Beyond Carbon: MORE GREEN’s Mission for People and Planet
Boehringer Ingelheim works with ClimateSeed on decarbonization initiatives and to address unavoidable carbon emissions. Through these projects, we aim to also create economic, educational, and health benefits, in countries such as Malawi, Mozambique, China, and India. These projects also include environmental topics, such as forest protection, clean water, biodiversity, and clean energy.
To ensure the effectiveness and alignment of these projects with their sustainability goals, ClimateSeed conducts a thorough three-step due diligence process. This approach aims to ensure that all supported projects are consistent with Boehringer’s mission to create a more sustainable future for future generations.
MORE GREEN: Innovating for a Low-Carbon Future
Sustainable Community in Quebec, Canada
The Sustainable Community Project in Canada aggregates 80 members and more than 2,000 carbon reduction micro-projects in various sectors, including energy efficiency and waste management. The project's main objective is to bring together up to 10,000 customer facilities in a "sustainable community" to reduce GHG emissions from low emitters that account for nearly 70% of Quebec's GHGs, and for most of which reductions are unaffordable. Pioneering and innovative, this is the first project to develop a new world-class methodology (VM0018) that enables these micro-projects to benefit from the carbon credit mechanism.
Biogas Development in China
Located in one of the least developed areas of China, the project activities began in 2010 and aim to support up to one million low-income rural households in China’s Sichuan province with advanced biogas digesters and smoke-free biogas cookstoves. The project developer, along with its Chinese partners, decided to support smallholder farmer households in one of the poorest regions in China overcome poverty, while contributing to climate change mitigation.
Since its inception, the project has provided exactly 395,435 low-income rural households with proven and reliable biogas digesters and efficient biogas cook stoves to make people's lives better while helping to protect the earth's climate. The robust and reliable small-size biogas digesters avoid methane emissions from pig manure as well as carbon dioxide emissions from coal and firewood and provide the participating farmer families with clean, renewable, and free biogas to be used conveniently for cooking, heating, or lighting.
Sustainable Clean Water Supplies in Malawi
Despite the fact that Lake Malawi is one of Africa’s biggest waterways, many inhabitants of the southern African country do not have access to clean water. One in three households do not have a clean water supply, and only 26% have access to basic sanitation, such as pit latrines. Unsafe water and sanitation practices contributes to Malawi having one of the highest mortality rates in the world and is exemplified by their cholera outbreak, which annually infects around 50,000 and kills 2,000 people.
To tackle this, the project has installed and repaired more than 900 boreholes in the Dowa and Kaunga Districts to provide clean water to households so they no longer have to boil water to make it safe to drink. The project reduces the pressure on local forests and has reduced exposure to smoke inhaled when cooking over open fires.
We partner with ClimateSeed, to contribute to concrete qualitative and certified projects that help mitigate the environmental impact of our currently unavoidable emissions. These in turn also help protecting biodiversity and important ecosystem services. We take responsibility and are dedicated to reducing the carbon emissions across all our sites worldwide. We are very pleased with our collaboration with ClimateSeed and the premium quality of their projects.
Ingo Weiss
Head of Global Environment & Sustainable Management - Boehringer Ingelheim
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