What sort of projects does PURE support?

• PURE recently announced its support for the World's first Gold Standard project to receive carbon credits from the UN. The Gold Standard is an international coalition of environmental organisations such as WWF and Greenpeace . The Malavalli project in India not only reduces carbon emissions by 20,000 tonnes per year (equivalent to taking 7,500 UK cars off the road) and provides clean, renewable electricity for around 10,000 people in 47 villages, it has also created around 650 new jobs and injected around $1 million per year into the rural economy.
• Another project supported by PURE is the BK Energia project which uses wood waste from sustainably managed forests in the Amazon as a fuel, replacing electricity from polluting diesel generators. The result of this is that renewable energy is generated for Itacoatiara – an area in the Amazon with a population of around 80,000. Emissions are reduced by around 165,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to the domestic energy emissions of a UK town of 60,000 people such as Scarborough. The project's other main benefit is the protection of an area of jungle around three times the size of Greater London.