This project is still not yet open to compensation.
In order to provide you with full guarantees, we want to wait until the final approval of the PDD (Project design document) expected at the end of summer 2012. Then, we will be able to offer you prefinancing in anticipation of the future generation of carbon credits. For futher information, contact us :
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Morocco: a country on the way to desertification
Morocco has a very high energy dependency: 97% of its needs are imported. This results in intensive use of biomass, which is the primary energy resource of the country and the 2nd source of energy consumed (of which 89% is in rural areas).
Biomass energy represents 25% of the total national energy audit and demand is much greater than supply.
The lack of sustainable resource management policies contributes to the phenomenon of land degradation, which is disastrous for farming crops.
Supply in rural areas is characterized by harsh conditions and the time spent for collection; the free availability of the resource limits access to substitute sources of energy and illegal collection, where in fact biomass could be locally renewable.
In urban area, the resources used for growing fruit are not renewable, the value of the residual forests are not enhanced and wood sold by kg, often comes from other regions (transport costs)and through informal channels, and is full of water. This tense situation is reflected in the constant inflation in the price of wood.
Programs for saving fire wood
In the absence of technological advances to allow long term solutions to the problem, the project implemented by GERES is based on:
- Access to appropriate high performance equipment affordable for rural populations (at minimum cost using local know-how and materials).
- Ensuring they are used and the energy savings realized,
- making the population and local agencies aware of quality and energy control issues.
Consumption in urban areas : the role of hammams
The ovens of the medina and hammams consume nearly 4000 tons per/year (Hammams account for 80% of the consumption). In Morocco, the hammams are the 3rd cause of deforestation and the 4th source of CO2 in the country.
Traditional equipment consumes a lot and improvements can be made to reduce the consumption of biomass energy by hammams.
With its wealth of experience, GERES developed an improved boiler, reducing wood consumption by more than 60%.
It is the aim to distribute this equipment nationally through local production and distribution industries.
