Climate Driven Projects - Contribute through Tapio

Contribution Projects

Internal expertise and technology combined with help from our partners allows us to offer the highest quality regarding carbon sequestration projects. We also select projects that have co-benefits on their local community and environment.

Changbin and Taichung Wind

This project harnesses the strong prevailing winds along Taiwan’s west coast. The wind farms consist of 62 wind turbines that generate over 480,000 MWh of clean power on average each year, which is supplied to the local electricity grid.

Taiwan

Wind Onshore

Efficient Cookstoves

The replacement fuel-efficient stove will lead to a significant reduction in the annual usage of biomass for users. The improved stove has been designed to balance efficiency, safety, cost, stability and strength with a focus on using locally available materials.

Rwanda

Efficient cookstoves

Xenamnoy Clean Hydropower

This project capitalises on Laos’ enormous hydropower potential to supply the surrounding region, and particularly the rural communities, with a sustainable source of clean energy. This run-of-the-river hydropower station harnesses flowing water to provide enough clean electricity for the needs of over 110,000 people in Laos each year!

Laos

Hydro

Clean Cookstoves for the Mamize Nature Reserve with WWF

The project is distributing 400 affordable fire-saving cookstoves to rural families living around the Mamize Nature Reserve in southwestern China. The cookstoves are reducing the amount of wood-fuel needed and smoke produced when cooking by adding an additional chimney and proper air supply system, which enables the fuel to fully burn and extracts the smoke out the room. The project was designed following stakeholder consultations with the local community to ensure their needs were met.

China

Efficient cookstoves

Huoshui Small Hydropower

Huóshuĭ Small Hydropower consists of 88 small hydropower plants. The small-scale plants range in capacity from 0.1 to 14 MW, and together supply enough renewable energy to power over half a million average Chinese homes each year. Their run-of-river design allows them to do so with minimal environmental impact. The cost of developing hydropower plants in remote locations is a significant barrier to construction, so this project would not be possible without the revenue generated by carbon credits.

China

Hydro

Everbright Landfill Gas Recovery

To keep methane from damaging our climate and to make use of its potential as a sustainable energy source, this project has set up a landfill gas collection system to manage both solid waste disposal and local energy supply in a sustainable way. The landfill is covered, and via wells and pipes the captured methane is then fed into gas processing systems and finally burnt in four incineration units, each with an installed capacity of 1.25 MW. In the end, the generated electricity is fed into the grid to supply the inhabitants of Suzhou with clean, non-fossil energy.

China

Landfill gas (LFG)

Farm “Het Mosterdzaadje”

The project aims to support local farmer Tuur in Belgium to create healthy soils, a healthy environment, and economically resilient farm. Farmer Tuur is focused on creating diverse, healthy and local food for the local consumer. It is a kind of living laboratory where regenerative agriculture is successfully experimented with. He actively receives other micro-farmers for permaculture-vegetable horticulture and small-scale livestock farming, where he aims to show that agroecological agriculture is possible, desirable and profitable on a large scale and implement and encourages other farms to follow this model or parts of this resilient ecological model. He recently purchased land from conventional agriculture that he wants to transform into an agroecological short chain project. With your financial support, farmer Tuur can increase and accelerate his actions to transform his land and improve his soil, and development of local supply chains of the high-quality products With these measures, farmer Tuur can take the next steps in his journey towards regenerative nature-positive farming. It is estimated that a project can capture carbon in the soil by on average 2 tons/hectare (yearly) and it can create many more positive effects on biodiversity, water and its local community. This project is proposed by Farming for climate, a Belgian non-profit organization founded in 2019 with its mission to accelerate regenerative farming in Belgium by supporting farmers in their transition from conventional farming practices. With the financial help of you as a company, Farming for Climate can support this local farm throughout the first 3 years, with a yearly on-site follow-up by Farming for climate of the concrete measures agreed with the farmer.

Belgium

Regenerative farming

Prony Wind Power

This project involves six wind farms located in two different sites, Kafeate and Prony, on the island of New Caledonia. The sites were installed by the company Aerowatt and consist of 116 wind turbines providing a total capacity of 31 MW with an estimated yearly production of 40 GWh of electricity which is then exported to the New Caledonian grid. The project, therefore, replaces grid electricity that is 80% produced by fossil-fuel power plants.

New Caledonia

Wind Onshore

Musi River Hydro

This grid-connected, run-of-river hydroelectricity plant is built on the upper banks of the Musi River near Sumatra’s port city of Bengkulu. By harnessing the kinetic energy of powerful running water, the Musi River Hydro plant has a total-installed capacity of 210 MW and delivers over 765,000 MWh to Sumatra’s grid every year – that’s enough to meet the demands of over 700,000 Indonesians on average each year!

Indonesia

Hydro

Antai Waste-to-Energy

This project aims to address some of the environmental issues that Shanxi province is facing by capturing large quantities of waste gas produced by blast furnaces at a local steel mill and converting it into green electricity, which is then recycled for use at the plant. The project improves local air quality by avoiding uncontrolled gas emissions, and a modernised water cooling system considerably reduces the water consumption of the plant.

