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GERES Cambodia

Part of GERES (Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités), an independent, non-profit organization that has been promoting sustainable development for over 30 years worldwide by leading innovative development projects.

Since 1994, the core focus of GERES Cambodia is to turn the nation's main source of energy, wood, from informal and destructive practices to a socially relevant, clean, efficient and sustainable sector; starting from the supply side, down to end-user efficiency, industrial standards and energy policies. GERES Cambodia is also the cradle of GERES' pioneering work on Carbon Finance and Climate Change.

Indeed, in 2006, GERES Cambodia was the first project developer to bring a stove project (the New Lao Stove) to the carbon market with expected results to generate around 160,000 tons of offsets annually over a ten-year period (2003-2012). This program has reached on the 18th of March 2010 the amount of 1,000,000 cookstoves sold in Cambodia which is estimated to have saved 3 756 hectares of Forest since 2003.

The GERES Cambodia team is now made up of more than 70 highly committed & experienced specialists in the energy, environment, carbon, agronomy, research, rural development and education sectors.

More information on : http://www.geres-cambodia.org/