Gold standard for the global goals Monitoring report June 2017, version 1 Page 1 of 40 Title of the project Smokeless Cook Stoves for Rural Districts of Nepal Gold Standard project id GS 1191 Version number of the monitoring report 3 Completion date of the monitoring report 15/06/2020 Date of project design certification 01/01/2014 Start date of crediting period 01/01/2013 Duration of this monitoring period Period 3 from 01/05/2018 to 31/07/2019 Duration of previous monitoring period Period 2 from 01/04/2014 to 25/04/2015 Project representative(s) Dr. Reinhard Hallermayer, “Die Ofenmacher e.V.”, Germany Anita Badal, Swastha Chulo Nepal Host Country Nepal Certification pathway (activity certification/impact certification) Impact Statements & Products (VER Project Certification) SDG Contributions targeted (as per 1 – Climate Action (SDG 13) approved PDD) 2 - Good health and well-being (SDG 3) 3 - Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) 4 – Gender Equality (SDG 5) Gold Standard statement/product certification sought GS VER (GSVER/ADALYs/RECs etc.) Selected methodology(ies) AMS II. G., version 3 Estimated amount of annual average SDG 13: 7,648 tonnes CO2 certified SDG impact (as per approved PDD) SDG 3: 8,503 ICS SDG 7: 8,503 ICS SDG 5: 0 women Total amount of certified SDG impact (as SDG 13: 6,696 tonnes CO2 per approved methodology) achieved in this SDG 3: 8,537 ICS monitoring period SDG 7: 8,537 ICS SDG 5: 7 women Page 2 of 40 SECTION A. Description of project A.1. Purpose and general description of project The objective of the project is the installation of mud brick cook stoves in individual households in three rural districts of Nepal in order to substitute the traditional fireplaces for cooking without discharge of the smoke into the environment. The widespread energy resources of the increasing population in Nepal for cooking are fuel wood from surrounding forests in the rural area. The requirements for fuel wood will be steadily high above the production of fuel wood and therefore exceed the available renewable woody biomass. The traditional three-stone fireplaces or other common used traditional fireplaces (see picture below) result in high indoor air pollution with high concentration of smoke gases and particulate matter because all these substances remain within the house. Therefore, the common used fireplaces have several serious drawbacks for the families: - The people have to live in their houses with almost permanently irritation by smoke from the fireplace. - Frequently accidents occur with open fire, which often result in severe burns and mostly affecting children. - Frequently chronic diseases of the respiratory system, the lungs and the vessels are developed by the users - The smoky atmosphere is a permanent irritation of the eyes and the respiratory system - The cooking procedure is inefficient and consumes a lot of fuel wood for this. The polluted atmosphere in the house mainly affects women and small children because they stay most of the time in their houses. Women have to cook the meals for their families and take their small children with them during that procedure. Women also must provide the fuel wood from surrounding forests. (picture source: Die Ofenmacher e.V.) The project objective is to replace the traditional fire places (see left picture above) by built-on-site mud brick cook stoves with an outlet for the firing gases directly outside the house. Therefore the atmosphere in the house is smokeless with only little pollution (see right picture above) which prevents burning accidents and improves the health situation while preventing diseases of the household members. The second main effect of the cook stove is the considerable efficiency increase of the combustion of fuel wood. This leads to a reduction of the necessary amount of fuel wood for cooking. Page 3 of 40 The project activity reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by replacing the traditional fire places by more efficient mud brick cook stoves and saving therefore fuel wood from non-renewable sources. The type of cook stove is known in Nepal as improved cook stove (ICS). Construction start 17/09/2012 Construction date of first ICS in Kavre-Palanchok Construction break 26/04/2015 Due to terrible earthquake in project area to 14/12/2015 Construction end Continuing Operation start 18/09/2012 Start of 1st monitoring period 01/01/2013 End of 1st monitoring period 31/03/2014 Start of 2nd monitoring period 01/04/2014 End of 2nd monitoring period 24/04/2015 Suspension of crediting 25/04/2015 Suspension of crediting but not of operation to 30/04/2018 Start of 3rd monitoring period 01/05/2018 A.2. Location of project Host Country: Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Region/ State/ Province: The project is located in the foothills and mountain areas in the Central Development Region of Nepal. The project area includes districts Dolakha, Kavre-Palanchok and Ramechhap. Their administrative boundaries are also representing the actual project boundaries. Map of project districts Page 4 of 40 All locations where improved cook stoves (ICS) have been installed