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go climate conscious ANNUAL REPORT 2016 PARTNERSHIPS AIR TRAVEL RESEARCH Clean water Climate policy in Breathing deeply in the for Egypt international air UN travel New "Sun Meets Was 2016 a turning Neue Ergebnisse der Water" technology point? Gesundheitsstudie zu Save80-Öfen The solar drinking water purification system for the town of El Kefah in Egypt went into operation in 2016 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 ffor 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 green energy Das kleine, von atmosfair Die Verwendung von Holz als Milchbauern erhalten Erneuerbare Energien sind in replaced by video can usuallyonly be reached by can reduce carbon emissions during Energieträger führt zu sauberes Biogas rund um die Deutschland weit verbreitet, conferences to a limited plane. The only climate-friendly production. But there are often mit dem natürlichen Gefälle Abholzung und Lungen- Uhr, wenn der Kuhdung in aber noch nicht in vielen extent which is why solution would be avoid flying residual greenhouse gases that und versorgt eine abgelegene erkrankungen durch Rauch.- kleinen Anlagen auf Ländern Asiens und Afrikas. travel is often altogether. It will still take cannot yet be prevented by Region mit Strom, Unsere Öfen sparen Bauernhöfen vergärt wird. atmosfair hilft bei der Planung unavoidable decades fofor technology to make technical solutions. 80 % Holz, Rauch und Geld atmosfair bezahlt den und Finanzierung. air-trave carbon-free. 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 Einsparung pro Solar Home System pro Konferenz und zurück, pro Passagier stove and year per system and year pro Jahr CO2 Eine Teilnahme Ein Flug von Düsseldorf Produktion und Standort Small hydro power Efficient Efficient Solar energy and an einer Konferenz nach Nepal eines Unternehmens plant in Honduras cookstoves instead cookstoves instead wind power The small hydro power plant of fireplaces of fireplaces Konferenzen können nur Weit entfernte Ziele sind meist In der Produktion kann CO2 durch financed The use of wood as an Small systems on farms Erneuerbare Energien sind in bedingt durch Videokonferenzen nur mit dem Flugzeug erreichbar. Energieezienz und grüne Energien by atmosfair works using a natural energy source leads to produce biogas from cow Deutschland weit verbreitet, incline and supplies electricity dung, giving dairy farmers ersetzt werden, weshalb häug Klimafreundlich wäre nur der gesenkt werden. Oft bleiben aber deforestation and lung aber noch nicht in vielen to a remote region that had suffered diseases caused by access to clean biogas Ländern Asiens und Afrikas. Reisen unabdingbar ist. Verzicht. Es wird noch Jahrzehnte Treibhausgase übrig, für deren from frequent power outages. smoke. Our stoves use around the clock. dauern, bis Technologien das Vermeidung es noch keine tech- 80% less wood, atmosfair makes a key atmosfair hilft bei der Planung financial contribution. Fliegen CO2-frei machen. nischen Lösungen gibt. produce less smoke and und Finanzierung. cost less for families. €€ €€ €€ € Contents 2 Offsetting How does atmosfair work? 5 Editorial 6 From donation to project Fullfilling our commitments 8 Efficient stoves Rwanda, India, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Lesotho 12 Biogas Kenia und Nepal 16 Renewable energy Ethiopia, India, Viet Nam, Honduras 20 Nachhaltiger Tourismus Nepal 22 Technology Egypt 23 Environmental education Climate change mitigation at school 24 ICAO Climate policy in air travel: Was 2016 a turning point? 26 Partnerships More transparency, Green Meetings und Airline Index 30 Financial report 34 References & partner 35 Press reviews 36 Team PUBLISHED BY atmosfair gGmbH, Dr. Dietrich Brockhagen EDITORIAL STAFF KlimaJournalisten-Büro Berlin TITLE Solar drinking water purification plant in Egypt, atmosfair gGmbH DESIGN Design Office: Adrien Tasic PRINT RUN 1,200 PRINTED BY Oktoberdruck AG EMAS-certified, 100 % recycled paper, Blue Angel-certified All figure and photos where no source is indicated come from atmosfair gGmbH Quelle: VisibleEarth NASA 4 atmosfair Annual Report 2016 Editorial atmosfair at "Woche der Umwelt" (Environment Week) in Bellevue Palace in June 2016 (from right to left: Julia Hoffmann Dear Readers, (Manager CDM projects), Joachim Gauck (President of the Federal Republic of Germany at the time) and his partner Daniela Schadt (journalist), Dr. Dietrich Brockhagen (CEO of atmosfair)) The scientific journal Nature recently published an article time. He fails to mention that China committed to lowering entitled "Three years to safeguard our climate". It is based carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 60% by 2030. on the simple computation that the world's atmosphere only has a remaining carbon credit of 600 gigatons Solar drinking water before global warming reaches the dangerous level of In collaboration with German Hospitality, formerly 2°C. But around 40 gigatons of carbon is currently Steigenberger Hotels, atmosfair has made the use of a new released every year around the world. In other words, if we kind of renewable energy a reality. The small town of El continue to do "business as usual", our climate budget Kefah in Egypt now has a drinking water purification will be used up in 15 years! If we want a real chance at system financed by the hotel group. It supplies the a climate-friendly future, we have to produce less and residents with clean drinking water produced with solar less carbon emissions rather than more and more no later and purification technology from Germany (page 22). than 2020. 3 more years. The situation is not made any easier by the Transparency when travelling fact that Donald Trump wants to pull the USA out of the Incidentally, atmosfair had published a climate budget as Paris Agreement. But even with Trump, things are not as early as 2010 that allows each person on Earth to emit an bad as they seem. Also under the Trump administration, average of 2.3 tons of carbon per year over the next few one coal-fired power station is closing after another decades - for all activities combined. With the new figures - due to competition. Even though Trump has been from Nature, this annual budget decreases to just under 2 bragging about the grand re-opening of a coal mine tons. A single medium-haul flight or driving every day can in Jennerstone, according to Germanwatch's quickly exhaust this budget. research, however, the company has said that only 70-100 jobs will be created. It is remarkable that one of the founding partners of atmosfair, forum anders reisen, the association for Activity in air travel sustainable tourism, regularly measures how much carbon 2020: the aviation industry will also usher in a new era this is released per passenger and how much is offset. More and year with the first phase of CORSIA, the climate more operators offset the carbon out of their own pockets. change mitigation scheme of the International Civil Petra Thomas, Managing Director of the forum, gave us an Aviation Organization (ICAO). When this phase interview, expressing everything from disillusionment to begins, airlines around the world will offset any annual enthusiasm (page 28). increase in total carbon emissions. Success after 20 years of stagnation in the industry? As is so often the case, the Thank you very much for your support, we will continue to glass is either half full or half empty - we analyze this (page use your donations to drive the global energy transition 24/25) and help people specifically in the global south gain access - and show the benefits of carbon offsetting. to clean energy. Time is running out! We never thought that a Chinese airline would be awarded the status of most efficient airline so quickly in the atmosfair Airline Index (page 29). But it is consistent with the big picture, and Trump is wrong: in the Rose Garden of the White House, he claimed that the USA could increase its Dr.