Keeling Curve

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Project Summary / Description:

Before creating D-Olivette, the co-founders worked as researchers trying to uncover the root-cause of wide spread poverty in rural Africa. Data showed that all rural communities share one similar root-cause problem responsible for over 60% of their poverty-index; this problem is called "Energy-poverty."
(i) According to FAO: Nigeria has the world largest secondary deforestation -- rural families alone cut down over 1 billion trees annually for energy. Over 80% of Nigerian forestry had been cut down, and
(ii) with the over 1,000% increase in price of Kerosene -- mostly used by rural communities, the Nigerian Ministry of Environment fears over 2 billion trees will be cut down in 2023.
(iii) According to WHO: The smoke generated from firewood stoves is 2nd highest killer in Nigeria causing deaths of over 100,000 rural women and children annually; it also contributes annually to the global carbon emission and likely to double in 2023.

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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses), Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption), Removes/stores GHGs (e.g., projects that capture, sequester, or otherwise enhance the "sinks" that accumulate and store GHGs)

Best Estimate of GHG Avoidance/Reduction of This Project (Tonnes CO2 Equivalent/Year):

Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

1. Reducing Carbon Footprint Inequality of Rural, Agrarian and Off-grid Communities: Increased the safety of 100% of our customers, by providing cleaner energy that does not emit Co2, and which cooks faster than LP Gas and 100% safe for daily usage.
2. There are over 20,000 customers daily using our innovation which provides them easy access to biogas which is 100% safely used for daily clean cooking. 
3. Our innovation has reached over 100,000 direct and indirect beneficiaries; providing them with access to biogas which is 100% safely used for daily clean cooking 
4. We have helped increase over 50% of our customers‚ incomes, our smallest product, the Kitchen Box provides benefits worth over $1,000 to the owner annually.
5. We have directly increased food security for small-farm-holders and commercial farmers using our products such as the Bio-tanks to turn organic waste into bioslurry* Bioslurry is the liquid discharged at the biodigester outlet after gas has been tapped for energy. This is ready-to-use organic fertilizer.
6. The GIZ, KIC ClimAccelerator & Stitching Corporation confirmed that in 2021, D-Olivette's innovation prevented the emission of 1,350 tons of Co2eq annually and created alternative clean energy, therefore ensuring over 100,000 trees were not cut down in 2021.
7. Creating gender-equality through empowerment of rural women and girls with technical capacity to tackle climate challenge through biogas-value-chain technologies, skills and jobs.
8. D-Olivette has since 2018 helped recycled over 48,000 metric tons of organic waste into renewable energy, clean water and organic fertilizer.

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Mission Statement:

D-Olivette produces domestic digester that make use of the manipulation of microorganisms for the production of clean fuel and organic fertilizer from biodegradable and organic waste. Our products are uniquely designed to accelerate the AD (anaerobic digestion) phases e.g. (i) hydrolysis (ii) acidification (iii) acetic acid production, and finally (iv) methanization. The biogas is stored in a removable and transportable ISO-certified gasholder and can be 100% safely burnt as cooking gas, or used to generate clean electricity while the byproduct is organic fertilizer, therefore making organic waste circular and eliminate its emission, while also obviating rural communities need for wood-fuel.
Our core products are:
(i) The Kitchen Box‚Ñ¢: used for indoor clean cooking only
(ii) The Bio-tanks‚Ñ¢: used for generating large capacity biogas for cooking, electricity & organic fertilizer
(iii) Detachable Biogas Bags
(iv) The 360¬∞ Digital Application (Beta)
(v) Accessories (e.g. biogas stoves, biogas-powered electrical engines, etc)