noel kempff climate action project: project highlights and
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Noel Kempff Climate Action Project:
Project Highlights and Lessons Learned
Workshop on Incentives to Capture Climate Change and Biodiversity Benefits from Reducing Deforestation: Linkages, Synergies and Limitations
OECD, Headquarters
26Th March, 2008
Presentation Outline
1. Project Design
2. Generating Emission Reductions
3. Conclusions
1. Project Design
The Context
Located in the heart of South
America ...
… Bolivia is one of the most
biological diverse countries of the
world …… facing severe threats to its
ecosystems
The Challenge
… to allow animal migration
between wet and dry forest
Reducing slash and burn,
land use change,
industrial logging …
1. Project Design
The Project Idea
• Expand the park
• Implement
Noel Kempff Climate Action Project
• Indemnify existing timber
concessions
Objectives
Mitigation of
Climate Change
Sustainable Development
Biodiversity Conservation
1. Project Design
1. Project Design
Project characteristics
Project Type
Activity Implemented Jointly (AIJ)
Project Duration
1997 - 2026
Major Project Activities
• Forest Protection Program
• Community Development
• Carbon Monitoring and Verification
• Long-Term Conservation Finance
1. Project Design
Project Actors
Project Developers / Managers
The Nature Conservancy, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN Bolivia)
Project Investors
AEP, PacificCorp, BP America, Government of Bolivia
Lead Carbon Measurement Partner
Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Certification
Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS)
1. Project Design
Generating Emission Reductions
Schedule of Achieved Voluntary Emission Reductions
(SAVER 1997-2005): 1.034.107 tCO2
A: Stop Industrial Timber Harvesting
Avoiding further timber extraction and damage to vegetation
B: Avoiding Slash and Burn Agriculture
371,650 tCO2 (1997-2005)
791,444 tCO2 (1997-2005)
Through community development programs.
Stop Industrial Timber Harvesting
Challenges
Characteristics
• Driven by international timber markets (Bolivia = small open economy)
• Geographical extent: 9 regions (4 concessions, 5 departments)
How?
2. Generating Emission Reductions
1. How much timber would have been extracted in former concessionswithout project (= baseline)?
2. Impacts on other carbon stocks (dead wood, long-term wood products, vegetation)?
1. Simulation of baseline harvests driven by supply and demand
2. Biomass measurements of stocks, damage, regrowth
Avoiding Slash and Burn Agriculture
2. Generating Emission Reductions
Challenges
Characteristics
How?
1. How much forest clearing would have occurredwithout project (= baseline)?
2. Where would clearing have occurred?
1. Assessing historical land use change patterns
2. Simulation of deforestation with GEOMOD
• Deforestation driven by access to forest:distance to forest edge, communities, roads, rivers
• Conservative spatial modeling approach based ondeforestation rates
Additionality and leakage
• Without the financing of the project deforestation would have continued.
Additionality
• Logging activities being perpetuated elsewhereby the indemnified concessionaires.
• Slash and burn activities of communities in the communal forestry area.
• Shift of domestic timber supply caused by the impact of indemnification on timber prices and traded volumes.
Leakage
Leakage was calculated to be 171,618 tCO2 and was deducted from gross carbon benefits, taking into account …
2. Generating Emission Reductions
Main Benefits of the Project
• Certified emission reductions (1997-2005):1.034.107 tCO2
• Biologically diverse forest ecosystem
preserved;
• Indigenous villages achieved legal status as
"Communities of Native Peoples“; application for
official land title is underway;
• Alternative, environmentally sustainable economic
opportunities created (community forestry, hearts of palm).
3. Conclusions
• Carbon benefits from the project guaranteed
through 2026;
Certification
• Project's additionality, baseline, possible leakage, comprehensive monitoring plan, environmental and social impacts.
What has been certified?
• applying the recent CDM guidelines for A/R-projects (October 2005)
How?
• Full validation and verification assessment executed by SGS
2. Generating Emission Reductions
Result
• SGS’ opinion the project does currently meet the relevant criteria for CDM project activities.
• Schedule of Achieved Voluntary Emission Reductions(SAVER 1997-2005): 1.034.107 tCO2
• Full Project Design Document (PDD) including all methodologies.
3. Conclusions
Lessons learned
• large scale avoided deforestation projects can produce real and
measurable carbon offsets
• it generates substantial benefits to the climate, community, and
biodiversity
• this project meets rigorous certification criteria
• leakage can be estimated accurately on a national scale
Noel Kempff Climate Action Project demonstrates:
