South Pole ontwikkelt uitgebreide strategieën waarmee klimaatactie omgezet kan worden in bedrijfsmogelijkheden op de lange termijn voor bedrijven, overheidsinstellingen en organisaties van over de hele wereld, en is al sinds 2006 toonaangevend op het gebied van koolstofvermindering. South Pole is ook een toonaangevende projectontwikkelaar en heeft bijna 1000 projecten mogelijk gemaakt op het gebied van hernieuwbare energie, bosbeheer, agricultuur, industrie, huishoudens en openbare instellingen in meer dan 50 landen. Aan de hand van klimaatfinaniciering heeft South Pole meer dan een gigaton aan CO2-uitstoot voorkomen, sociale voordelen geleverd aan kansarme gemeenschappen die met name kwetsbaar zijn voor klimaatverandering en geholpen om bijna 100.000 banen in ontwikkelingslanden te creëren.
온실가스 감축 전략
Title:지금까지 Swarovski는 이미 2019년 기준치 대비 스코프 1, 2 배출량을 12%, 스코프 3 배출량을 26% 감축했습니다. Swarovski는 온실가스 감축을 가속화하고 2015년 파리 협정에 따라 운영하기 위해 제조와 유통, 프로세스 및 정책에 지속적으로 크게 투자하고 있습니다.
완벽한 기후 전략은 감축, 제거, 상쇄를 포함한 모든 방법론을 제시합니다.
실제로 Swarovski는 야심찬 감축 계획과 South Pole과의 기후 프로젝트 외에도, 최근 Climeworks와 대기에서 직접 이산화탄소를 제거하기 위한 5년간의 계약을 체결했습니다(자세한 내용은 여기에서 확인).
중요한 사실은 인증을 받고 추가되는 모든 기후 솔루션이 유효하다는 것입니다. 하나의 조치만이 아닌, 가능한 모든 조치와 해결책을 강구하는 것이 중요합니다. 이것이 바로 Swarovski가 South Pole과 함께 생물다양성 보호와 바이오가스 포집, 수력발전 분야로 영향을 다각화하기 위해 3가지 핵심 프로젝트를 선정한 이유입니다.
Huóshuĭ Small Hydropower
Title:Une énergie propre pour les communautés reculées des montagnes en Chine.
Subtitle:De la même façon, les rivières des régions montagneuses de la Chine peuvent être exploitées pour la production d’électricité destinée aux habitants de la région et notamment aux communautés les plus retirées ; l’installation de centrales hydroélectriques requiert cependant des investissements importants. Avant la réalisation de ce projet, les communautés locales connaissaient des conditions de vie difficiles. Alors que la Chine répondait à 80 % de sa demande en électricité grâce aux centrales à charbon, l’accès de ces communautés à l'électricité demeurait aléatoire et les investissements régionaux restaient limités.
Huóshuĭ Small Hydropower est répartie en 95 petites centrales hydrauliques. Les centrales de petite taille ont une capacité comprise entre 0,1 et 14 MW. Ensemble, elles fournissent suffisamment d'énergie renouvelable pour alimenter plus d'un demi-million de foyers chinois moyens chaque année. Leur conception « au fil de l'eau » leur permet de réaliser cette opération avec un impact minimal sur l'environnement.
- Normes du projet : SocialCarbon, VCS Norme carbone vérifiée
Impacts :
- 369000 tonnes de CO2e (équivalents dioxyde de carbone) évitées chaque année (SDG13)
- 740000 MWh d’énergie renouvelable générée chaque année (SDG7)
- Contributions aux ODD des Nations Unies 4, 8 et 5.
Réserve de biodiversité Rimba Raya
Title:Préserver les forêts tropicales marécageuses de tourbe de Bornéo et améliorer les conditions de vie locales
Subtitle:Les forêts marécageuses de tourbe de Rimba Raya se situent dans la province du Kalimantan central sur l’île de Bornéo, en Indonésie. Avant la mise en place du projet, ces tourbières, qui jouissent d’une biodiversité immense, étaient destinées à être reconverties en fermes d’huile de palme par les autorités de la province.