China

Waste gas recovery

Kornburi Wastewater Treatment

The existing process has been modified into a closed loop system that captures the methane emissions and uses them to generate heat and electricity for the factory. The project not only reduces GHG emissions by avoiding the release of methane into the atmosphere, but also by reducing fossil fuel consumption.

Thailand

Biogas recovery/Wastewater treatment/Sludge treatment

Crow Lake Wind

Spanning 36,000 acres in South Dakota, this wind power project is a product of innovative community collaboration between 3 parties. In total the wind farm comprises 108 turbines: Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC) owns 100; a group of south Dakotans, South Dakotan Wind Partners own 7; and 1 is owned by Mitchell Technical Institute (MTI). The Crow Lake Wind project harnesses the wind to power homes with clean electricity, displacing energy generated from fossil fuels. The total installed capacity of the project is around 162MW, 1 MW serves around 800 homes, so at full capacity, 129,000 homes can be served!

United States

Wind Onshore

Aura Solar Power

Located on a 100-hectare site in La Paz, the capital city of Baja California Sur, Aura Solar is one of the largest photovoltaic energy projects in Latin America and a key driving force in Mexico’s clean energy revolution. It is part of the wider initiative “Iniciativa Aura Solar”, which aims to develop successful large-scale photovoltaic projects that can capitalise on Mexico’s high solar potential. By harnessing the power of Mexico's sun, the project is expected to produce enough energy to fulfil the needs of 164 thousand people, which represents 64% of La Paz’s population.

Mexico

Solar

Za Hung Hydropower

The Za Hung Hydropower Plant has two turbines with a total installed capacity of 30 MW and an annual output of over 120,000 MWh. The plant provides clean electricity to about 19,870 homes and helps the country to meet its growing energy demands. By offsetting the grid with clean electricity, the use of coal-fuel is reduced and as a result, less greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere.

Vietnam

Hydro

Afognak Island Forest Preservation

On North Afognak Island, 40 miles from Kodiak City, the Afognak Forest Carbon project area comprises 8,219 acres of low elevation, coastal temperate rainforests. The project prevents carbon emissions by protecting these forests from logging in the baseline scenario. From 2005-2009 the American Land Conservancy (ALC) and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) acquired the project properties previously managed for timber production for conservation in perpetuity. 15% of productive land in the area, subjected to clear-cut logging since the 1980s, had been left to regenerate naturally, with little success. The remaining unlogged areas remain covered by native, old-growth 200-year-old Sitka Spruce forests, lakes, wetlands and small streams.

United States

REDD+

EcoAustralia

Our unique EcoAustralia product provides the opportunity to support the regeneration and preservation of Australia’s biodiversity and measurably address global climate change, at the same time. Each EcoAustralia credit consists of one Australian Biodiversity Unit, equal to 1.5m2 of government-accredited, permanently protected Australian vegetation, bundled with 1 tonne of avoided greenhouse gas emissions from a Gold Standard certified project. The Australia Biodiversity Unit supports the Mount Sandy Conservation project, which is located on South Australia’s Limestone Coast. The project covers the traditional lands of the Ngarrindjeri people, Traditional Custodians of the Coorong – and is a rare pocket of intact native vegetation in the region. The project brings together indigenous and non-indigenous communities of Australia by promoting traditional land management for biodiversity conservation.

Australia

RE + Australian Biodiversity Unit (ABU)

Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve

The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve protects 91,215 hectares of rich, tropical peat swamp forests which are monitored by local rangers as well as by satellite and aerial imagery. The reserve is adjacent to the world-renowned Tanjung Puting National Park and forms a physical buffer zone along the parks eastern border. As well as preserving ecosystem diversity and the habitat of endangered species like the Bornean orangutan, the project reduces emissions by avoiding the planned deforestation of over 47,000 hectares of forests for palm oil production.

Indonesia

REDD+

Linshu Wastewater to Energy

By capturing gas from wastewater lagoons and converting it into electricity, the Linshu project, located in the Eastern Shandong Province of China, reduces business-as-usual emissions from entering the environment by converting it into renewable electricity. This electricity is then fed back into the industrial plant for energy thus displacing energy that was previously acquired from fossil fuel sources.

China

Biogas recovery/Wastewater treatment/Sludge treatment

Safe Community Water Supply

This project restores and repairs existing boreholes to provide clean drinking water to Rwandan communities, removing the need to boil water for purification. Each borehole is up to 100 metres deep, and can be operated with a simple hand pump. The boreholes will be maintained over the project lifetime.

Rwanda

Safe water

Bac Lieu Wind Farm

The Bac Lieu wind farm involves 62 wind turbines installed in two phases, each with a capacity of 1.6 MW, resulting in a total installed capacity of 99.2 MW. The project generates approximately 327,826 MWh of clean electricity on average annually, which is fed into the national grid. It contributes to bridging the supply-demand electricity gap, and is an important investment for Vietnams renewable energy supply strategy.

Vietnam

Wind Onshore