April 27th: RISE China launch party
Aliona
Good day to everybody!!!
Please let me draw your attention to - RISE China - Tsinghua University student based organization, driven to create sustainable technology transfer and education in rural China. We are seeking the aid of positive and enterprising businesses and organizations to help us get this amazing and innovative project underway! We would like to welcome YOU and your not indifferent to the environment and people’s health friends to attend our Official Launch Party on April 27th and enjoy the great atmosphere on the night!
RISE China draws on the combined efforts of international and Chinese students in order to develop programs for technology transfer and education in rural areas of China.
Last month, we had the opportunity to present our first project (a Biosand Filter Training-the-Trainer Program) on to the 6th World Water Forum in Marseilles. Our goal is to empower students as the trainers to train local rural entrepreneurs on how to build these low-cost, low-maintenance filters. We believe that students are a great driving force for technology transfer and we also strongly emphasize the fact that it is more sustainable to take the time to educate a local entrepreneur on how to build a biosand filter instead of just providing him/her with one.
Currently, we have projects lined up in a few communities; money is coming from the benevolence of our student members, but as students, we don't have much! Therefore, we are planning an official launch night at CangKu Bar, in order to create a networking atmosphere, generate awareness and hopefully raise some small funding to complete our projects this summer.
We are seeking forward-thinking businesses and organizations in China to help get this project off the ground in anyway they can. Anything from donation of catering at the launch night, a small token we may be able to raffle or even advertisement and awareness is greatly appreciated, no mater how big or small.
As an appreciation of your help, we can offer you a range of great opportunities to advertise and promote your business. As we are a student based organization, we have an excellent reach to the student community here in Beijing, both local and international. Our organization has a great online presence, and has the potential to hundreds of views a week. Further details can be discussed.
I have attached a flyer for the launch event and further details of our project. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions.
Warm Regards,
Aliona
Liangliang Wang
WORLDS FIRST CARBON-FINANCED SUSTAINABLE WATER PROGRAMME HELPS MILLIONS IN AFRICA
London — 11 AM GMT, 9th March 2012
Swiss disease control technology company Vestergaard Frandsen earns Gold Standard carbon credits with innovative business model that tackles global health, water and climate challenges.
Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has become the world’s first safe water project to generate Gold Standard Voluntary Emissions Reduction (VER) credits, and has earned 1.4 million carbon credits.
LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is a cutting-edge demonstration of how carbon finance can enable, at scale, some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities to treat their water through the provision of zero-carbon purification technology. Proceeds from the sale of the credits, which Vestergaard Frandsen expects will be issued on a semi-annual basis, will help to sustain the programme over the course of a decade.
LifeStraw® Carbon For Water, launched last year in western Kenya, is the largest water treatment project ever undertaken in a developing country without government or public sector funding, and Vestergaard Frandsen plans to replicate the model elsewhere in the world. In doing so, it will help millions more people in developing countries to improve their health and reduce carbon emissions.
The LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has distributed 877,505 LifeStraw® Family water filters in Kenya’s Western Province. As a result, more than 90 percent of the province’s population now enjoys the ability to consume safe drinking water at no cost to themselves or their government.
One of the ways to treat potentially contaminated water in Kenya is by boiling over an open fire that produces carbon emissions through burning mostly non-renewable wood, which also contributes to a serious deforestation problem in the region. LifeStraw® Family meets World Health Organization standards for “highly protective” means of household removal from water of the bacteria, viruses, and parasites responsible for common diarrheal diseases—without the need to burn and boil. This produces significant carbon savings, and each filter will purify at least 18,000 litres of water—enough to supply a family of five for three years. Safe drinking water is of critical importance to development in places where waterborne illness is the cause of many missed educational and economic opportunities, and, in too many cases, death.
The sustainable programme will repair and replace the water filters as needed, at no cost to users, at service centers throughout the province. Vestergaard Frandsen has employed thousands of local residents to assist with the ten-year programme.
“With millions of people in developing countries still lacking safe drinking water, and increased pressure on development aid to do more with less, innovating new ways to finance solutions to these problems is absolutely critical,” said Vestergaard Frandsen CEO and owner Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen. “I believe that our LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme blazes a trail for a wide range of projects that bring the public and private sectors together using carbon financing to address multiple public health and environmental issues.”
The innovative financing mechanism behind the LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme holds public and private sector organizations to greater accountability and ensures that maximum impact is delivered on the ground. Funding for the project is contingent upon use of the filters by recipients, so Vestergaard Frandsen is incentivized to promote filtering of water and avoidance of burning biomass by educating households on the importance of drinking safe water and training them on the filter itself.
LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is designed around the unique Gold Standard climate finance platform, which has been critical to the programme’s success. The new Gold Standard methodology developed for the project includes a calculation of suppressed demand – an area in which The Gold Standard has led the carbon markets. The Gold Standard is used by the NGO community and many governments as a policy tool for demonstrating best practice in carbon finance, giving further assurance and credibility to such innovative approaches and methodologies. The Gold Standard is working with the German government to explore ways of applying suppressed demand to expand access to carbon finance in Africa and other poor regions that have historically been excluded from its benefits.
The Gold Standard Foundation CEO Adrian Rimmer said, “This is a blueprint for how climate finance projects should look—because it moves beyond a pure focus on carbon. Buyers of Gold Standard credits recognize the need for sustainable development to be delivered alongside emissions reductions, and because The Gold Standard uniquely provides assurances of this, they are prepared to pay a higher price that makes these projects viable.”
ClimateCare, one of the world’s leading climate and development specialists, was lead author of the new Gold Standard methodology and will commercialise the credits. CEO Edward Hanrahan added: “ClimateCare are delighted to have been able to support this truly groundbreaking project. Traditionally carbon finance has been used to reduce emissions from large single point sources, the difference here is that you have hundreds of thousands of small interventions, working together to achieve a highly significant reduction, all adding up to what is one of the largest carbon reduction projects in the world. This project is achieving what ClimateCare believes that climate and development finance is all about – and provides a fantastic model for developing dual and triple impact projects in the future.”
Accredited London-based firm ERM Certification and Verification Services verified the project’s emission reductions and sustainable development monitoring activities.
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fabien GARDENAT
Thanks for this article.It is extremely interesting. I think this kind
of project is the future of carbon credit. Do you have more
informations about it? The market of this new product is wide enough
to have many seller or buyer? China should be a good site to promote
the technology.
Fabien
On 17 avr, 12:34, Liangliang Wang <liangliang.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aliona,
>
> Great work!
>
> Not sure if RISE China is planning to scale up the project in China, if
> yes, then carbon market could be a potential funding source. There are
> people working to duplicate the 'carbon credit' concept to address water
> issue by introducing 'water credit'. 'LifeStraw' project in Africa is a
> successful story:
>
> If you are interested to know more, I am happy to provide more inputs.
>
> best,
> leon
>
> WORLDS FIRST CARBON-FINANCED SUSTAINABLE WATER PROGRAMME HELPS MILLIONS IN
> AFRICA
>
>
> *<http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Lifestraw-P...>Swiss
> water and climate challenges.*
> Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has become the
> world’s first safe water project to generate Gold Standard Voluntary
> Emissions Reduction (VER) credits, and has earned 1.4 million carbon
> credits.
>
> LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is a cutting-edge demonstration of how carbon
> finance can enable, at scale, some of the world’s most disadvantaged
> communities to treat their water through the provision of zero-carbon
> purification technology. Proceeds from the sale of the credits, which
> Vestergaard Frandsen expects will be issued on a semi-annual basis, will
> help to sustain the programme over the course of a decade.
>
> LifeStraw® Carbon For Water, launched last year in western Kenya, is the
> largest water treatment project ever undertaken in a developing country
> without government or public sector funding, and Vestergaard Frandsen plans
> to replicate the model elsewhere in the world. In doing so, it will help
> millions more people in developing countries to improve their health and
> reduce carbon emissions.
>
> The LifeStraw® Carbon For Water programme has distributed 877,505
> LifeStraw® Family water filters in Kenya’s Western Province. As a result,
> more than 90 percent of the province’s population now enjoys the ability to
> consume safe drinking water at no cost to themselves or their government.
>
> over an open fire that produces carbon emissions through burning mostly
> non-renewable wood, which also contributes to a serious deforestation
> problem in the region. LifeStraw® Family meets World Health Organization
> standards for “highly protective” means of household removal from water of
> the bacteria, viruses, and parasites responsible for common diarrheal
> diseases—without the need to burn and boil. This produces significant
> carbon savings, and each filter will purify at least 18,000 litres of
> water—enough to supply a family of five for three years. Safe drinking
> water is of critical importance to development in places where waterborne
> illness is the cause of many missed educational and economic opportunities,
> and, in too many cases, death.
>
> The sustainable programme will repair and replace the water filters as
> needed, at no cost to users, at service centers throughout the province.
> Vestergaard Frandsen has employed thousands of local residents to assist
> with the ten-year programme.
