Carbon neutrality & vetiver

Earthizenz Eco Friendly Systems

REDUCING THE FOOTPRINT & INCREASING THE
HANDPRINT
Through
Positive Interventions with The Vetiver System

Linkup with AR Projects under CDM
M.P. Singh
B. Tech.(Civil); M.I.E. (Mech.)
email: mpsingh@earthizenz.org
earthizenz@gmail.com

Presentation at ICV-5, Oct 28-30, 2011


Presentation Sequence
 Defining Carbon Neutrality
 One slide on Kyoto Protocol
 One Slide on Significant Green House
Gases with linkage to Vetiver
 A brief on the Project being described wrt
resultant revegitation due to Vetiver.
 Back to Carbon with a link up with the
vetiver role.
 Other aspects of the project.


What is Carbon Neutrality?
Carbon Neutrality is achieved through Zero net
Emission of Green House Gases (GHG) by:
1) Reducing our Carbon Footprint or offsetting it
with positive action like Carbon Sequestering.
2) Investing in or buying Carbon Credits from some
other projects.
India is a Developing Country so the second option is
not needed.
Projects of Developing Countries can get funded via
Carbon Credits earned by our own positive
actions and bought by polluters of Developed
Countries.


What is Kyoto Protocol?

 Bindingemission targets for industrialised
countries (called Annex I Countries)

 Voluntary participation of developing
countries (called Non-Annex I countries,
e.g. India)


Relevant Green House Gases
Vetiver mitigates this by itself
 Carbon Dioxide and as an initiator of
Reforestation Projects
Global Warming Potential 1*
In a rural scenario, surplus leaves of vetivar
can be part of a mixed feedstock of
vegetable & leafy biomass waste, to
 Methane produce and capture methane
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Vetiver when used in a wastewater
treatment process possibly reduces this
 Nitrous Oxide emission both in the nitrification &
denitrification phase
310
* tCO e
2
*Times Carbon dioxide

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Bio Engineering
Through different apps of the
Vetiver System


Applications of VS used at
Anandpur Sahib
 Revegitation and Possible Reforestation

 Prevention of Soil Erosion and its migration

 Steep Filled up Slope Stabilization (Road
Batter)

 SiltControl in water body
(Planting in the Catchment Area)


Vetiver application for
Revegitation & Reforestation
at Anandpur Sahib, Punjab
(Hillock Slopes)

Before
&
After


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Road Batter


AFTER The hill with the
soil saver

Road Batter


BEFORE


AFTER


Local Species have
already started
coming.

AFTER

EarthizenzSpecies have Systems
Local Eco Friendly
already started AFTER
coming. Soon they
will take over and the
HERO would perish


AR Projects under CDM
 Vetiver is the only plant that can bring a totally
wasted land back to life.
 Lands like vacated mine fields.
 After bringing the land back to life, it allows
other local species to take over.
 Some other species can also be introduced to
fit the local definitions of forests, submitted to
the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change)
 Vetiver will ultimately perish under the shade of
the forest it has itself initiated.


Existing AR Methodologies
under CDM
 AR-ACM0001: Afforestation and Reforestation of
degraded land.
 AR-ACM0002: Afforestation or reforestation of
degraded land without displacement of pre-
project activities
 AR-AMS0005: Simplified baseline and monitoring
methodology for small-scale afforestation and
reforestation project activities under the clean
development mechanism implemented on lands
having low inherent potential to support living
biomass


Existing AR Methodologies
Cont’d
 AR-AM0002: Restoration of degraded
lands through afforestation/reforestation

 AR-AM0006: Afforestation/reforestation
with trees supported by shrubs on
degraded land


Action Reqd.
 We need to propose amended
methodologies to add Vetiver as the initiater
of the Reforestation process.

 Vetiversacrifices itself , without this
sacrifice, the AR project could not have
begun



Prevention of Soil Erosion & its

Migration

Before
&
After


BEFORE

SOIL ERODED FROM
THE CLIFFS SPREADS
ON THE ROADS


ZERO SOIL
MIGRATION DESPITE
RECORD RAIN


Steep Filled up Slope
Stabilisation
(Road Batter)
Before
&
After

AFTER

Vetiver has stabilized the
entire slope

AFTER

Earthizenz Eco Friendly Systems Vetiver has
retained moisture
AFTER within the slope
enabling other
vegetation to grow.


Silt Control in water body
(Planting in the Catchment
Area)
&
Silt Before
V/s
Silt After


Location ‘V’
Rain Cuts & Gullies

Water Body
Location ‘V’
(Behind Drop off)

Area Z
Gully/ Rain Cut


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1 or 2layers of Soil
bags + soil from
reshaped sides

Avge. length of re
shaped channel 25m

Avge. widened width
of re shaped channel
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slopes.
Total rows per raincut ( average) =5+5=10
Total length of rows/raincut = 10X25=250m

Total length/ raincut in
addition to the rows
running across hill=
250+50= 300mtrs

Vetiver rows running
Assume 5 additional rows at the bottom of the
across hill, already
cannel, total lenfth=5X10=50m/ raincut
accounted for

SILT IN OCT 2009

Earthizenz Eco Friendly Systems Polythene liner is
Visible

SILT IN 2010

Catchment Area
Protected with
Vetiver

Earthizenz Eco Friendly Systems Polythene liner is
Visible
SILT In 2010

First Cell:
Zero Silt
SILT IN 2010


Our Intervention: Clumps of Vetver strategically Planted in the rain
to Prevent Silt Carried by the same rain to the Water Body.


Location ‘V’
(Behind Drop off)

Part of Catchment area (Z)


The Silt was reduced by 99% at the end of the same monsoon as
planting


Rows of vetiver @
7plants/m, rows at
1m spacing
quantity as per
measurement at
site

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2 Rows of Vetiver Mother
Plants (Clumps) , 10 m
apart, @ 3 clumps/M, in
basin. Each Clump would
have

Rows of vetiver @
Vetiver Mother Plant Clumps 7plants/m, rows at
containing average of 100 1m spacing
tillers each approx. 0.3m width
with 0.20 clear gap between
clumps. Distance between
rows= 2m


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