Climate change Countermeasures through Carbon Offsetting in the Cosmetics Sector

In households located in mountainous and poor areas of China Hubei province, now use animal manure to produce biogas for cooking and heating water, instead of coal and wood.
The project, located in Enshi Prefecture, bundles 33,000 household-level activities which recover methane from biogas digesters with pig manure as fermentation material and utilize the generated biogas to displace fossil fuel for cooking and heating.

This is expected to reduce the methane emissions overall. The project thus reduces emissions of fly ash from burning coal and fuelwood, households have increased health due to the significant reduction in indoor smoke and heat from customary cooking methods. In particular the project reduces respiratory problems such as occasional cough, phlegm, asthma and children with occasional cough, phlegm or breathing difficulties. Also, diarrhea all decreased, without exception, ranging from 1.6 to 6.5 percent for households among participating provinces, and more than 88% of the households reported improvements in household sanitation status, reduces odours from biomass decomposition.

Furthermore, the project has created new jobs in the construction, maintenance, marketing, and financing of biogas units. Income of women was increased through project supported agricultural production and living cost was reduced by using biogas in terms of saved fuel and health costs as well as saved labour in cooking,  firewood collection and other related heavy housework.

The project offsets power and GHG emissions generated by regional coal power plants through water resources for electricity generation by installing and operating hydro power stations using water from the Majia River. 

This project builded facilities to improve access to drinking water and Irrigation for local communities which are affected.

These schemes include 6 road construction schemes, 5 drinking water and irrigation schemes, 3 education and hygiene schemes, 2 scientific and technical schemes, and industrial development scheme. Due to the construction of water diversion and storage schemes, the access to water for both human and live stocks are largely improved in Dangyangba, Qishuya, Longmenzi, Qiliping and Tianjiaping villages. 4,400 people in total have been benefited due to the intervention.

・Water pipelines ：Dangyangba village (24,626m), Longmengzi village (7,600m), Qiliping  Village(1,386m), Tianjiaping village (5,450m), Qiliping village built (1,386 m)

・The improved area：Dangyangba village (500 Mu), Longmengzi village (380 Mu) and Qiliping  Village(400 Mu)

・Water conservation facilities ：DangyangbaVillage(5 water storage tanks), Longmenzi village (built water diversion tunnel of 240m and water tank of 72 m3), Tianjiaping village (built 3 water tanks of 41.3 m3)

In Rwanda, Around 2002, Only less than 20 percent of the population had access to electricity.

This project distributes high-quality Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) to improve lighting technology in Rwanda’s residential sector instead of the energy-hungry incandescent lights (ICLs) used.

And implemented by the national public electricity utility Rwanda Energy Group Ltd (REG).

The project has contributed to poverty alleviation by reducing household expenditure on electricity bills, as CFLs are 75% more efficient than ICLs.