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1 GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT CONTENTS A. Project title B. Project description C. Proof of project eligibility D. Unique Project Identification E. Outcome stakeholder consultation process F. Outcome sustainability assessment G. Sustainability monitoring plan H. Additionality and conservativeness deviations Annex 1 ODA declarations 1

2 SECTION A. GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT Project Title Sidlaghatta biogas project SECTION B. Project description The project is to install a 2 m 3 biogas/day capacity biodigester and about 15 tons of vermicompost production per year capacity unit in the selected and eligible to about 5000 beneficiary households in Sidlaghatta taluk, Doodhbalapura taluk, Devanahalli taluk, Gubbi and Tumkur taluks of the Karnataka State, India. The biodigester unit will treat animal manure in anaerobic condition and produce biogas, which will replace the traditional inefficient firewood cook stove. About 4 tons/household/year of fuel-wood consumed for cooking by the traditional cook-stoves will be saved by the biodigester. Indoor air pollution will be avoided by using clean biogas stove. The biodigester-spent slurry will be mixed with other organic wastes and conditioned in aerobic condition before introducing earthworms to produce the vermicompost that would replace the chemical fertilisers. In absence of the project, the wastes are otherwise left to decay in inefficient traditional compost pits, creating pollution and unhealthy conditions. This vermicompost contains higher nutrient values than any other organic manure. The woman of the household will own each biogas and the vermicompost unit. She will be carrying out the feeding of the waste in the unit and get the benefits by maintaining it. Initially each beneficiary has to contribute partly to the project, in the form of providing locally available material for construction of the units or/and physical labour for installation of the unit. The project beneficiary can benefit from the project up to a period of not less than 20 years. The GHG emissions due to the burning of firewood in traditional inefficient cook stoves can be avoided by using biogas generated in the biodigester. It is estimated that for each unit about 7 tons of CO2 equivalent can be saved per year in the project. Estimated start date of construction: Project unit s installation has been started since 01/08/2009 and a total of 5000 biogas units to be constructed in the above mentioned taluks of Karnataka state, India. Methodology used: Indicative programme, baseline, and monitoring methodology for Small Scale Biodigester, Voluntary Gold Standard, Version 1. 2

3 SECTION C. Proof of project eligibility GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT C.1. Scale of the Project Please tick where applicable: Project Type Large Small C.2. Host Country INDIA C.3. Project Type Project type Yes No Does your project activity classify as a Renewable Energy project? Does your project activity classify as an End-use Energy Efficiency Improvement project? 3

4 Please justify the eligibility of your project activity: The Sidlaghatta biogas project is carried out by SKG Sangha, an India based NGO, working towards the development of rural areas in various states of Karnataka. This particular project involves the construction of a biodigester and a vermicompost unit for each beneficiary. This project will avoid methane emissions that would have otherwise occurred in absence of the project and also replaces the use of firewood, which has been a wide cause of deforestation in the project area. The project falls in the category Biogas, and satisfies the eligibility criteria as per the conditions mentioned in the GS Toolkit Annexes. Pre Announcement Yes No Was your project previously announced? Explain your statement on pre announcement C.4. Greenhouse gas Greenhouse Gas Carbon dioxide Methane Nitrous oxide C.5. Project Registration Type Project Registration Type Regular Pre-feasibility assessment Retroactive projects (T.2.5.1) Preliminary evaluation (eg: Large Hydro or palm oil-related project) (T.2.5.2) Rejected by UNFCCC (T2.5.3) If Retroactive, please indicate Start Date of Construction dd/mm/yyyy: 15/06/2009 4

5 SECTION D. Unique project identification D.1. GPS-coordinates of project location Sidhalaghatta Taluk Latitude Longitude Coordinates 13 23' 45 N 77 51' 17 E Devanahalli Taluk Latitude Longitude Coordinates 13 14' 67 N 77 42' 13 E Doddaballapura Taluk Latitude Longitude Coordinates 13 17' 21 N 77 31' 06 E Gubbi Taluk Latitude Longitude Coordinates 13 18' 27 N 76 56' 18 E Tumkur Taluk Latitude Longitude Coordinates 13 20' 28 N 77 06' 06 E Explain given coordinates 5

