Sichuan Rural Poor-Household Biogas Development Programme
The Sichuan Household Biogas Programme of Activities by UPM aims to improve living conditions for up to one million low-income rural households in China's Sichuan province. By providing reliable biogas digesters and efficient cook stoves fed with animal manure, the initiative facilitates the conversion of waste into clean biogas. This switch reduces reliance on coal and firewood, promoting sustainability. Each participating household can save approximately 2 tons of CO2 equivalent emissions annually, contributing to significant environmental benefits.
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Clean and Affordable Biogas for Poor Rural Households
To make people's lives better while helping to protect the earth's climate, UPM's Sichuan Household Biogas Programme of Activities (PoA) shall provide up to one million low-income rural households in China’s Sichuan province with proven and reliable biogas digesters and efficient biogas cook stoves.
The digester tanks are fed with animal manure, previously just discharged into open pits, and convert it into clean and affordable biogas to be used conveniently for cooking, heating, or lighting instead of coal and firewood. After switching to biogas, each participating smallholder farmer family saves around 2 tCO2e of methane and carbon dioxide emissions year by year.
Project Details
Project Company
UPM Umwelt-Projekt-Management GmbH
Project URL
Location
Sichuan, China
Project Type
Biogas
Methodology
AMS-III.R.+AMS-I.C.
Mechanism
Avoidance
Start Date
June 2022
Verification
First Verifier: GLC
On-going Validator: TÜV-Nord
Standard: Gold Standard
Project Verification & Standards
This project adheres to recognized carbon standards and undergoes third-party validation and verification. These standards help ensure emissions reductions or removals are real, measurable, and traceable.
Sustainable Development Goals
This project contributes to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Good health and well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Clean water and sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly. This project's contributions to these goals are verified and monitored.
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