ANNEX R – PASSPORT TEMPLATE 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 SECTION A. Project Title [See Toolkit 1.6] Title: Yanhe, Dejiang, and Yinjiang Rural Methane Digesters Project in Guizhou Province, China Date: Nov. 06, 2013 Version no.: Version 05.1 SECTION B. Project description [See Toolkit 1.6] Yanhe, Dejiang and Yinjiang Rural Methane Digesters Project in Guizhou Province (here after referred as ‘the proposed project’) is located in Tongren District, Guizhou Province, and the annual average temperature is 16.2℃. Within the Area, the households have contributed to anthropogenic emissions, of which the following are related to the Project activity: 1. CH4 emissions from swine farms (every family has an average of 4.20 pigs, and their manure is responsible for CH4 emissions, naturally vented into the atmosphere) 2. CO2 emissions from cooking based on burning of coal briquette and/or firewood The Project goal is to install 24,999 Rural Methane Digesters (“RMD”) that will collect swine manure and other wastes, store the produced CH4 (avoiding the CH4 generation) and utilize the CH4 for cooking purposes (reducing emissions from coal combustion). The star date of the project activity is Apr. 15th 2008. Each RMD will have 8 m3 capacity and an annual production of around 385m3 of biogas. The 24,999 RMD has been implemented respectively in the three years of 2008, 2009 and 2010, and the construction period of systems in each year is 6 months. Each RMD is owned by one household. The Project exists due to the effort of the developer; Guizhou Black Carbon Energy Technology Promotion and Application Co., Ltd. (hereafter refer to “GBCET”). GBCET has invested private resources to define the technical scheme of the RMD, inform the local communities, set up an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) team and developed the documentation required by the CDM. An O&M team which named Methane Service Center is established in each town and the technicians are responsible for daily management and maintenance of the digesters and related equipment, and for data monitoring to ensure the normal operation of the digesters. As a result, GBCET was able to overcome the following barriers: 1. Capacity to absorb new technologies: the target locations are very mountainous and rural and without GBCET’s dedicated team in place to promote the Project, there would not have been awareness of the RMDs by the households; the Project is difficult to implement as the households are scattered and spread across the large area; the households are unlikely to have the knowledge and capacity to operate and maintain the RMDs adequately by themselves. 2. Financial resources: without CER revenues, the households would have not invested and operated the RMDs (due to high investment compared to the current manure management system and cooking methods and too long payback period for households). The project will distribute a portion of the revenue from CERs to the households to cover a portion of Operation and Maintenance costs. 3. Due to prevailing practice: prevailing practice and traditional consumption habits of fossil fuel usage will lead to higher emissions. The estimated annual GHG emission reductions of the Project are 53,247 tCO2e, as explained in Section B.6.3 of the PDD. The Project activity will bring the following sustainable development benefits to the Area with a deep and long impact on the economy and environment: a) Better environment: reduces emissions from coal and dirty fuel sources whilst at the same time reducing potential ground and surface water contamination through better manure management and reduces deforestation b) Improved health conditions: less exposure to pollutants from coal combustion for the households which will reduce indoor air pollution and the incidence of connected respiratory and other illnesses c) Greater flexibility in energy usage: provides one fuel source for cooking d) Provides local employment both for construction and ongoing operation and maintenance of the RMDs TableA2: Milestones of the project Main Events Date Rural Household Biogas Investigation report of 08/2007 Yanhe, Dejiang and Yinjiang County Notice of the county biogas digester Yanhe county 18/03/2008, Dejiang county construction programme 10/04/2008, Yinjiang county 12/04/2008 Start construction (the project starting date) Yanhe county 15/04/2008 (considered as the start date), Dejiang county 16/04/2008, Yinjiang county 18/04/2008 Project Operation date 01/01/2011 Project Registration date as a CDM project 26/11/2012 SECTION C. Proof of project eligibility C.1. Scale of the Project [See Toolkit 1.2.a] Please tick where applicable: Project Type Large Small C.2. Host Country [See Toolkit 1.2.b] China