN Technology Receptivity Director.
Technology invention, innovation and transfer have been a constant of human evolution. Technologies have been transferred through a variety of means including from trade to theft, leaving history littered with successful and unsuccessful examples of technology transfer through a variety of means.
Facing humanity is an unprecedented threat of anthropogenic climate change, the solution to which, is to reduce the rate at which greenhouse gasses are building up in our atmosphere and deal with the impacts of climate variability and change. Such an intervention requires a change of both technology and behaviour that reduces the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of energy services. Meanwhile, the development agenda shaped by the Millennium development Goals to reduce poverty, is gaining buy-in. So the question is how will the accelerated receipt of cleaner energy technologies be successfully achieved in marginalised communities in developing countries?
The paper considers a range of drivers, case studies and projects, that are being undertaken as an early Clean Development Mechanism experiments under the banner of the international SouthSouthNorth Group. It discusses the drivers of technology transfer and starts to unpack the elements of successful ownership of the technologies.
The paper considers ownership of hardware, software (process) and orgware (institutions) required to advance the diffusion and use of Environmentally Safe Technologies (ESTs) for the provision of energy services. It presents an approach to project selection and development under SouthSouthNorth which attempts to secure successful ownership and receipt of classes of technology that provide services essential for development.
Methods to generate and negotiate Certified Emissions Reductions under the Clean Development Mechanism - Case study of using the CDM
Steve Thorne - SouthSouthNorth
2nd June 2005 - Maputo, Mozambique
Suppressed Demand Presentation at COP 9, Milan, 2003
Challenges in determination of suppressed demand; a presentation by Axel Michaelowa and Dang Hong Hanh of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany, which formed part of the SouthSouthNorth side event on suppressed demand held at COP 9 in Milan in 2003
Sustainable Development Criteria and Indicators and the approval process, presented to the proposed Designated National Authority by Steve Thorne on 10th and 11th July 2002
Doing GHG reduction in the South: co-benefits from hands-on learning-by-doing experiences
Steve Thorne SouthSouthNorth
Panel: Socio-economic aspects of mitigation
SBSTA Plenary 23rd May 2005 Bonn
"Renewable Energy Services in South Africa" presentation at CAMBRIDGE - ESKOM LEADERSHIP for SUSTAINABILITY SEMINAR by
Steve Thorne Southern African coordinator of SouthSouthNorth. Given at Mid Rand on 8th March 2007
“A case study of the Kuyasa low income housing energy upgrade project in SA” presented by Steve Thorne (Director SouthSouthNorth) in Johannesburg on 18th Feb 2008
Suppressed Demand Presentation at COP 9, Milan, 2003
Implications of suppressed demand approach for Africa by Njeri Wamukonya; a presentation that formed part of the SouthSouthNorth side event at COP 9 in Milan, 2003
LOCAL OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES TO ADAPT AND TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE CAPACITY (LOCATE) to design and implement Community Based Adaptation (CBA) ProjectS to Climate Change.
A presentation delivered at COP 13.
Crediting Suppressed Demand for Thermal Energy Services in determining baselines under the Clean Development Mechanism in Kuyasa, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
This presentation which was given by Lwandle Mqadi at the Comestic Use of Energy (DUE) conference in Cape Town in 2004, scooped best presentation of the Conference Award.
Securing financing for RE/EE in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM, presented at
COP 12 REEEP side-event Nairobi on
16th November 2006
by
Steve Thorne, Regional Co-ordinator SouthSouthNorth.
“The role of CDM and other non-carbon attributes and processes in leveraging sustainable development” using examples from SSN South Africa projects, presented by
Steve Thorne (Director of SouthSouthNorth ) at MidRand on 29th Jan 2008
Suppressed Demand Presentation at COP 9, Milan, 2003
Suppressed demand baseline scenarios: what are they and how are they constructed; a presentation by Steve Thorne and Lwandle Mquadi given as part of the SouthSouthNorth side event at COP 9 in Milan, 2003
Technological Intervention in Urban Transport in Dhaka City: Global and Local Environmental Benefit. A presentation by BCAS to South Asian Regional Conference on Transition towards Sustainable Development organized by Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), India.
EXPANDING ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY IN BRAZIL presentation at GNESD (Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development) Latin American Workshop (Rio de Janeiro, 2005) by Suani Coelho of
CENBIO - Brazilian Reference Centre on Biomass,
University of São Paulo
and
Emilio La Rovère of
CentroClima - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - SSN Mitigation Programme Director
THE ROLE OF RENEWABLES IN ENHANCING ELECTRICITY ACCESS FOR THE POOR IN BRAZIL Presented at GNESD (Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development,) Latin American Workshop (Rio de Janeiro, 2005). Leading authors: Emilio Lèbre La Rovere, José Goldemberg and Suani Teixeira Coelho. Contributors: Patricia Guardabassi, André Felipe Simões, Oswaldo Lucon, Felipe Miranda
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
COMMUNITY BASED ADAPTATION
TO CLIMATE CHANGE will be held during February 2007 (please check revised dates with conference organisers) in
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop will be hosted by IIED and BCAS (members of the SSN Group) and RING.
