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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Südfrika. Kuyasa, in Solarthermieanlage einer Installation Energy for refugees 21st century Climate Trek Nepal technology How does carbon offsetting work? Carb Carbon emissions remain in the atmosphere for many years and atmosfair spart mit seinen Projekten CO2 spread around the world as greenhouse gases. atmosfair offsets ein und baut erneuerbare Energien vor Ort auf. CO2-Emissionen activities that produce carbon emissions and for which there are werden in gleicher Menge an anderer Stelle eingespart. not yet any climate-friendly alternatives. Es ist egal, wo weltweit CO2 eingespart wird, es entlastet immer das Klima. urch 2°target • d UN rt -P e r Ziel: i ü l l f Limit global e o r ärmung r t warming • n K o o K to 2°C renzen n • t r t o r l e l i + 1 t CO2 + 4 t CO2 + CO2 - 68 t CO2 - 3 t CO2 - 4 t CO2 - 300 kg CO2 for participants from Round-trip flight to for the production of goods Einsparung proTag Einsparung Einsparung Einsparung pro Solar Home System Europe per conference Nepal per passenger pro Ofen und Jahr: pro Anlage und Jahr pro Jahr CO2 Conference A flight from Production and location Kleinwasserkraftwerk Biogasanlagen und Solarenergie und attendance Düsseldorf to Nepal of a company in Honduras Biomasse Windkraft Conferences can only be Far-away destinations Energy efficiency and renewable Das kleine, von atmosfair Die Verwendung von Holz als Milchbauern erhalten Erneuerbare Energien sind in replaced by video can usually only be reached by energy can reduce carbon Energieträger führt zu sauberes Biogas rund um die Deutschland weit verbreitet, conferences to a limited plane. The only climate-friendly emissions during production. But mit dem natürlichen Gefälle Abholzung und Lungen- Uhr, wenn der Kuhdung in aber noch nicht in vielen extent which is why solution would be to avoid flying there are often residual und versorgt eine abgelegene erkrankungen durch Rauch.- kleinen Anlagen auf Ländern Asiens und Afrikas. travel is often altogether. It will still take greenhouse gases that cannot yet Region mit Strom, Unsere Öfen sparen Bauernhöfen vergärt wird. atmosfair hilft bei der Planung unavoidable decades for technology to make be prevented by technical 80 % Holz, Rauch und Geld atmosfair bezahlt den und Finanzierung. air-travel carbon-free. solutions. Stromausfällen litt. für Familien. entscheidenden Zuschuss. €€ €€ €€ € Wie funktioniert CO2 CO2-Kompensation? Das emittierte CO2 bleibt viele Jahrzehnte in der Atmosphäre und atmosfair's projects reduce carbon emissions in developing verteilt sich dabei als Treibhausgas rund um den Globus. atmosfair countries and lay the groundwork for establishing renewable kompensiert Aktivitäten, die CO2 ver energy sources. Carbon emissions are reduced by the same noch keine klimafreundlichen Alternativen gibt. amount in a different location. It doesn't matter where savings of carbon emissions occur, the climate always benefits. durch U • N rt -P e r 2-Gr i ü l l f e o r le Globa r t • n K o o K auf 2°C n • t r t o r l e l i + 1 t CO2 + 4 t CO2 + CO2 - 68 t CO2 - 3 t CO2 - 4 t CO2 - 300 kg CO2 fürTeilnehmer aus Europa eine Flugreise nach Nepal für die Produktion von Gütern Savings per day Savings per Savings Savings per Solar Home pro Konferenz und zurück, pro Passagier stove and year per system and year System per year CO2 Eine Teilnahme Ein Flug von Düsseldorf Produktion und Standort Small hydro power Efficient Biogas plants and Solar energy and an einer Konferenz nach Nepal eines Unternehmens plant in Honduras cookstoves instead biomass wind power The small hydro power of fireplaces Konferenzen können nur Weit entfernte Ziele sind meist In der Produktion kann CO durch plant financed by The use of wood as an Small systems on farms While renewable energies 2 have become common in atmosfair works using a energy source leads to produce biogas from cow bedingt durch Videokonferenzen nur mit dem Flugzeug erreichbar. Energiee°zienz und grüne Energien Germany, they have yet to natural incline and deforestation and lung dung, giving dairy farmers ersetzt werden, weshalb häuÿg Klimafreundlich wäre nur der gesenkt werden. Oft bleiben aber spread to Asian and African supplies electricity to a diseases caused by access to clean biogas countries. atmosfair offers Reisen unabdingbar ist. Verzicht. Es wird noch Jahrzehnte Treibhausgase übrig, für deren remote region that had smoke. Our stoves use around the clock. assistance in the planning dauern, bis Technologien das Vermeidung es noch keine tech- suffered from frequent 80% less wood, atmosfair makes a key power outages. financial contribution. and financing process. Fliegen CO2-frei machen. nischen Lösungen gibt. produce less smoke and cost less for families. €€ €€ €€ € Content 2 Offsetting How does atmosfair work? 5 Editorial 6 From donation to project Honoring our commitments 8 Efficient stoves Rwanda, India, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Lesotho 14 Biogas Kenya und Nepal 18 Renewable energies Ethiopia, India, South Africa, Iraq, Nicaragua, Honduras 24 Sustainable tourism Nepal 26 Environmental education Bringing climate change mitigation to schools 29 Air traffic Climate-friendly air traffic, an oxymoron? 