Biogas Replacement of Fuelwood: Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change
This brief examines the potential for financing a switch from wood and other solid fuels to biogas using a carbon offset market
Abstract
The research reported in this brief examines the potential for financing a switch from wood and other solid fuels to biogas using a carbon offset market. We use a nationally representative survey of households in Nepal from 2011-2011 (the third round of the National Living Standards Survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics) to estimate the reduction in firewood use that can be expected when a household acquires a biogas plant. We then use recent estimates of the 鈥淕lobal Warming Potentials鈥� of emissions from traditional wood stoves to calculate the size of the subsidy to biogas plants that could be financed with carbon offsets at a conservative carbon price.
Citation
Somanathan, E.; Bluffstone, R.; Toman, M. Biogas Replacement of Fuelwood: Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change. (2014) 4 pp.