Energy Globe Awards
ID’s Biogas project in Yunnan, China, receives an Energy Globe
Award for China
Initiative Développement, one of the
Trafigura Foundation long-time partners, has been awarded an Energy
Globe Award for 2011. Created in 1999 in Austria, the Energy Globe
Awards come as an international recognition to projects which aim
at a better conservation and protection of our planet’s resources,
or which promote the use of renewable energy. The Energy Globes are
awarded annually in the realm of a gala which is being broadcasted
worldwide. This year, the ceremony took place last in Wels,
Austria. (More info about the Energy Globe Awards on http://www.energyglobe.com/)
Initiative
Développement, a French-based NGO, has received this
prestigious award in the category “National Awards” for China, for
their Biogas project in Yunnan Province. Through the construction
of biogas tanks, this project combines under a Carbon Finance
Scheme the improvement of the local below-poverty-line rural
communities’ living conditions with the protection of the
environment and the fight against deforestation. http://www.id-ong.org/cn/
As the main financial partner since 2008, the
Trafigura Foundation is particularly proud of having been the
enabler of this highly innovative endeavour and it is of course a
great satisfaction for us to see Initiative Développement
distinguished with an Energy Globe National Award. Our warmest
congratulations go to them, for this recognition of course but
first and foremost for the outstanding achievements and impact the
Biogas project brings to the local communities in Yunnan.