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Project: Empresas Públicas de Medellin REDD+ Project
9999/ND = No data
Type of information:
Project/Program proponent:
Name
Website
Location of headquarters
Organization type
Empresas Públicas de Medellin (EPM)
#https://www.epm.com.co/site/#
Colombia
private for-profit
Project/Program Partners:
Name
Organization type
Role
Information sources
MGM
ND
helping in PDD writing
General Information:
Project ID
Project name
Empresas Públicas de Medellin REDD+ Project
Secondary name
Last Update
03 Sep 2020
Size (hectare)
5648
Start year
2011
End year
2031
Project description
EPM (Empresas Públicas de Medellin) is a very large Colombian utility provider. Its REDD+ project aims to ensure the protection of natural forests (under its ownership) surrounding its Miraflores, Riogrande I Porce II and Porce III hydroelectric project reservoirs (5,648 hectares) in order to achieve the climate change mitigation commitments outlined in its corporate environmental policy. It will accomplish this through the strengthening of the following activities: - Monitoring and surveillance; - Planting of trees - Promotion of reforestation for timber and firewood, silvihorticulture, sustainable agroforestry or silvopasture; - Efficient stove program; - Environmental education program and proposed biological corridor. Part of EPM's objective in inititiating the project is to secure the water supply to its reservoirs by protecting its forests.
Objective 1
climate
Objective 2
biodiversity conservation
Objective 3
social development
Deforestation drivers
energy wood;illegal logging;local livelihoods;mining
Type of forest
humid
Project Type
ARR;IFM;REDD
Details for Afforestation/Reforestation projects
agroforestry;plantation
Project located in an official IUCN protected area
yes
Dominant type
REDD
Country ID
170
Country
Name of the protected area
reserva natural La Forzosa; reserva natural de las Aves Arrierito Antioqueño (Lipaugus weber);
Category of protected area (IUCN classification)
ND
Status
Ongoing
Multiple location?
Yes
Region
South America
Jurisdiction level 1
Department : Antioquia
Jurisdiction level 2
Municipality : Amalfi, Guadalupe, and Anori
Longitude
-75.225212
Latitude
6.728932
Forest carbon certification:
Expected anual carbon credits(tCO2eq)
5462
Crediting period
2011-2031
Total expected carbon credits(tCO2eq)
109242
Methodology for carbon standard
VCS VM0009
Type of accounting baseline
ND
Standard 1 name
CCB
Standard 1 certification status
certified
Standard 1 validation date
2013-12-02
Standard 1 documentation
http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/04/05/empresas-publicas-de-medellin-redd-project/#http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/04/05/empresas-publicas-de-medellin-redd-project/#
Standard 1 expiration date
Standard 2 name
none
Standard 2 certification status
ND
Standard 2 validation date
Standard 2 documentation
Standard 3 name
none
Standard 3 certification status
ND
Standard 3 validation date
Standard 3 documentation
Carbon credit transactions:
Period of issuance
Quantity of credits sold (in tCO2)
Buyer's name
Type of buyer
Buyer's sector
Buyer's nationality
Buyer's motivation
Type of credit market
Sources
Transaction confirmed on official carbon register (APX or Markit)
Financing Sources:
Name of the funding organization
Type of financing
Amount (in USD)
Financing period
Information sources
EPM
Equity or own proponent capital
9999
9999-9999
PDD Summary p. 9
Government municipalities
International aid/grant
9999
9999-9999
PDD p. 10
Community interventions:
Payment to communities?
no payment
Payment details
ND
Economic activities - type
agroforestry;fuel efficient stoves;plantation forestry;tree planting
Information sources
PDD Summary
Is there tenure clarification?
Is there environmental education?
Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
Is there forest enhancement?
Is there community infrastracture improvement?
Is there other community benefits?
Are there non-conditional cash payments?
Are there conditional cash payments?
Are there non-cash benefits?
9999/ND = No data
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