C.3. Project Type [See Toolkit 1.2.c and Annex C] Please tick where applicable: 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? Does your project activity classify as waste handling and disposal project? Please justify the eligibility of your project activity: The scale of the project belongs to the small scale of CDM project. And the project is located in Tongren District, Guizhou province, China. The household is the end use of the project. The unique ID (serial number) is given to every biogas digester of peasant household and used in the project management procedure, and the relevant information of biogas digester, such as name, location and serial number, is put on record in the local energy office, which means final end‐users of services delivered can be clearly identified and therefore within the project boundaries. The project activity will change the existing swine manure treatment at the household level from deep pits to household biogas digesters. The biogas digesters provide biogas for cooking and other heating needs for households, replacing the fossil fuel coal. The project will reduce CH4 emission from the slurry stored in a deep pit, and reduce CO2 emission from burn of coal. The project didn’t involve any ODA. Moreover, there’s no statement on preannouncement. Therefore, based on the descriptions above, the project is eligible for Gold Standard project. Pre Announcement Yes No Was your project previously announced? Explain your statement on pre announcement C.4. Greenhouse gas [See Toolkit 1.2.d] Greenhouse Gas Carbon dioxide Methane Nitrous oxide C.5. Project Registration Type [See Toolkit 1.2.f] Project Registration Type Regular Preliminary Retroactive evaluation (eg: Large Rejected by projects Hydro or palm oil‐ UNFCCC Pre‐feasibility assessment (T.2.5.1) related project) (T2.5.3) (T.2.5.2) If Retroactive, please indicate Start Date of project activity dd/mm/yyyy:___15/04/2008_________ SECTION D. Unique project identification D.1. GPS‐coordinates of project location [See Toolkit 1.6] Coordinates Latitude 27.5833°‐29.1000° N Longitude 107.7667°‐108.8000° E Explain given coordinates The geographical coordinates of Yanhe County are east longitude 108.0500°‐108.6167° and north latitude 28.2000°‐29.1000°; Dejiang County are east longitude 107.7667°‐108.4167° and north latitude 28.0000°‐28.6333°; Yinjiang County are east longitude 108.3000°‐108.8000°and north latitude 27.5833°‐28.3333°. D.2. Map [See Toolkit 1.6] Guizhou Province Tongren District Yanhe County Dejiang County Yinjiang County SECTION E. Outcome stakeholder consultation process E.1. Assessment of stakeholder comments [See Annex J] According to Annex P of the gold standard toolkit version 2.2, for the retroactive project, the local stakeholder consultation (LSC) is not applicable. 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. [See Toolkit 2.11] Stakeholder feedback round was performed based on the SFR consultation meetings, which was held on 02/07/2013. The invitation methods include email, posting the notification, newspaper advertising, living meeting and individual invitation and interview etc. The invited peoples involve NGOs, NDRC, Government officials, local residents etc. There was no negative comment received from the stakeholders. The project participants explained to the stakeholders that the project activity will continuously contribute to the local sustainable development. i. Invitation The PP invited NGOs, NDRC, GS Local Expert, the local government and residents by emails, telephone calls and express and so on. However, there’s no relevant GS NGOs and NDRC attend the meeting due to limits of time and distance, nor response to the invitations. And those stakeholders cannot participate the meeting with no comments sending to the project; moreover, they didn’t have further special comment on the project activity after the SFR consultation meeting. Table E1: Invitation List Category Code Organization (if Way of invitation Date of invitation Confirmation relevant) received? Y/N C NDRC Express 31/05/2013 Y E GS Local Expert shirley@cdmgold 30/05/2013 Y standard.org; annyta@ cdmgoldstandard. org B Local DRC Telephone 30/05/2013 Y B Local Telephone 30/05/2013 Y environmental protection officer A Local energy Telephone 30/05/2013 Y office A Local resident Notice on local 19/06/2013 (early Y newspaper (also in June) put the notice on the local energy office bulletin board) F Greenpeace supporter.service 30/05/2013 Y International s.int@greenpeace .org F HELIO helio@helio‐ 30/05/2013 Y International international.org F Mercy Corps [email protected] 30/05/2013 Y corps.org F REEEP katrin.harvey@re 30/05/2013 Y eep.org F World Vision Dean.Thomson@ 30/05/2013 Y Australia worldvision.com.