atmosfair:

setting standards for

voluntary carbon offset

Sabine Minninger, atmosfair

Content

I Air traffic and climate change

II Carbon offsetting with atmosfair

III atmosfair‘s projects

IV Opinion of customers

Warum ist Fliegen so klimaschädlich?

• Long distances > much fuel consumed

Frankfurt – Los Angeles - Frankfurt:

~750l kerosene/passenger

• High impact of GHG in travel height

Burning 1l kerosene in height of 10km

is like burning 3l on the ground

Why does air travel

damage climate so much?

• Mobility of Germans: Air traffic equals impact of all car driving

• Contribution of air traffic to global warming: 4 - 9%

BUT: 90% of the world‘s population hardly ever flies

80% of all flights are for tourism

• Since 1970: Air traffic increased 500%, keeps growing

>> Tourism is a mayor problem

However, political measures hardly exist

atmosfair

• Born from NGO Germanwatch and eco-travel

association „forum anders reisen“

• since May 2005: non profit company

• patron: Klaus Töpfer, former executive director

of UNEP

• Idea: Flight emissions (impact on climate) are

reduced elsewhere by offset projects

atmosfair: clients and official partners

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• scientific (DLR, QinetiQ, MPI, IPCC ...)

• independent

• differentiated

• transparent & documented

•approved by German Federal Environment Agency

� Accurate

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Cost

• inside EU: 10-20 EUR

• overseas: 40 – 150 EUR

Online-Booking via travel agents

• At least 80% of funds into projects

• Message: „If I fly, I do it atmosfair.“

• Promotion of flight avoidance (Video conferences, „Holidays in touch with the earth“…)

• Only CDM Gold Standard projects: Resulting CERs areretired from the market on atmosfair‘s account at theofficial German registry

Many providers of „carbon neutrality“ do marketing ratherthan climate protection

atmosfair standards

atmosfair: award winning

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1. Official Kyoto process leads to Certified Emission Reductions (CERs)

2. Independent and liable, UN-accredited revisors

3. Only renewable energy and energy efficiency projects

4. Additionality strictly assessed (Projects are NOT bussines as usual)

5. Contribution to local wellfare and sustainable development (jobs for

locales, local environment, capacity building…)

CDM Gold Standard:

Project India: Solar cooking

Partners:

Gadhia Solar (Indian Solar-Company, GTZ)

Beneficiaries:

18 kitchens of hospitals, schools and religous centers

Technology:

Solar steam cooking devices with steam storage

CO2-Reduction:

500 tCO2/a by avoiding diesel

Local benefits:

Improved air quality, lower dependence from diesel

Since August 2006 officially registered at UNFCCC

Partners:

GTZ, Chumporn Palm Oil Industry (CPI)

Beneficiaries:

Palm oil factory and nearby farmers

Technology:

Biogas from sewage water, avoidance of methane and replacement of fossil fuels

CO2-Reduktion:

20.000t CO2/a

Local benefits:

Clean water, reduction of bad smell. NO rain forest put at risk!

Current state:

Project is running, but formal approval of Thai government still missing (political crisis)

Project Thailand: Biogas from sewage water

Partner:

BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association)

Beneficiaries:

Peasants in about 100 chinese villages

Technology:

Hydraulic rams replace diesel pumps

Local benefits:

Improved yields, lower dependence from diesel

CO2-Reduction:

about 2000tCO2/a

In preparation:

Irrigation in rural China

Partner:

Mongolian NGO, DED

Beneficiaries:

Inhabitants of 3000 small houses in Ulaanbataar

Technology:

Insulation with simple, locally available materials

Local benefits:

Better living conditions, coal saving

CO2-Reduction:

15.000 tCO2/a by saving coal

Planned in Mongolia:

Home insulation for the poor

What do clients think?

Thank you!

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