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VEDA Climate Change Solutions Ltd

CDM/VCM  Awareness Workshops

To build the capacity of rural communities  in general and farmers in particular to understand  and appreciate the impact of climate change on their lives and also to make them aware of the new opportunities in carbon finance business,  VEDA organized many Workshops   in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.   More than 6000 resource poor farmers enthusiastically participated in these workshops and expressed their willingness to be part of  programmes and projects formulated to benefit from carbon trading. 

It also organised seminars and brainstorming sessions  to improve the awareness of  government and non governmental organizations.    

National Workshop

VCCSL organized a National Workshop on  “Exploring Opportunities for  Creating Carbon Revenues in Rural and Allied Sectors” at MANAGE, RajendranagaHyderabad on 11-8-2007 with the aim to identify opportunities  for generating additional income for  rural communities through CDM  and other Carbon Markets.

The Workshop was inaugurated by the Director General, National Institute for Rural Development, Hyderabad and attended by more than 30 senior scientists, administrators and NGO partners representing various institutions / NGOs such ICRISAT, NAARM, NABARD, NAIP, NIRD,NDRI, WASSAN, CSA involved in agricultural and rural development sectors from all over the country.

The objectives of the workshop

• Identification of pilot CDM projects for all types of agricultural and allied activities
• Developing methodologies suitable to Indian context
• Identification of funding sources for development and   implementation of these projects
• To build the capacity of the nation by developing talented man power pool in this sector 

Based on the recommendation of the National Workshop,  apart from Afforestation/Reforestation sector,  following pilots are identified for creating critical mass of CDM projects for rural and allied sectors:

• Reduction of methane in ruminant animals
• Collection of methane from poultry waste
• Getting CDM revenue to the farmers from Jatropha and other bio-fuel tress such as Pongamia and Neem (as against CDM revenue going to the processors of bio-fuel who may or may not pass on to the farmers)
• Soil carbon  improvement through Zero tillage farming, Organic farming etc
• Less water intensive cultivation of paddy
• Watershed catchment area protection: Plantation activity in catchment area of watershed and developing carbon revenues for their maintenance(16 districts of AP where WASAAN has an ongoing watershed programme can be considered initially)
• A CDM project for fodder development on  grass lands (reclamation or development)
• NPM and IPM
• Initiatives for maintaining soil fertility
• Oil palm (For the Fruit Bunch and for the waste produced during the extraction of oil)
• CDM project can be developed for the biogas produced from animal waste
• Lac cultivation, meat waste from slaughter house, waste from marine animal cultivation may  be  eligible for CDM pilots.