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Biogas: Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change

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dc.contributor.authorSomanathan, E.
dc.contributor.authorBluffstone, Randall
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-20T14:28:56Z
dc.date.available2015-07-20T14:28:56Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.description.abstractWith data from the nearly 6,000 households in the Nepal Living Standards Survey of 2010–11, this paper finds that the mean reduction in household firewood collection associated with use of a biogas plant for cooking is about 1,100 kilograms per year from a mean of about 2,400 kilograms per year. This estimate is derived by comparing only households with and without biogas in the same village, thus effectively removing the influence of many potential confounders. Further controls for important determinants of firewood collection, such as household size, per capita consumption expenditure, cattle ownership, and unemployment are used to identify the effect of biogas adoption on firewood collection. Bounds on omitted variable bias are derived with the proportional selection assumption. The central estimate is much smaller than those in the previous literature, but is still large enough for the cost of adopting biogas to be significantly reduced via carbon offsets at a modest carbon price of $10 per ton of CO2e when using central estimates of emission factors and global warming potentials of pollutants taken from the scientific literature.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24736644/biogas-clean-energy-access-low-cost-mitigation-climate-change
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7349
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/22230
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7349
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectfuelwood
dc.subjectbiogas
dc.subjectcarbon credits
dc.titleBiogasen
dc.title.subtitleClean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Changeen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaClimate Change
okr.crossref.titleBiogas: Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change
okr.date.disclosure2015-06-30
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-10T12:02:02.249057Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24736644/biogas-clean-energy-access-low-cost-mitigation-climate-change
okr.globalpracticeEnergy and Extractives
okr.guid743821467991024802
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-7349
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b082fab227_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum24736644
okr.identifier.reportWPS7349
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2015/06/30/090224b082fab227/1_0/Rendered/PDF/Biogas000clean0on0of0climate0change.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryNepal
okr.topicEnergy::Renewable Energy
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topicEnergy::Energy Production and Transportation
okr.topicEnergy::Energy and Environment
okr.topicEnvironment::Environmental Economics & Policies
okr.unitEnvironment and Energy Team, Development Research Group.
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