CDM Development in Indonesia -Enabling Policies, Institutions and Programmes, Issues and Challenges, 2006 (Second Edition) - by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development (NEDO). Report compiled by “CDM development in Indonesia” Editorial Team in Cooperation with Yayasan Pelangi Indonesia, under the Supervision of NEDO Representative Office in Jakarta
“Framework for Adaptation to Climate Change in the City of Cape Town
(FAC4T)” DRAFT dated June 2006, submitted to City of Cape Town: Environment Resource Management. This document was prepared by Pierre Mukheibir, SSN Monitor, and Gina Ziervogel
Suitability Assessment of Funders for Adaptation Projects
Prepared for SouthSouthNorth on November 29, 2004
by Sheri Lim.
This document is a preliminary suitability assessment of various funding avenues for climate change adaptation. Suitability is based on current availability of funds, priorities and strategies for South Africa identified by the funders (including geographical areas) and priority of climate change adaptation initiatives. The most suitable multilateral funding agencies, research institutes, environmental agencies and bilateral donors are included in this list.
Article by Mozaharul Alam of BCAS and Lwandle Mqadi of SSN Africa on page 21 of this publication of Tiempo. This article sets out the methodology which is being followed by the SSN Adaptation team to identify, design and implement community based adaptation to climate change project activities. This methodology has been called SSNAPP for CBA. It is a generic tool that is for use by project developers wanting to undertake adaptation activities.
Open Letter to the Editor of
Centre for Science and Environment’s
Fortnightly News Bulletin dated
10 December 2006, entitled "
The Rich Must Face Their Personal Carbon Responsibility"
by Benito Muller and Saleemul Hug (SSN Adaptation Programme Director).
Building blocks by Binu Parthan is an article describing SSN Africa REEEP project for Securing Financing for RE/EE projects in Southern Africa through Gold Standard CDM
DO FUNDO AO MECANISMO: GÊNESE, CARACTERÍSTICAS E PERSPECTIVAS PARA O MECANISMO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO LIMPO; AO ENCONTRO OU DE ENCONTRO Á EQUIDADE?
Tese de André Pereira, previamente com SouthSouthNorth
Os biocombustíveis como estratégia de promoção do desenvolvimento
nacional: os casos do etanol e do biodiesel
(Palestra em 19/05/2006).
This presentation by André Felipe Simões, Member of the Brazilian SSN 2 Adaptation Team and Centro Clima Researcher, D.S. Energy and Environmental Planning (COPPE/UFRJ/2003), Brazil, was presented to 26 Brazilian ambassadors active in several countries (of Europe, North America and Asia). The presentation consumed 4 hours and many intersting/relevant questions were posed. The theme was:
"Biofuels as a strategy of promotion of the national (and sustainable development):
the cases of ethanol and biodiesel."
Energias Renováveis e Eficiência Energética em África
Guia de Financiamento de Carbono. Uma introdução ao financiamento da energia renewable e de projetos eficientes da energia. Usa o financiamento acreditado "Gold Standard" do carbono.
Posicionamento do Brasil frente a seus principais concorrentes regionais e globais no Mercado Internacional de Créditos de Carbono,
by
André Felipe Simões (afsimoes@fem.unicamp.br).
Pós-doutorando na área de Planejamento de Sistemas Energéticos
(PSE/FEM/UNICAMP).
and
Arnaldo César da Silva Walter (awalter@fem.unicamp.br)
Professor do curso de pós-graduação em
Planejamento de Sistemas Energéticos
da Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica da UNICAMP
(PSE/FEM/UNICAMP).
Presented at regional conference in São Paulo PROGRAM OF THE II REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE: SOUTH AMERICA/Programação da II Conferência Regional sobre Mudanças Climáticas: América do Sul
El MDL establecido por el Protocolo de Kyoto contempla la obtención de títulos de emisiones por parte de los países industrializados a través de proyectos de energías renovables en países del Sur. Ello supone oportunidades para estos últimos países, pero también amenazas. El artículo, a través de algunos casos concretos, analiza unas y otras, y se pregunta si los MDL favorecerán a los estratos más pobres de la población.
Publicado en
Cuadernos Internacionales de Tecnología para el Desarrollo Humano_Energía_05
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