6 D.2. Map GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT SECTION E. Outcome stakeholder consultation process E.1. Assessment of stakeholder comments Stakeholder comment Why do you consider a minimum requirement of 2 cows/ or buffaloes with the family Was comment taken into account (Yes/ No)? Yes Explanation (Why? How?) To produce the biogas, it requires a continuous feed of cow-dung on a regular basis. Therefore a family should have minimum number of cows to make 6

7 Why SKG Sangha does not implement this project on a large scale? How to carry out the maintenance of the biogas plant? How does the biogas reduce the pollution? GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT Yes Yes Yes sure the availability of the cow-dung assuring regular production of the biogas. SKG Sangha would be very keen to implement the biogas project on a large scale but it is restricted to do so due to the limited available financial resource and aid. For this particular project SKG Sangha has received a limited amount of funding from GoodPlanet org, under the voluntary carbon market scheme. The SKG Sangha field team performs a regular monitoring work of each biogas plant throughout the year to make sure it s in a good working condition. Otherwise the family can contact the organisation if faced with any technical issues of the biogas. The biogas plant needs cow-dung to produce the gas. If the cow-dung is not utilised by the plant, it is discarded in an open pit, which leads to emissions of methane gas. Methane gas is one of the harmful gases, which pollute the environment. The biogas plant helps to stop the methane pollution by using the cow-dung in the production of the gas and burning the gas to fulfil the cooking needs. E.2. Stakeholder Feedback Round Please describe report how the feedback round was organised, what the outcomes were and how you followed up on the feedback. This is a community-based project and the beneficiaries are also part of the stakeholder meeting. Apart from the beneficiaries the other invitees including local and international NGO s have physically visited the project site. The feedback round has been carried out by sending the documents to the stakeholders those who not attend the meeting. The additional comments from this feedback round would be included in the respective documents. The stakeholder feedback rounds carried out for the project are as follows: 1. Date: PDD and the GS Passport publicly available for the Stakeholder Feedback Round (SFR) on the GS registry. No comments were received during this feedback round. 7

8 2. Date: PDD and the GS Passport publicly available for the Stakeholder Feedback Round (SFR) on the GS registry. No comments were received during this feedback round. A copy of the received by one of the stakeholders during this feedback round has been provided to the GS 8

9 SECTION F. GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT Outcome Sustainability assessment F.1. Do no harm Assessment Safeguarding principles Human Rights The project respects internationally proclaimed human rights including dignity, cultural property and uniqueness of indigenous people. The project is not complicit in Human Rights abuses. The project does not involve and is not complicit in involuntary resettlement. The project does not involve and is not complicit in the alteration, damage or removal of any critical cultural heritage Labour Standards The project respects the employees freedom of association and their right to collective bargaining and is not complicit in restrictions of these freedoms and rights The project does not involve and is not complicit in any form of forced or compulsory labour Description of relevance to my project Yes, the project respects the internationally proclaimed human rights in all aspects. No, there is no involuntary resettlement in the project. No, there are no alterations, damage or removal to any cultural heritage due to the project activity. Yes, the project respects the freedom of the employees. No, there is no forced or compulsory labour in the project activity. The beneficiaries of the project willingly come forward to volunteer during the construction of the biogas units. Assessment of my project risks breaching it (low, medium, high) Low Low - Low - Low Low - Mitigation measure Measures are taken by the project promoter to avoid disrespect of human rights due any of the on-going project activities. The project has generated local employment opportunities and also respects the freedom and rights of the employees. 1

