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Africa gets lion’s share of 13 climate contribution projects of 2024 Paris Games
Africa has got the lion’s share of climate contribution projects of the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games as seven out of 13 projects are implemented in Africa.
The seven projects in Africa are implemented in Senegal, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Two projects are implemented in Senegal; Sakal Solar Farm and Mangroves Restoration Project. Two others are carried out in Kenya; the Kenyan Cookstove Project and The Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project (CHRP).
Two clean cookstove projects are implemented in DRC and Nigeria, while Nyaga Clean Water project is carried out in Rwanda.
Senegal projects:
In Senegal, Sakal Solar Farm involves the construction and operation of a solar photovoltaic plant of 20.229 MW in Baralé Ndiaye, department and region of Louga. The solar power plant covers an area of 40 hectares, and is equipped with 62,100 modules of 315-335 W each, exporting power to the national grid. The project activity is the installation of a new grid-connected renewable power plant (Greenfield). The baseline scenario is that “electricity delivered to the grid by the project activity would have otherwise been generated by the operation of grid-connected power plants that are fossil fuel fired power plants. The baseline scenario is the same as the scenario existing prior to the implementation of the project activity. “
Senegal’s Mangroves Restoration Project is meant to reduce poverty of the local communities through employment creation in the short-term and through the improvement of sustainable collection of mangrove products in the mid-term. Several activities will take place to improve the knowledge of local communities in environment conservation, mangrove restoration and management. The project proponent of this grouped project is an international private fund “Livelihoods Fund”, co-managed by private companies (Danone, Crédit Agricole, CDC Climat, Schneider Electric, Groupe La Poste, Hermès, Voyageurs du Monde, Firmenich and SAP).
Kenya Projects:
The Kenyan Cookstove Project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from home cooking, while improving household health and incomes. Improved stoves under the project are made in Nairobi and are twice efficient as traditional models. Thanks to the reduction in fuel consumption, the project has save 3.3 Mt of wood and preserved forest ecosystems in a country where forest cover is only 3%. The project has also created 500 jobs and trained 275 people and strengthening local skills.
Another venture in Kenya is the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project (CHRP). It is a multi-partner initiative designed to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation, restore biodiversity and create alternative livelihoods under the UN scheme of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). It is located in the Tsavo-Amboseli ecosystem, southeastern Kenya and stretches over an area of 410,533.84 ha. Its main geographic feature is the volcanic Chyulu Hills mountain range, from which the project derives its name. This project presents a broad ecosystem approach, including REDD+, to provide long-term sustainable financing and management to maintain the ecological integrity of an iconic African landscape. The project will help to protect a very high value wildlife and biodiversity area while supporting the development needs of indigenous and other local communities.
Eastern DRC Project:
The Eastern DRC Cookstove Project aims to provide individuals with intermediate improved cookstove (ICS). The stoves will be commercialized into the community via the local church communities that function in the various locations. The ICS distributed through this project will encourage households to replace the prevailing inefficient three-stone fireplace or traditional cookstoves that are predominantly used across the region. The ICS provides for an efficient use of the thermal energy generated though the combustion of biomass while cooking and there is a more efficient transfer of this thermal energy to the cooking pot. There is thus a resultant reduction in both biomass consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The biomass traditionally utilized is a mixture of non-renewable biomass from natural woodlands, charcoal produced locally and sold via an informal network of sellers and to a lesser extent some renewable biomass from wood grown for fuel.
Nigerian Cookstove Project:
The improved cookstove project in Nigeria aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the health and incomes of urban and peri-urban households by reducing fuel consumption and health risks caused by combustion fumes. Currently, 70% of Nigeria’s population depends on biomass for cooking, contributing to massive deforestation in a country that has lost 11% of its forest cover in 20 years. The project created 304 jobs, including 153 for women, and trained 93 people, building local skills.
Rwanda’s Nyaga Clean Water Project:
The project aims to identify and renovate broken boreholes, as well as build new ones in order to improve supply of drinking water in Rwanda. It meets a vital need insofar as access to water is limited for much of the rural population, only 57% of which can obtain drinking water within 30 minutes of their home.
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