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ENERGY SELF-SUFFCIENCY PROJECT- MAPIRIPAN - COLOMBIA
CleanPlanet-CO2 allocates 90% of profits from selling CleanPlanet-CO2 VERs to the “Mapiripán Energy Self Sufficiency”project , targeting a small town in Colombia.
The project is promoted by the Poligrow Foundation, a nonprofit organization aiming at fostering the economic and social development of marginalized communities.
Thus confirming its serious approach and validity, the BID (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo), GVEP International – an ONG-, the GTZ (the German Interministerial Agency for Cooperation ), and the Korean government have all selected the Mapiripan energy self sufficiency project from more than 1000 applicant projects, judging it worth an outright grant under the IDEAS Contest for Energy Innovation.
Mapiripán is located in an isolated, hardly accessibile area of Colombia and its territory is not included in the National Energy Interconnection System. Electrical power is available to the village inhabitants only for 8 hours a day, plus it is very expensive. The CleanPlanet-CO2 project will support the replacement of outdated diesel generators with vegetable oil fuelled motors that will provide energy to the local population 24 hours a day. Hence, the local oil production will bring about a dual benefit, not only by fostering the establishment of small enterprises linked to an energy crops supply chain managed by local farmers, but also by producing a “zero miles” product generating no further CO2 emissions since it requires no transportation.
DEVELOPMENT OF A CASTOR OIL SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE SEMI ARID AREA OF NORDESTE -BRAZIL.
The first project supported by CleanPlanet-CO2 in 2007 targeted sustainable development in Brazil; it was implemented with the help of the LaGuardia Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit organization targeting sustainable development projects to be implemented in China, Brazil and India. CleanPlanet-CO2 has allocated to this projects, that has currently reached completion, 10 times more funds than it has gathered from selling avoided emissions certificates (CleanPlanet-CO2 VERs). The contribution of CleanPlanet-CO2 was used to strengthen a model of agro-energy supply chain centered around local small growers of Nordeste, a semi-arid, extremely poor region of Brazil.