Voluntary Carbon Credit Schemes- viable electricity solution for 6.1m people in Andean zone
The Rexel Foundation and Microsol partnered on a year-long study into the feasibility of using voluntary carbon credit schemes to give disadvantaged populations in the Andean zone of Latin America, access to a sustainable and clean source of electricity.
The focus of the study*, which was conducted from June 2013 to May 2014 across five Andean countries (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile), was two-fold: first, to understand how access for disadvantaged people to energy using renewable energy equipment could be improved using a voluntary carbon credit scheme, and second, to assess the viability of using a carbon credit scheme to accelerate deployment of energy efficient lighting.