32 Partnerships aatmosfairtmosfair winsgewinnt government Regierungsausschreibungen contracts 39 Financial report 43 References & Partners 44 Press reviews 45 Team PUBLISHED BY atmosfair gGmbH, Dr. Dietrich Brockhagen EDITORIAL STAFF KlimaJournalisten-Büro Berlin TITEL atmosfair gGmbH DESIGN GDesign office: Jules Weigel PRINT RUN 600 PRINTED BY Oktoberdruck AG EMAS-certified, 100 % recycled paper, „Blue Angel“ All figures and photos with no stated source originate from atmosfair gGmbH. Quelle: VisibleEarth NASA 4 atmosfair Annual Report 2017 Editorial The Berlin team thanking our partners in Rwanda, after they congratulated us for winning the comparative study carried out by Stiftung Warentest Dear readers, For every ton of emitted carbon we lose three square meters of ice, a Two climate education organizations support us in this project discovery published by Science Magazine that quickly made the headlines by helping us reach out to thousands of students every year. in 2017. Three square meters (around 322 ft.) of arctic sea ice, which is And, by the way, carbon-offsetting is not even a part of the the equivalent of a large dining table, is an easy indication to visualize. teaching units. Instead, we put an important emphasis on our For their study, Dirk Notz from the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology leading principle which is to avoid, reduce and only offset the in Hamburg and Julienne Stroeve from the US-National Snow and Ice unavoidable and unreducible. After all, it is about conveying Data Center investigated the relation between arctic sea ice and the fundamentals. Find out more about this subject on page carbon emissions. They discovered a direct link between the ice 26. coverage in September and man-made carbon emissions. They calculated that for every emitted ton of CO2, the artic summer ice New territory in Iraq shrinks by three square meters. According to the German Federal Other projects also made significant advancements. Overall in Ministry for the Environment, the average German carbon footprint 2017, we distributed thousands of new efficient stoves and equals approximately 12 tons of carbon-equivalents per capita per year; biogas plants and even equipped a refugee camp in northern this represents a loss of 36 square meters of ice per person per year, Iraq with its own large solar power system, a first in the roughly the size of a one-person flat. We produced our own video on the country. This project was also a first for us: for the very first subject, with the friendly support of Dirk Notz – have a look! It is on our time atmosfair carried full responsibility in planning, facebook page and is our most shared post. developing and constructing a photovoltaic system equipped with a battery storage and a distribution system that is able to A new focus on education supply energy to around 10,000 people. We carried out the Climate change and carbon emissions be damned; you can’t see it, you complete construction works, for which we provided the can’t smell it, there is simply no trace of it in our daily lives, and anyone necessary training to the camp inhabitants. The project even trying to raise awareness is immediately accused of being a moralizer and sparked the interest of the German Federal Foreign Office, as a spoilsport. And who wants to be a killjoy! But to try and raise awareness the relationship between refugees and climate change, nonetheless, atmosfair has launched a climate education program at employment and knowledge transfer gain political German schools in 2017. Together with teachers and pupils we have significance every day. developed different teaching units based around the children’s daily lives. And last but not least: 2017 marks the most successful year They are fun, encourage critical thinking, foster a wider understanding of for atmosfair, as our revenue exceeded 7 million Euros. the world and raise the question of individual action. Thank you for your trust! Dr. Dietrich Brockhagen, Founder & CEO atmosfair gGmbH From donation to project Honoring our commitments Since 2005, voluntary contributions have allowed atmosfair to operate and finance climate change mitigation projects all around the globe. Step one is the outlining and signing of a support agreement between atmosfair and the project operator, stipulating the project’s yearly targets in carbon reduction and defining the support provided by atmosfair. Up to two years can elapse before a donation actually offsets the equivalent amount of carbon emissions – time during which the project is planned and implemented. Lastly, accredited UN-auditors verify and certify the carbon savings and until today, atmosfair has never failed to honor its commitments. All donations have offset the exact amount of carbon emissions that were agreed upon.