<div dir="ltr">Teddy:<br><br>I posted on Inyenyeri on 12th September under the subject line Carbon offsets and charcoal (Re: Crispin on Rwanda). An extract below, quoting myself (!):<br><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br><a href="https://www.inyenyeri.org/" target="_blank">Inyenyeri</a> in Rwanda is another example. They combine pellet-making in return for their stoves, and the feedstock suppliers can sell these to urban and peri-urban customers. They won one of the two advanced ERPA (Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement) under World Bank-administered Ci-Dev. (</span><a href="http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/214095/" target="_blank">Inyenyeri Signs Landmark Deal with World Bank to Scale Renewable Energy Company in Rwanda</a> The New Times, Kigali 12 June 2017) Another Rwanda company, <a href="http://www.delagua.org/" target="_blank">Del Aqua</a>, is getting a similar advance for "gasifying" stoves (along with advanced water filters). With other projects using biodigesters, it seems that pro-poor energy technology finance is now available for innovative businesses. <br><br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://carbon-pulse.com/14911/" target="_blank">Some of these Ci-Dev projects</a> is done under a CDM POA (Program of Activities), which is a promising route.  It is also encouraging to read that among the donors to Ci-Dev, </span>"The UK is going to retire any CERs received, while the others use them to meet national emissions targets." (What a shame, Sweden and Switzerland.) <br><br></blockquote><span style="font-size:12.8px">I can send you that whole post separately; some other impressions of mine on Rwanda tree resource were corrected by a friend. <br><br>Back over a decade ago, I was the first to request GEF funds for "improved biomass stoves" in on a combined "renewable energy" and "energy efficiency" themes anywhere. I think the request was approved, but I didn't continue to work there.<br><br>Nikhil<br></span><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Cookswell Jikos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cookswelljikos@gmail.com" target="_blank">cookswelljikos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. This bit below especially caught my interest. Can you elaborate more on how this system works? Any type of wood? wet/dry etc? Do they have some type of long term forestry component in the project as well do you know? <div><br></div><div>''<span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Remarkably, Inyenyeri has come up with the way to serve even the poorest of the rural poor, who have no money and gather their own wood. “We’ve all seen the pictures of kids and women carrying bundles of sticks and branches, wasting too many hours each week gathering cooking fuel for a three-stone fire,” he says.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Not wanting to leave them out, Inyenyeri came up with a barter system under which rural household provide the company with wood, the raw material for its pellets. In return, they get stoves and pellets. These cashless customers only have to collect about half as much wood as they used to because the stove-pellet combination is so much more efficient than open fires, according to Reynolds.;; </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(79,75,76);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_2582568877766360972gmail-m_-3161340971844603911gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Cookswell Jikos</b><br><a href="http://www.cookswell.co.ke" target="_blank">www.cookswell.co.ke</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/CookswellJiko<wbr>s</a></div><div><a href="http://www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 380 009 <br></div><div>Mobile: +254 700 905 913</div><div>P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya</div><div><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mFnK50B4oS8/UUrgJle8z9I/AAAAAAAAB_o/OUjLd7wrKPg/s133/Cookswell+Logo.PNG" width="71" height="96"><br></div><div><font color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">Save trees - think twice before printing</font><font size="1" color="#008000" face="Tms Rmn">.</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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