But there is more
Climate Change Mitigation
The approximately 400,000 biogas digesters distributed under the program to date reduce GHG emissions by about 725,000 tCO2e per year and by 14.5 million tCO2e over the typical 20-year lifetime of a digester. This reduction is nearly double Luxembourg's total annual GHG emissions in 2023.
Improving Rural Lives
Installing biogas digesters greatly improves the living conditions of the households by reducing indoor-air pollution, offering better sanitation and reducing the smell of an open manure pit.
A Sustainable Future
Using clean energy like biogas for cooking instead of coal and firewood has many advantages for the participating households: it is for free, it doesn’t need to be collected or purchased and it provides high-quality fertilizer thus contributing to better harvest!
What’s New
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January 17, 2024
Successful Issuance of vintage 2022 GS VERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA
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May 8, 2023
Successful Issuance of vintage 2021 GS VERs from UPM’s Sichuan Household Biogas PoA
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About the Project
The Sichuan Household Biogas Programme has provided almost 400,000 poor rural households in China’s Sichuan province with proven biogas digesters for animal manure treatment and with easy-to-use biogas cook stoves to replace coal and firewood. In doing so, it saves enormous amounts of GHG emissions, promotes local sustainable development and improves the living conditions of smallholder families in many ways.
More details about this project, its proponents and its background can be found at
The project reduces GHG emissions by 14,500,000 tons! That’s nearly twice the annual GHG emissions of Luxembourg!
- Project Location: Sichuan Province, China
- Programme Standard: CDM, Gold Standard for the Global Gas (GS4GG)
- Number of currently supported Households: 395,435
- Targeted Number of Households: 1,000,000
- Current annual GHG Emission Reduction: approx. 725,000 tCO2e
Learn more about the multiple climate and SDG impacts of the project
With 87 included household biogas projects, each with approx. 4,500 participating households, the Sichuan Household Biogas Programme is one of the largest and most effective climate protection Programmes of Activities (PoAs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Gold Standard for the Global Goals (GS4GG).
Learn more about how this programme contributes to protecting the earth’s climate and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sichuan.
Do you want to contribute to a more sustainable future?
Some of the most reputable public and private sector entities around the globe are already supporting our top-tier Sichuan Household Biogas Programme.
Do you also want to join our fight against global warming, contribute to a more sustainable future and help needy farmer families in Sichuan?
Find out who already supports us and learn more on how to become part of this wonderful and much recognized climate action programme by purchasing its Gold Standard carbon credits!
