Here's a novel idea to fund a safe drinking water project. The maker of the LifeStraw Family water filter is using carbon credits to delivery 900,000 water filters to poor Kenyans.
With or without carbon credits, poor African need safe drinking water.
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The purchase and sale of carbon credits are relatively new concepts in Africa, accounting for less than three percent of the $144 billion global carbon credit trade. The system is designed to reduce carbon emissions worldwide by allowing projects that that produce low carbon emissions to sell credits to projects that want to reduce their carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. The carbon trade is starting to pick up in African countries such as Kenya, where a Swiss company is one of many participants.
Something new in western Kenya homesteads: a LifeStraw Family water filter, produced by the Swiss health-products company Vestergaard Frandsen.
Community workers are distributing them for free to 900,000 households.
Through its safe drinking water project, the company aims to turn a profit by selling carbon credits in the $144 billion global carbon market.