are within a distance of 70 to 150 kilometres from the capital city Kathmandu. Coordinates of the project area: Coordinates Latitude 27 o 44‘ N (+27,73 o) Longitude 85 o 58’ E (+85,97 o) The values of the latitude and longitude are mean values and are correlated to the central point of the project region. A.3. Reference of applied methodology The project follows the methodology outlined in the small scale project activity category in Type II G. / Version 03 EB 60 “Energy Efficiency Measures in Thermal Applications of Non-Renewable Biomass” A.4. Crediting period of project Fixed crediting period (10 years) Start of crediting period: 01/01/2013 Suspension of crediting: From 01/05/2015 to 30/04/2018 (3 full years) End of crediting period: 31/12/2025 SECTION B. Implementation of project B.1. Description of implemented project Introduction On Saturday 25th of April 2015 a horrible earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 rocked the central region of Nepal. Another horrible one rocked Nepal on 12th of May 2015 with a magnitude of 7.3. The epicentres of the earthquakes were located about 70 to 80 km northwest and northeast of Kathmandu. Innumerable aftershocks happened with magnitudes from about 4 up to 6. All these earthquakes left great damages in the valley of Kathmandu and even more in nearby districts. Thousands of people lost their lives and even up to one million people lost their houses because these were destroyed or severely damaged so they were inhabitable no longer for their owners. The victims mostly lost all their belongings and were homeless. In addition, the aftershocks left great damages too and produced great ongoing fear of the local people. The following map shows the earthquakes in Nepal from 25th April to 25th June: Page 5 of 40 (Source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventproducts/us20002926/NepalAftershocksMap-0626- 2015.pdf ) The earthquakes severely stroked all project districts. About half a year after this event according to our information we estimated that about 3/4 of all built improved cook stoves had been destroyed or completely inoperative. This was a severe throwback to our project. For that reason, we decided to make a request to Gold Standard Foundation for suspending the crediting of the project. A suspension of crediting was accepted for 3 years. Therefore, the current monitoring period starts on 01/05/2018. Status of implemented project Throughout the project period from the project start on 01/09/2012 to 31/07/2019 in all districts of the project area improved cook stoves had been installed. The previous monitoring report showed that at the end of the second monitoring period there existed 9465 installed improved cook stoves (ICS). These stoves are documented in the project database. The basis for the monitoring report of the third monitoring period is a copy from the database, which was drawn in the beginning of September 2019. The damages of the earthquakes and the number of inoperable stoves are derived from published official damage numbers of Nepal government. This derivation leads to an estimation of stoves still in operation. It is described in a separated document that is the basis for the design changes in the project design description1. The results of stoves still in operation are different for the three districts: Kavre- All Total ICS Month Dolakha Palanchok Ramechhap districts in use 01.05.2015 244 1278 2355 3877 3877 That means 3877 stoves are still in operation on 1st May 2015. All others are counted as totally damaged and not operable. 1 See Excel File GS1191-Damage-Estimation_V4.xlsx submitted in connection with GS1191 Project Design Change documents Page 6 of 40 During the time of suspension of crediting some new stoves have been built in project area who substituted damaged stoves or delivered new stoves to households who did not have stoves before and whose houses are not or only slightly damaged and therefore in an inhabitable state. The project built the following ICS from 01/05/2015 to 30/04/2018: Kavre- All Total ICS Month Dolakha Palanchok Ramechhap districts built 01/05/2015 244 1278 2355 3878 3877 After 01/05/2015 2 0 0 2 3879 2016 120 0 4 124 4003 2017 1104 0 0 1104 5107 2018 until 30.04.2018 486 0 0 486 5593 Therefore, the starting point of the third monitoring period are 5593 built cook stoves on 1st May 2018. The next table shows the built improved cook stoves regarding months during the third monitoring period (after 30th April 2018): Kavre- All Total ICS Month Dolakha Palanchok Ramechhap districts built May 2018 57 0 0 57 5650 June 2018 149 0 0 149 5799 July 2018 128 0 0 128 5927 August 2018 145 0 0 145 6072 September 2018 141 0 0 141 6213 October 2018 188 0 3 191 6404 November 2018 161 0 3 164 6568 December 2018 182 44 13 239 6807 January 2019 152 34 5 191 6998 February 2019 188 0 11 199 7197 March 2019 323 225 0 548 7745 April 2019 374 13 0 387 8132 May 2019 417 119 0 536 8668 June 2019 481 9 0 490 9158 July 2019 302 0 0 302 9460 Sum 5344 1722 2394 9460 9460 Please note that the stoves installed in July 2019 might be not completely reported and documented in the database.