10 The project does not employ and is not complicit in any form of child labour The project does not involve and is not complicit in any form of discrimination based on gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or any other basis. The project provides workers with a safe and healthy work environment and is not complicit in exposing workers to unsafe or unhealthy work environments. Environmental Protection The project takes a precautionary approach in regard to environmental challenges and is not complicit in practices contrary to the precautionary principle. The project does not involve and is not complicit in significant conversion or degradation of critical natural habitats, including those that are (a) legally protected, (b) officially proposed for protection, (c) identified by authoritative sources for their high conservation value, or (d) recognized as protected by traditional local communities. Anti-Corruption The project does not involve and is not complicit in corruption. The project does not employ any form of child labour. The project being a rural development does not strictly complicit in any form of discrimination. The project involves construction of biogas units with safe and healthy working environment. Yes, the project takes all the necessary precautions in regards to the environmental challenges. The project is implemented for rural development and does not involve any degradation of natural habitats in the project area. No, the project does not complicit in corruption. Low Low Low - The project promoters have been taking initiation to stop any form of child labour in the project area. More over the children are freed from collectionof fire wood due to the project activity. The project promotes equal and unbiased access to clean energy through the biogas programme to the rural families irrespective of the race, religion or gender. Medium The project promotes carry out a regular maintenance of the units to make sure that there are no leakages of harmful GHG due to the activity. Low -- Low Selecting the families for the biogas units depends on the availability of the animals (min 2 cows) and this selection process is not based on any kind of corruption activity. 2

11 F.2. Sustainable Development matrix Indicator Mitigation measure Relevance to achieving MDG Chosen parameter and explanation Preliminary score Gold Standard indicators of sustainable development If relevant, copy mitigation measure from Do No Harm assessment, and include mitigation measure used to neutralise a score of - Check and Describe how your indicator is related to local MDG goals Defined by project developer Negative impact: score - in case negative impact is not fully mitigated, score 0 in case impact is planned to be fully mitigated No change in impact: score 0 Positive impact: score + Air quality To check if there are any gas leakages in the pipes carrying the gas from the biodigesters to the burner. MDG Environmental sustainability. Biogas replaces the use of woodstoves or other fossil based cookingstoves. MDG Environmental sustainability. Methane emissions (CH4) Odour - The strong odour of cow-dung is avoided by its use in the biogas plant. 0 Total amount of water utilised. (Litres/yr) Water quality and quantity The biogas plant does not affect the quality of the water as it requires very little water and also, it does not affect the availability of the water resource in the region. MDG s universal education and environmental sustainability. - By training the rural population about the benefits of biogas over The parameter will give comparison between the amount of available water in the area and quantity of water used for the biogas plant. 0 Soil condition Production of vermicompost and help improves the fertility of the agricultural soil. Vermicompost production (tons/yr)- The monitoring report will include if there has been decrease in the fertiliser use compared to the baseline situation by using the vermicompost. + 3

12 firewood and reducing the excess use of the chemical fertilisers for agriculture by utilising the vermicompost. MDG environment sustainability. Other pollutants The biogas plant avoids the pollutants from the use of firewood during cooking. MDG environment sustainability. Biogas production. This will give the amount of avoided firewood that might have been used in the absence of the biogas and giving rise to pollutants like particulate matters, NOx, SOx. 0 Biodiversity To keep a record of the reduction firewood use in the project area thereby leading to conservation of the near-by forest area. Though the project does not directly relate to the development of the biodiversity of the project area but at least SKGS will monitor the project annually to make sure that beneficiaries are continuously using the biogas and do not switch back to firewood. In the long-term the project will help to restore the forest that can sustain various species of both plant and animals depending on this forest area. 0 Quality of employment This indicator is not included in the project activity, as the construction of the biodigesters does not pose any serious risk to the health and safety of the labourers. 0 Livelihood of the poor Access to affordable and clean energy services Human and To check the vermicomposting unit on a regular basis. MDG End poverty and hunger. Income by vermicompost. The vermicompost can be sold to the neighbouring farmers and can be an additional income source to the beneficiaries MDG end poverty and hunger. Total biogas production. This gives the total amount of the biogas produced assuring the working and continuous gas supply from the biogas plant MDG- MDG End poverty and hunger, Gender equality and Training Programmes: SKGS provides a regular training programme to the + + 4