La Réserve de biodiversité Rimba Raya protège 91215 hectares de forêts tropicales marécageuses de tourbe, surveillées par des gardes forestiers locaux, par des satellites et par imagerie aérienne. Tout en sauvegardant la diversité de l’écosystème et l’habitat d’espèces menacées comme l'orang-outan de Bornéo, le projet a permis la réduction des émissions en évitant le projet de déforestation alors prévu sur plus de 47000 hectares de forêts pour la production d’huile de palme.
Le projet Rimba Raya, au-delà de limiter le carbone et de protéger l’habitat naturel de la faune locale, encourage un développement local durable, en s’appuyant particulièrement sur l’éducation environnementale et le développement des capacité économiques.
Normes du projet :
- Norme (Verra) pour le climat, la communauté et la biodiversité (CBB)
- Norme VCS pour les crédits carbone
Impacts :
- 2162 filtres à eau distribués
- 47237 hectares protégés
- 3500000 tonnes de CO2e en moins
Lan Dokmai Waste-to-energy
Title:Reducing climate impacts and helping with sustainable biogas
Subtitle:Thailand is one of the largest producers of Tapioca starch, which forms an important part of the economy. Unfortunately, starch production is a carbon-intensive process that not only damages the environment but also produces strong-smelling methane emissions from the wastewater that affect the quality of life in surrounding areas.
Rather than allowing the methane to escape freely into the atmosphere, the project captures the gas in order to produce clean electricity. This electricity powers production at the local starch factory; as a result, the air is cleaner and less fossil fuel needs to be purchased. This means that revenue can be generated to support social and educational activities in the community.
With less methane emissions, the quality of the air surrounding the plant has improved dramatically. In addition to this, new jobs and training opportunities for modern technologies are provided by the project. The treated wastewater is much cleaner and can be used for fish farming and irrigation of nearby fields, even the wastewater sludge is given to farmers and recycled for fertilizer.
Just like the renowned carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) is also a greenhouse gas (GHG), so its presence in the atmosphere affects the earth’s temperature and climate system. Methane is emitted from a variety of anthropogenic (human-influenced) and natural sources. Methane is the second most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide, accounting for about 20% of global emissions, and is also more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Therefore, reducing methane emissions has a significant effect on limiting global warming.
Project standards:
• Gold Standard (WWF)
• CDM Clean Development Mechanism (UN FCCC)
Impacts:
- 20,000 tonnes of CO2e
- 2,100 m2 of cleaned wastewater
- 2,200 litres of fossil fuels saved
Frequently Asked Questions
What are carbon credits and how do they work?
Projects must adhere to a rigorous set of criteria to pass verification by third-party agencies and a review by a panel of experts at a leading carbon offset standard like Verra or Gold Standard. After an organization or an individual buys a carbon credit, the credit is permanently retired so it can't be reused.
What makes a good climate action project?
How do I know that the emission reductions are actually happening? What does additionality mean?
For transparency, carbon credits are assigned serial numbers and are issued, transferred and permanently retired in publicly accessible emission registries.
Additionality means that the reductions in emissions achieved by the project must be “above business as usual". That means they would not have happened unless the project was implemented. By purchasing high-quality and verified carbon credits you are directly funding climate action and sustainable development.
What are the different types of climate action projects?
- The first avoids greenhouse gas emissions, for example replacing fossil fuel-derived energy with energy from renewable sources.
- The second removes emissions from the atmosphere, for example, planting more trees, which sequester - or capture - carbon from the atmosphere and store it in liquid or solid form.
- The third captures and destroys emissions, for example capturing methane–a GHG many times more potent than carbon dioxide–from wastewater.
Our global partner South Pole has hundreds of different climate action projects, which cover the following areas:
- Nature-based-solutions (reforestation, land restoration, forest protection, sustainable land management and agriculture)
- Renewable energy (hydropower projects, wind projects, solar power and geothermal)
- Community projects (improved cookstove technology, access to safe water)
- Waste-to-energy (biogas from landfill or industry, and biomass).
