BR Lages Woodwaste Cogeneration

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The Lages Wood Waste Cogeneration Project for Brazil aims to reduce emissions by generating energy from renewable sources. It also supports the development of an international market mechanism for emissions reduction under the framework of the Kyoto Protocol. The project produces reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 1) substituting electricity by thermal plants with electricity from renewable sources, using wood waste from existing wood processing units and other wood residues from legal sources in the State of Santa Catarina; and 2) avoiding methane emissions from wood waste piles, currently landfilled in most cases in an environmentally harmful manner (open air burning of wood waste is banned by law).