Precision Development (PxD)
Climate Transformation Fund • India
Optimizing fertilizer use with leaf color charts
This project promotes Leaf Color Charts (LCCs) among smallholder rice farmers in India to help farmers optimize nitrogen fertilizer use, thereby reducing their production costs and nitrous oxide emissions for the global community. PxD will collaborate with an implementation partner to distribute 10,000 LCCs with accompanying digital advisory services during this project. This project addresses the critical need for timely and customized fertilizer application to reduce GHG emissions, with the potential for continued scaling through government and other partners and significant long-term emissions reduction.
Decarbonisation
There is a need to support efforts that can reduce emissions. Change is not happening fast enough on its own. A high-impact way of accelerating emission reductions is by supporting effective organizations influencing decision-makers to implement more ambitious climate policies. Another way is to support innovation in new fossil-free energy solutions in cases where market forces are not providing the necessary funds.
Renewable energy
Projects that deploy renewable energy solutions, reduce emissions and tackle infrastructure barriers where economic profitability is not yet viable. Our priority is practical, scalable projects that demonstrate feasibility and pave the way for wider adoption of renewable technologies.
Decarbonisation
Namibia
PyroCCS pioneers sustainable industrial biochar carbon removal in the Global South, deploying its own low-cost, robust, pyrolysis systems powered by renewable energy and backed by a digital measurement and reporting solution. These plants efficiently convert invasive acacia bushes in Namibia, a significant threat to the savanna ecosystem, into high-quality biochar, while providing critical employment in regions with high youth unemployment rates. PyroCCS's scalable technology, which they are also offering as a solution to other project developers, not only captures carbon but also supports local agricultural and environmental recovery as well as food security.
Decarbonisation
South Africa
CHAI will work on the high impact project of transitioning a portfolio of hospitals in South Africa's Western Cape Province to renewable energy. This could be a high impact measure that is currently not occurring due to the limited capacity of the department of health and because of bureaucratic hurdles to innovative financial and energy contracts. The project has the potential to reduce emissions by hundreds of thousands of tons, and leverages CHAI's extensive experience in health sector procurement and innovative finance.
Decarbonisation
Tanzania
This project develops a mobile app for regreening techniques like Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). The app delivers real-time, location-specific advice directly to farmers' phones. This approach reduces intervention costs by eliminating the need for in-person visits to every location. We already support Justdiggit’s regular work since 2021, and now added this project because it builds on proven FMNR methods, increasing cost-efficiency and potential for rapid scaling in dry landscapes.