13 Institutional capacity universal education. beneficiaries to assure an efficient use of the biogas and vermicomposting units. Since the project replaces the use of firewood, the women of the household show keen interests in such trainings as it relieves them from the health issues that would have caused due to the smoke from the use of firewood for cooking. + Quantitative employment and income generation MDG environment sustainability. End poverty and hunger, Gender equality and universal education. Vermicompost production: The project being a rural development, it will not directly provide employment to all the beneficiaries but will be a source to produce vericompost that can replace the use of chemical fertilisers and thus reducing their annual expenditures. The vermicompost can also be a source of income generation to the beneficiaries if they can produce enough organic compost to sell it, after utilising for their agricultural needs Balance of Payments and investment The project does not address this indicator directly. 0 Technology transfer and technological selfreliance Regular check of the biogas plant by the NGO for an assurance of the working condition. MDG End poverty and hunger, universal education. Training the beneficiaries are being trained about the functioning of the biogas and about the precautionary actions needed. A number of training programmes are also carried out by the SKGS team both for the technical and the monitoring team. A regular field training programmes are carried out for the beneficiaries on the production of vermicompost. Justification choices, data source and provision of references A justification paragraph and reference source is required for each indicator, regardless of score References can be an academic or non-academic source, such as a university research document, a feasibility study report, EIA, relevant website, etc

14 Air quality The indoor air quality improves due to the project as unlike firewood biogas produces no smoke 1. The project reduces the methane emissions that would have occurred if the cow-dung as left to decay in the compost pits. The foul smell of the cow-dung is also reduced making sure a hygienic environment for the beneficiaries in the project area 2. Water quality and quantity The project does not affect the quantity of water in the project region, as it requires a very small amount of water to produce the biogas. Soil condition The spent slurry from the biogas plant is further utilised to make organic compost 3 with the help of the agricultural waste and earthworms. The compost is called as vermicompost and is further utilised as an organic fertiliser in the farm and reduces the use of the chemical fertilisers. Other pollutants The biogas project reduces other pollutants that might have been caused due to the use of firewood for daily cooking needs of the beneficiaries in the project area 4. Biodiversity The project does not directly affect the biodiversity of the area therefore this indicator is not considered 5. Quality of employment Livelihood of the poor The vermicomposting unit are generally managed by the women and gives the beneficiaries an opportunity to be selfemployed. The additional income by selling the vermicompost depends on the needs for agricultural activities of each family participating in the project. Vermicomposting technology is easy to practice; ecologically safe, economically sound and can create more employment opportunities for the rural people to upgrade their standard of living 6. The implementation of the projects uplifts the livelihood of the poor 7 by assuring a continuous supply of biogas, reducing the dependence on the forest and saving investments on chemical fertilisers by using the organic vermicompost

15 Access to affordable and clean energy services Human and institutional capacity Quantitative employment and income generation Balance of payments and investment Technology transfer and technological self-reliance The biogas plant is s source to affordable and clean energy 8. The project beneficiaries have to bear a part of the material cost or volunteer in the construction of the biogas. The other remaining cost is borne by the SKG Sangha, thus making sure that the biogas plant is affordable to the poor. The project activity includes training programmes on the effective management of both the biogas and vermicomposting units. These trainings are given to both the men and women participating in the project either by organising for a group of beneficiaries and/or by providing training directly on-site by the visiting SKGS project officer. The training programmes/guidance/technical reparation provided by the SKGS supervisors is separately recorded on a field monitoring sheet. Also regular annual training programme is organised for the supervisors of the SKG Sangha organisation. The project activity promotes the production of vermicompost during the year. The total vermicompost produced by the beneficiaries can either be used for their own agricultural needs and/or can be sold to the neighbouring farmers, which would generate an additional income for the beneficiary. The project activity promotes the use of the exisiting biogas technology in the country and also reduces the additional expenses and dependency of the beneficiaries on chemical fertilisers 9. A successful implementation of this project will also help to promote future investments for similar large-scale projects in the region. To make sure that the biogas functions properly in its future, the beneficiaries are being trained on the maintenance and working of the biogas by the technical team of the SKG Sangha. A number of training programmes are also carried out by the SKGS team both for the technical and the monitoring team. A regular field training programmes are carried out for the beneficiaries on the production of vermicompost. A continuous effort is being taken by the SKGS team while visiting the neighbouring villages & taluks, to create awareness about the benefits of the biogas programme both to the environment and the local people. This project activity is a result of such awareness campaigns that were previously undertaken in the project areas and the implementation of more biogas units is expected to increase in the following years of the project activity

