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Project Design

CCIs forestry projects fall broadly into two categories: avoided deforestation and reforestation. Although very different, b oth are critical to managing forests sustainably and mitigating climate change. Our work to develop measurement systems, advance international agreements, and secure financing provides the basis for projects to happen on the ground.

We have convened a Project Design Team to develop projects, providing expertise, links to the measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) system, and access to financing. The team ensures projects are fully consistent with the MRV, and that local NGOs and communities understand the value of this approach, as partner governments will require project developers to use the MRV to demonstrate support of the national forestry plan.

Our presence in Guyana, Cambodia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Indonesia offers us the chance to work on a portfolio of landmark projects and forestry initiatives. In each country, we support the national governments and take a made-to-measure approach that responds to specific needs and goals. In Guyana, we work directly with the Office of the President on creating and seeking funding for a lowcarbon development strategy to find economic incentives for conservation as an alternative to converting the countrys 18 million hectares of forest to other uses. In Tanzania, we are focused on avoided deforestation projects, while in Kenya, where less than 2 percent of the total land area is forested, we are helping to start new reforestation projects.

In the Asia-Pacific region, we have developed a strategy to address the challenge of scaling-up REDD demonstration projects. Together with Terra Global Capital and Pact/Collaborative Forest Partnership, CCI has created a generic ten step carbon development process in Cambodia which ensures that proposed REDD demonstration projects meet basic eligibility criteria, are subject to rigorous carbon accounting, and also protect the social and environmental values of forests. All CCI-supported REDD projects are subject to third party validation using the Voluntary Carbon Standard and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard. The VCS is currently undertaking the dual validation of a new REDD Methodology (for project activities that Reduce Emissions from Deforestation on Degrading Land) for a community forestry project in Cambodia. The approach is now being replicated at different REDD project sites in Indonesia.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)


The prevention of tropical deforestation can deliver as much as 65 percent of the total potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forestry and land use practices. To include avoided deforestation in the post-Kyoto climate treaty, we must determine viable methods of measuring forest carbon, and negotiate an internationally-approved, performance-based system for forest carbon trading. Demonstration projects are critical to both of these efforts.

Historically it has been difficult to curb global deforestation, but renewed efforts to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) were called for by the 2007 Bali Roadmap, a set of decisions culminating from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, and charting the course for future intergovernmental negotiations on the next climate treaty. This Roadmap created a new REDD framework enabling countries to be financially compensated for reducing emissions from deforestation, in part by monetizing forest carbon.

Project Benefits & Support


Our projects benefit impoverished, forest-dependent communities by attracting financing, providing jobs, and potentially creating new sources of revenue. In addition to contributing to the mitigation of global climate change, the projects yield valuable local environmental services, such as increasing land productivity, reducing water scarcity, and protecting habitats of threatened species, which results in greater biodiversity.

CCI launched its Forestry and Development program in 2008 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for Carbon and Povery Reduction.

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