In a report to Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department head Frederika Rentoy and Payatas Operations Group (POG) head Roberto M. Jaymalin said the technicians from the Pangea Green Energy could make the biogas plant operational.

Jaymalin said that the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has approved the registration of the Biogas Emission Reduction Project of the Quezon City government and Pangea as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activity.

Pangea is the city government’s partner in the implementation of the CDM project. Quezon City is the first local government unit with a CDM project.

In view of the approval and registration of the Payatas-CDM project, Pangea is now expected to remit to the Quezon City government the advance payment of 250,000 euros within 45 days in accordance with a memorandum of agreement signed by the two parties early last year, Jaymalin said.

The project involves extraction, collection and processing of biogas produced from the decomposition of solid waste in the controlled disposal facility.

Under the supervision of the POG, the project will run for 10 years.Methane from the collected biogas will be destroyed by converting it to fuel for generation of electricity and burning the rest in a high temperature enclosed flare.

This process will contribute to efforts in reducing global warming or the rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s nearsurface air and oceans which is expected to result in the rise of sea level and inundations.

As a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, the Philippines will benefit from the CDM system in which industrialized countries finance emission activities and receive carbon credits.