Has Been Done Before...
“Earn while you cook” Program has been
done before. The development impact and learnings from a program such as this
has been measured and presented at corporate, national and international
forums.
So it’s a road that has been travelled
before. Not as much as it could have been. But sufficiently enough to glean the
best practices and worst pitfalls.
Developmental Impact Balance Sheet
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- The Stove is eligible for 2
carbon credits per annum
- The program (stove plus charcoal
buy-back and redeployed towards energy) is eligible for 4 carbon credits
per annum
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Conventional charcoal requires in average 6 kg of wood to produce 1 kg of
charcoal. In the TLUD, it is produced as a by-product when cooking, so no
additional wood is needed.
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Thus 1kg of TLUD charcoal saves 6 kg of wood - corresponding to approx. 7 kg
of CO2
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Innovative Business
Model
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- Unique economic model
- Capable of supporting a
large scale cookstove buyback program
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Proven Economic
Model
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- The project has been running
successfully in Sunderbans, WB for the past 5 years
- Has received the Letter of
Approval from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who
states “.. this project contributes to sustainable development in India”
- Has all sustainability metrics
measured and monitored as per the CDM protocol
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Measurable Social
Metrics
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- The program is amenable to
measurements around important sustainability indicators.
- Energy Efficiency, Livelihood,
Deforestation, literacy, economic wealth generated in the community
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Scalable Model
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- The key factor in scaling up is
the “charcoal linkage” when this is established for a community,
scalability is easy
- Scaling up is also desirable –
because a larger stove population will support access to fuel supply by
enabling better logistics economy.
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Replicable Model
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- The key factor in replicating
the model is the customising of the charcoal linkage to leverage the
inherent strengths of the community.
- Replicating the model might
involve a study of the community to identify the downstream charcoal
application and the relevant charcoal linkages for it.
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Possibility for
R&D, encourages micro-enterprises
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- There are 52 known uses of
charcoal
- It is possible to create a
series of micro-enterprises, that use charcoal made by households, as
raw material.
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Possibility for
Soft Skill Interventions
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- Since the economic model is
amenable to catalyse new micro-enterprises at the grassroots, it will
provide possibilies for corporate-community partnership around soft
skills, project development etc.
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Envisaged
Developmental Impact of the Project (based on 5000 TLUD cookstoves)
Based on the
cookstove program of 5000 , the cookstove is expected to deliver the following
Developmental impact.
For the User based
on Previous Study
(Per household)
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- A
saving of 270 Kgs per month per household.
- A saving
of INR 720 –INR 760 per month per household.
- The time taken
to cook reduces by about 50% on an average.
- Frees up 20
hours per month for women/children per household.
- INR150 per
month through charcoal sales
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For the Local
Partner
(Community of 5000
TLUDs)
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- Potential
Income for Local Partner
- Earning
from Field support (warehouse, local transport, venue)
- Warehouse
6 Wh @ 15k per month?
- Local
Transport 5k stoves @INR 50 per stove
- Charcoal
Profit INR3000 per tonne
- Any
carbon revenue sharing if corporate takes it up as a Carbon
Proposal
- Direct
impact on the environmental situation in project area
- Working
together with local community and raising awareness of pressing
environmental problems.
- Better
quality of life to rural and urban poor, especially for women and
children
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Environmental
Impact
(Community of 5000
TLUDs)
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- 87500
tonnes of wood saved in 7 years; equivalent of a 437 ha forest in 7
years
- 25%
of wood is converted to charcoal; 10 tonnes of new energy source
- 4
tonnes of CO2 saved per household per annum
- Frees
up 100000 hours per month of productive woman power
- It
reduces deforestation in the project Area
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Community impacts
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- Skill
development and training of women Village Level Entrepreneurs who will
market and sell these products
- Income
streams generated for these women who are remunerated through
commissions per unit of product sold
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