Fair Climate Network

Fair Climate Network is an open and welcoming Network with current membership base of scientists, environmentalists, feminists and 42 grassroots NGOs from all over India, have got together to form the Fair Climate Network. Our purpose is to facilitate and capacitate grassroots bodies to develop pro-poor CDM Projects and tap carbon resources for the sustainable development of the poorest of the poor. In a span of just 2 years, 14 CDM Projects are in the pipeline, some at a very advanced stage of development: # A Photovoltaic CDM to provide 300,000 lamps to 60,000 Dalit families has already been registered (Dalit REDS, Tumkur) # A 5,000 Biogas CDM is under validation (SEDS, Penukonda) # Another 10,000 Biogas CDM is being prepared in Andhra Pradesh (AF, Anantapur), and yet another in Tamil Nadu (Trust Help) # 2 more PDDs which includes Solar Photovoltaic & Improved Cookstoves CDM Projects are under preparation (THREAD, Orissa) # 7 PDDs are being prepared to install 450,000 Fuel Efficient Woodstoves in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan (Dalit REDS, Samuha, JSMBT, Gram and LMACS, Trust Help and Seva Mandir)