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Projects
Our clear purpose is to fund projects which not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also provide sustainable environmental and social benefits to the communities where they are located.
Centre for Rural Technology in Nepal
The Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRTN) is a professional NGO engaged in developing and promoting appropriate technologies effective in meeting the basic needs of the rural communities in Nepal and improving their sustainability. CRTN promotes renewable energy technologies such as improved water mills, biomass stoves, solar dryers and solar cookers, along with training the communities to use these new technologies.
The Offset Carbon Company supports one of CRTN’s major projects, the promotion of improved cooking stoves for rural households in Nepal.
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| Traditional cooking is on an open fire. Energy is wasted and the smoke is inhaled by everyone in the hut. |
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New stove installed because of your money. The heat and energy is used much more efficiently which means less carbon emissions are put into the environment. The stove’s chimney draws the smoke out of the hut, this means everyone can breathe smoke-free air. |
The majority of these rural households rely on traditional biomass fuels as a result of the lack of development of other energy alternatives and the overall poor economic condition of the nation.
Wood is the main source of biomass fuel used in these households and is likely to continue to remain so for a long time.
Forest resources are being rapidly exhausted to satisfy the high volumes of wood that these inefficient stoves demand, as a consequence the climate suffers a ‘double-blow’ of high CO2 emissions caused by inefficient combustion of wood fuel, coupled with rapid reduction of living trees to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.
The traditional stoves also expose these households to excessive indoor pollution with damaging effects on respiratory health.
In Nepal there are still more than 2 million households who still use these traditional stoves. The improved stoves that we are helping to promote are significantly more efficient than the traditional type and require far less wood to provide the same output as the stoves they replace. Positively addressing not only the health and wellbeing of rural communities, but also reducing the level of Co2 emissions released into the atmosphere.
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