The FCN SA (Fair Climate Network Southern Africa) implements carbon projects for the sustainable development of poor communities. The network facilitates grassroots organisations to develop pro-poor fair climate projects.

The network is created to intensify and improve the services that are delivered to the poor. The focus is on climate change mitigation interventions, such as introducing energy efficiency and renewable energy techniques in households. Carbon credit finance can be mobilized for these pro-poor investments.

The network will meet regularly to identify and subsequently develop carbon projects.

The network consists of different organisations, such as grassroots and international NGOs, financial institutions, church organisations, climate specialist, and research and development institutes. Each organisation plays a vital role in the lifecycle of a carbon project.

Presentations workshop Malawi available - FCN SA and the Gold Standard Foundation organized a capacity building workshop in Malawi in April 2012. More than 30 local NGOs learned how to identify, register and implement projects to enter the carbon market. To contribute to sustainable development of local communities. The report of the workshop, as well as the slides of all presentations are now available in the download centre of this website.

Gold Standard (GS) projects of Nova

The Nova Institute aims to improve the quality of life of low-income households.

Nova developed a voluntary GS methodology for its Basa Magogo projects, introducing an alternative ignition technique for domestic coal fires.

The first GS projects are now registered, and several others have been listed in the GS registry.

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