16 SECTION G. Sustainability Monitoring Plan No 1 Indicator Soil Condition Mitigation measure Production of vermin-compost and help improves the fertility of the agricultural soil. Repeat for each parameter Chosen parameter Current situation of parameter Estimation of baseline situation of parameter Future target for parameter Quantity of vermicompost produced per household. Use of chemical fertilisers. -- tons/yr 8 tons/yr expected Way of monitoring How The monitoring survey will be carried out by selecting the households on a random basis. To ensure that the beneficiaries have initiated the production and application of the vermicompost to their agricultural land, each beneficiary from the survey sample will be asked : The total quantity of vermicompost produced during the year. The production of the total quantity of vermicompost will be measured through the available sacks which usually has a capacity of 50 kg. Each beneficiary in the survey will be asked how many sacks they produced during the entire year. This will give the quantity of the vermicompost produced in the project activity. If the beneficiary has used the vermicompost instead of the chemical fertilisers and/or if it was used partially along with other fertilisers. The monitoring survey will also report if there have been no vermicompost production by the beneficiaries selected in the survey. If there is no vermicompost production, the appropriate justification/reasoning will be provided in each monitoring report. This method will assure that through the project activity, the beneficiaries have started the application of the organic manure, which in the longer term will help retain the fertility of the soil. And also, help to understand the various local issues faced by the beneficiary, if there has been no vermicompost production by 1

17 When By who any of the beneficiary either due to lack of training or for any other valid reasons. Once a year KG Sangha will carry out the monitoring survey and as a third party assessment, the GoodPlanet Association team will also check the data and conduct a site visit to the units that were surveyed for monitoring of the project. No 2 Indicator Livelihood of the poor Mitigation measure Repeat for each parameter Chosen parameter Current situation of parameter Estimation of baseline situation of parameter Future target for parameter Quantity of vermicompost produced per household. Use of chemical fertilisers -- tons/yr 8 tons/yr expected Way of monitoring How Monitoring survey will include the data of the total amount of vermicompost produced by the beneficiary and if there has been additional income by selling the compost to the local farmers. When Once a year By who SKG Sangha No 3 Indicator Access to affordable and clean energy services Mitigation measure Regular check of the biogas plant by the SKGS for an assurance of the working condition. Repeat for each parameter Chosen parameter Current situation of parameter Estimation of baseline situation of parameter Future target for parameter - If any failures or technical issues with the working of the biogas unit. Use of firewood and/or kerosene for daily cooking needs tons/year of firewood and 25 litres/year of kerosene used per family as per the baseline survey in the project activity. Way of monitoring How Monitoring survey to be carried out for the project activity by the SKGS. When Once a year By who SKG Sangha No 4 2

18 Indicator Mitigation measure Repeat for each parameter Chosen parameter Current situation of parameter Estimation of baseline situation of parameter Future target for parameter GOLD STANDARD PASSPORT Human and Institutional capacity No training provided No training provided trainings to be provided to the beneficiaries on effective management of biogas and vermicomposting units. Way of monitoring How Monitoring survey will include the total number of trainings conducted for the beneficiaries and the team members of SKGS When Once a year By who SKG Sangha Additional remarks monitoring The monitoring of the above mentioned sustainable parameters would be carried out with the help of the beneficiaries so as to make sure that beneficiaries are also aware of the benefits of the project in terms of rural and environmental development. SECTION H. Additionality and conservativeness This section is only applicable if the section on additionality and/or your choice of baseline does not follow Gold Standard guidance H.1. Additionality H.2. Conservativeness ANNEX 1 ODA declaration No ODA funds are involved as the project is funded with VER revenues 3

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