Cameroon’s Wood-Energy NAMA Project Cameroon’s Wood-Energy NAMA Project KAGONBE Timothée Point Focal NAMA et GIEC Sous-Directeur de l’Encadrement et du partenariat Local Au Ministère de l’Environnnement, de la Protection de la Nature et du Développement Durable/MINEPDED Yaoundé-Cameroun

Background  The main sector targeted is the wood-energy sector: ensuring the transformation of Cameroon’s Wood-Energy actions to reduce emissions and improve livelihood. Close to 80% of Cameroonians rely on fuel wood for cooking and heating. In most of the mangrove areas, fish smoking accounts for about 40% of deforestation and land degradation, using open, energy wasting, expensive, time consuming and unhealthy fish smoking ovens, with additional emissions from fuel wood combustion. Addressing this sector in Cameroon’s NAMA is a sure means of contributing to mitigation actions at the national level.  Type of action: national action based on identified agro-ecological zones.  Technology : Low carbon technology, easily transferable :changing the cooking habit of at least 5% of Cameroonians from traditional fuel wood consumption to the use of wood energy-efficient stoves, avoided deforestation and reforestation.  Greenhouse gas covered by the action : CO 2  It is expected that by the end of the project, 9,928,000 t CO 2 will be permanently reduced.  The implementing agency is the Ministry of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development of Cameroon (MINEPDED). Key partners include the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), private partners like S2-services and national NGOs. Identified stakeholders include: The Government at the central and local level, Local Communities, Local NGOs and civil society organizations, Local Micro-finance institutions and other local private financial institutions.

Description of mitigation action (NAMA)  The main objective of the NAMA project is to promote wood-energy efficiency, energy co-generation and reforestation for livelihood improvement and inclusive entrepreneurship.  Its implementation will permit reduced GHG emissions by reducing 9,928,000 t CO 2 over five years.  By the end of the project, at least 5% of Cameroonians will be using energy-efficient stoves (1,000,000 households within the project’s lifespan).  Over 3000 fish smoking efficient ovens will be replaced in the Cameroon ‘s coastal areas.  Reforestation activities are planned for 200,000 ha (representing reduced emissions of 1,160,000 t CO 2 ) and avoided deforestation for 100,000 ha (representing reduced CO 2 emissions of approx. 2,900,000 t CO 2.  Measures proposed (restoration, energy-efficient stoves and improved ovens) will improve the living conditions of populations who will buy less wood, use less time for fish-smoking and cooking, be exposed to less health risk and simultaneously reduce pressure on forests and GHG emissions.  Involving local communities and encouraging local and national entrepreneurs to engage in emission- reduction wood-energy efficient actions, permits improved community livelihoods, ensuring sustainability and long term replication

Planned activities, estimated cost and funding sources Planned activities for the preparation of NAMA Estimated full cost (Euro) Funding sources (Euro) Domestic contribution International support Any others NSP Appraisal Technical component (TC) NSP Appraisal Financial component (FC) _ - Implementation of the NSP Technical component (TC) Implementation of the NSP Financial component (FC) Total

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Potential for transformational change  The main impact of the proposed NAMA is the transformation of Cameroon’s Wood-Energy actions to ensure reduced emissions and improved livelihood in target agro-ecological regions. Involving local communities and encouraging local and national entrepreneurs to engage in emission-reduction wood-energy efficient actions permits improved community livelihoods, ensuring sustainability and long term replication.  The project offers a unique opportunity for a transformational change in the wood- energy sector, offering a variety of co-benefits, changing the cooking habit of at least 5% of Cameroonians from traditional fuel wood consumption to the use of wood energy-efficient stoves.  To reduce emissions the project adopts an approach which combines reforestation, the use of low carbon emission wood-energy technology and the development of financial mechanisms to encourage entrepreneurship and improved livelihood., auto-generating 10 million Euros from the private sector investment.  The innovative action here with respect to Cameroon’s context is the involvement of the private sector and the important role they play to ensure arising local and national entrepreneurship and ownership by the communities.  Lessons from this implementation and results will be shared with other Congo Basin countries, which are almost all subject to similar pressure to forest resources.

Sustainable development benefits Environmental Benefits  Improved forest cover  Decreased deforestation and forest degradation  Decreased pressure on trees for fuel wood  Increased biodiversity and habitat restoration  Improved quality and quantity of water through degraded land restoration  Better air quality  Decreased pollution from the transformation of wood-waste  Restoration of degraded lands  Increase in quantity and availability of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) Economic benefits  Development of economic activities and business strategies  Creation of jobs  Increased incomes of the population  Encouraging entrepreneurship  Increase in the local and national economic trends Social benefits  Improved livelihoods  Improved living conditions  Improved standards of living – medium importance  Decrease smoke-related disease incidences  Improved health;

Relevancy of the proposed NAMA in the national policy context  Cameroon’s NAMA aims at the recovery and protection of forest through wood energy efficiency and reforestation. With this objective, the country has engaged in several actions, including the Green Sahel project which aims at reversing the trend of climate change effects in the Sudano-Sahelian agro-ecological region, by involving in massive reforestation ( plants over ha of land by the end of 2015), accompanied by massive production of energy efficient cook stoves.  The proposed NAMA project is a national initiative, being implemented in three out of Cameroon’s five agro-ecological regions, with an opportunity for replication of best practices in the remaining two regions, should funding be available. Due to its multi-stakeholder approach (government, international NGOs, local NGOs, private sectors, local communities) the NSP ensures ownership and provides a possibility for any of the stakeholders to replicate in different regions.  To support this overall NAMA, the proposed NAMA project will impulse the switch from deforestation and land degrading activities to land restoration (mainly reforestation) activities, providing energy-efficient actions. Its implementation will provide valuable data sources and success cases in target regions and enable the involvement of the private sector and local communities to ensure ownership and sustainability. 

Relevant contact details 1) Name: KAGONBE Timothée Organization : The Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development of Cameroon (MINEPDED)  Department of Development of environmental policies Postal address : P.O. Box 320 Phone : (+237) / Web page :