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BLUENEXT - Voluntary Carbon Programme

BlueNext is committed to ensuring its business activities are carbon neutral and we strive to reduce our carbon footprint each year. The first stage of this ongoing process was to get Ecofys (www.ecofys.com) to benchmark our footprint. Then we had to decide on what voluntary carbon programme we might adopt.
 
We decided upon the New Lao Stove VCS project from Geres Cambodia (Voluntary Carbon Standard). The short film below gives a great introduction to the project.

NEW LAO STOVE Geres Cambodia

Goal: Reduce household fuel consumption, improve living conditions

Goal: Control / reduce the pressures placed on the forests of Cambodia

2003-2007 Result: 308,424 tons of CO2 were saved

Like most Asian nations, Cambodia relies upon its forests for energy, with wood and charcoal resources being used in households across the country for heating water and cooking. The rapid destruction of Cambodia’s once vast natural forests and the subsequent issues related to forest access and increases in fuel prices directly affect economically disadvantaged communities throughout the region.

In Phnom Penh, 40% of households still use charcoal as their main source of energy for cooking and annual demand is estimated to be approximately 90,000 tons (Charcoal Flow Study, GERES for IGES CCCO, 2006) while the traditional household cook stoves have only 11-15% of thermal efficiency and usually last less than a year.

At the end of 1997 GERES initiated a program that resulted in the production of New Lao Stoves (NLS). Compared to traditional cook stoves commonly used in urban areas, the NLS consumes 22% less charcoal and can be used up to three years (three times!) as long as traditional stoves.

GERES Cambodia has trained 39 production centers in 10 provinces on cook stove production and marketing. 20,000 improved stoves are provided to local markets per month.