Cut less firewood to keep larger forest
Reduced carbon emissions for cleaner sky
Improved cooking methods to save panda forest
WHY IMPLEMENT
ENERGY-EFFICIENT
STOVE PROJECT IN
LEIBO COUNTY OF
SICHUAN PROVINCE?
Leibo County lies in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province.
According to the 3rd National Survey on Giant Panda from 1998 to 2002, there
are about 8200 hectares of giant panda habitat in the county and 6 wild giant
pandas living in. The Mamize Nature Reserve, located in Leibo County, is the
extreme south region of the wild giant panda habitat. Last century, the massive
wood cutting have greatly reduced the forest coverage in towns surrounding the
nature reserve, such as Gudui, Lami, Changhe and Shanlinggang, which greatly
threats the survival and reproduction of the wild giant panda. Moreover, the
residents in these towns and townships are mostly Yi people, who have been
cooking food with the “three-feet stove” that consumes lots of firewood and
leads to great destruction of the forest resources and giant panda habitat.
The 2010 baseline survey
showed in average,
each household in this
region consumes around
30 tons of firewood,
equals to 0.37 hectare of
forests and releases 21.6
tons of CO2 per year.
The implementation
of energy-efficient
Stoves Project, the local
consumption of firewood
and CO2 emission will be
reduced to the benefit of
forest resource and giant
panda habitat protection.
WHAT IS STATUS
OF THE ENERGYEFFICIENT STOVE
PROJECT?
THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE ENERGYEFFICIENT STOVE
The project was officially launched in October 2010. By the end of 2011, 500
stoves have been built in Gudui Town, Changhe Town and Lami Town, and the
stoves are very welcomed and
popular among local farmers.
In 2012, another 1100 stoves
will be built in Leibo County
and will be registered as a
voluntary Gold Standard
carbon credit Project by the
end of the year. Starting from
2013, the project will conduct
carbon emission reduction
monitoring and generated
carbon emission reductions.
The whole project’s carbon
trading period is 10 years.
1 stove per year
1,600 stoves per year
Firewood saved (ton)
10.9
17440
174400
CO2 emission reduced (ton)
10.12
16192
161920
224
2240
Panda habitat protected (hectare) 0.14
10 years
When 1,600 stoves have all been put to use, there will be a great amount of carbon emission reduced every year to cope with
global climate change. At the same time, it also helps to reduce local water and soil erosion, improve local people’s income and
rural hygiene condition.
THE POTENTIAL
AREA FOR ENERGYEFFICIENT STOVE
PROJECTS
The wild giant pandas distribution covers 192 towns and townships in
Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces. Over 1 million people live here and
many of them are from different ethnic groups. The agricultural production
and living standard of the people in surrounding towns and townships of
the giant panda habitat are comparatively lagging behind. People are very
dependent on the forest resources. Especially, the use of firewood could be
great pressure to the giant panda and its habitat. Promote the use of energyefficient stove in these regions will largely reduce the firewood consumption
and carbon emissions, which in turn reduce the pressure on the forests,
where the giant pandas live.
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