China
Hebei Rural Renewable Energy Development Project
 Green Bond Criteria: Mitigation
                                                                  Country Challenge
                                                                  Every year China produces 840 million tons of livestock
 Purpose: To demonstrate sustainable biogas
 production and utilization to reduce environmental
                                                                  manure which is a key source of water pollution; in addition,
 pollution and supply clean energy.                               690 million tons of collectable crop residues are burned for
 Expected Results (include): By 2020:                             fuel or open fields which combined with coal burning used by
 • 42,000,000 cubic meter (m3) of biogas used by                  rural households for cooking and heating causing severe
   final users annually.                                          indoor and outdoor air pollution.
 • 58,780 tons of CO2 emissions reduced annually.
 • 96,100 rural resident households with access to                China’s central areas – the Hebei Province included – present
   biogas supply.
 • Additional biogas used as fuel for public
                                                                  very serious conditions.
   transportation.
 IBRD Financing: $71.5 Million                                    Project Goal
                                                                  The project supports the strengthening of China’s biogas
                                                                  program by building six state-of-the-art biogas facilities to
                                                                  serve as demonstration for efficiently convert agricultural
             Change picture – project is
                                                                  waste (manure and crop residues) into biogas. After
             biogas not wind
                                                                  supplying the biogas to rural households, the remaining
                                                                  biogas will be upgraded to vehicle quality and used for public
                                                                  transportation.




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