>
> “With millions of people in developing countries still lacking safe
> drinking water, and increased pressure on development aid to do more with
> less, innovating new ways to finance solutions to these problems is
> absolutely critical,” said Vestergaard Frandsen CEO and owner Mikkel
> Vestergaard Frandsen. “I believe that our LifeStraw® Carbon For Water
> programme blazes a trail for a wide range of projects that bring the public
> and private sectors together using carbon financing to address multiple
> public health and environmental issues.”
>
> programme holds public and private sector organizations to greater
> accountability and ensures that maximum impact is delivered on the ground.
> Funding for the project is contingent upon use of the filters by
> recipients, so Vestergaard Frandsen is incentivized to promote filtering of
> water and avoidance of burning biomass by educating households on the
> importance of drinking safe water and training them on the filter itself.
>
> LifeStraw® Carbon For Water is designed around the unique Gold Standard
> climate finance platform, which has been critical to the programme’s
> success. The new Gold Standard methodology developed for the project
> includes a calculation of suppressed demand – an area in which The Gold
> Standard has led the carbon markets. The Gold Standard is used by the NGO
> community and many governments as a policy tool for demonstrating best
> practice in carbon finance, giving further assurance and credibility to
> such innovative approaches and methodologies. The Gold Standard is working
> with the German government to explore ways of applying suppressed demand to
> expand access to carbon finance in Africa and other poor regions that have
> historically been excluded from its benefits.
>
> The Gold Standard Foundation CEO Adrian Rimmer said, “This is a blueprint
> for how climate finance projects should look—because it moves beyond a pure
> focus on carbon. Buyers of Gold Standard credits recognize the need for
> sustainable development to be delivered alongside emissions reductions, and
> because The Gold Standard uniquely provides assurances of this, they are
> prepared to pay a higher price that makes these projects viable.”
>
> author of the new Gold Standard methodology and will commercialise the
> credits. CEO Edward Hanrahan added: “ClimateCare are delighted to have been
> able to support this truly groundbreaking project. Traditionally carbon
> finance has been used to reduce emissions from large single point sources,
> the difference here is that you have hundreds of thousands of small
> interventions, working together to achieve a highly significant reduction,
> all adding up to what is one of the largest carbon reduction projects in
> the world. This project is achieving what ClimateCare believes that climate
> and development finance is all about – and provides a fantastic model for
> developing dual and triple impact projects in the future.”
>
> Accredited London-based firm ERM Certification and Verification Services
> verified the project’s emission reductions and sustainable development
> monitoring activities.
>
>
> *Contacts:*
> *Jim Peacock*Associate DirectorHill + Knowlton StrategiesEmail:
> jim.peac...@hkstrategies.comTel: +44 (0) 207 413 3771Mob: +44 (0) 7990
> 565227 *Peter Cleary*Communications and Public Relations DirectorVestergaard
> FrandsenEmail: p...@vestergaard-frandsen.comTel: +1 347 653 5857 *Tanya
> Petersen*Director, Marketing and CommunicationsThe Gold Standard
> FoundationEmail:
> > Good day to everybody!!!
>
> > sustainable technology transfer and education in rural China. We are
> > seeking the aid of positive and enterprising businesses and organizations
> > to help us get this amazing and innovative project underway! We would like
> > health friends to attend our *Official Launch Party on April 27th* and *enjoy
> > the great atmosphere on the night*!
> > RISE China draws on the combined efforts of international and Chinese
> > students in order to develop programs for technology transfer and education
> > in rural areas of China.
>
> > the trainers to train local rural entrepreneurs on how to build these
> > low-cost, low-maintenance filters. We believe that students are a great
> > driving force for technology transfer and we also strongly emphasize the
> > fact that it is more sustainable to take the time to educate a local
> > entrepreneur on how to build a biosand filter instead of just providing
> > him/her with one.
>
> > don't have much! Therefore, we are planning an official launch night at
> > CangKu Bar, in order to create a networking atmosphere, generate awareness
> > and hopefully raise some small funding to complete our projects this summer.
> > We are seeking forward-thinking businesses and organizations in China
> > to help get this project off the ground in anyway they can. Anything from
> > donation of catering at the launch night, a small token we may be able to
> > raffle or even advertisement and awareness is greatly appreciated, no mater
> > how big or small.
>
> > As an appreciation of your help, we can offer you a range of great
> > opportunities to advertise and promote your business. As we are a student
> > based organization, we have an excellent reach to the student community
> > here in Beijing, both local and international. Our organization has a great
> > online presence, and has the potential to hundreds of views a week. Further
> > details can be discussed.
>
> > our project*. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions.
>
> > Warm Regards,
>
> > Aliona
> > ------------------------------