Compensation Projects
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Ethiopia: Solar Collectors for private households (WEF Davos 2012)
This project plans to install photovoltaic cells on the roofs of Ethiopian houses. The electricity production gives families access to lighting and improves the livelihoods of people living in the rural regions of Ethiopia. The use of solar lighting instead of kerosene lamps has positive effects on people’s health and leads to reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Kenia: Energy efficient cook stoves (WEF Davos 2011)
This project plans to distribute 62,000 locally produced efficient cook stoves to rural households in communities adjacent to Kakamega Forest in Western Kenya. The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and children. Moreover, savings in burning unsustainably harvested fuel wood cut down CO2 emissions.
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India: Sustainable Energy for rural progress (WEF Davos 2005)
To compensate the approximative 6’300 tons CO2-equivalents which will be generated by the WEF Annual Meeting 2005 the DCA supports the EmPP Partnership programme by DESI Power Ltd in India.
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Nepal: Small biogas plants in rural Nepal (WEF Davos 2010)
The WWF Nepal is constructing 7,500 biogas plants in rural Nepal. The non-sustainable consumption of firewood for cooking is minimized. This makes the reduction of the deforestation and also CO2 emissions possible.
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China: Small hydropower stations in Hunan Province ('Summer Davos' 2009 & 2010)
Your voluntary contribution will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing current fossile fuel-fired plants in Hunan Province, China.
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Brazil: Sustainable energy production in the Amazon (WEF Davos 2009)
This project, located in a remote town in the Brazilian Amazon, is the first ever that produces greenhouse gas emission reductions based on sustainably harvested biomass from an FSC-certified forest operation. With a 9 MW wood-fired power plant, the Swiss based forestry company Precious Woods (www.preciouswoods.com) converts the wood residuals from its sawmill to electricity and thereby covers 80% of the demand of the 70’000 inhabitants of Itacoatiara. The project replaces the former diesel based electricity system with a renewable and local energy source.
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China: Solar Cookers in Rural Northwestern China ('Summer Davos' 2007 & 2008 / WEF Davos 2008)
Your voluntary contribution will help to provide approximately 20,000 units of solar cookers to rural residents living in the dry and barren land of Ningxia province of northwestern China.
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Indonesia: Salido Kecil mini hydro power plant (WEF Davos 2006 & 2007)
The project’s objective is the rehabilitation and upgrade of a historic mini hydro power plant in West Sumatra, Indonesia, in order to obtain the maximum available power-output by utilizing as much of the existing infrastructure as possible. While the plant’s current output does not exceed 85 kW, the plant is expected to deliver 1.15 MW to the grid after rehabilitation. The plant is a showcase for similar projects to be implemented in Indonesia in the future.
