Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  101
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Sierra Gorda Premium Carbon: Carbon Sequestration in Communities of Extreme Poverty in the Sierra Gorda of Mexico
• Secondary name
  Carbon Sequestration in Communities of Extreme Poverty in the Sierra Gorda of Mexico
• Country
  Mexico
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2022
• Size (in hectare)
  247
• Start year
  1997
• End year
  2042
• Duration
  46
• Project description
  Bosque Sustentable A.C. is working with private landowners in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve to establish reforestation projects to restore degraded lands with native trees. The project aims to mitigate climate change while providing benefits to local communities and promoting biodiversity conservation. Between 1997 and 2009, 138 reforestation sites were established. The area was projected to increase by 40 hectares each year between 2010 and 2013. this project uniquely involves large numbers of small reforestation projects, some as small as 5 hectares in area. This allows for many individual farmers who would be otherwise excluded from larger scale reforestation projects to be involved in the project. The purpose of the project is to reforest areas that require restoration while providing an alternative productive activity to hundreds of landowners and landholders in conditions of severe poverty while capturing carbon at the same time. The project is primarily designed to overcome the financial barrier to landholder participation. Bosque Sustentable provides the landholders with incentives to follow the forest management plan proposed by Bosque Sustentable.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  social development
• Objective 3
  climate
• Deforestation drivers
  local livelihoods
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  ARR
• Project Type
  ARR
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  ecosystem restoration, plantation
• Multiple locations?
  Non
• Jurisdiction level 1
  State : Querétaro and State : San Luis Potosí
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Municipality : Pinal de Amoles, Jalpan de Serra, Landa de Matamoros and Arroyo Seco in the state : Querétaro and Municipality : Xilitla and Aquismón in the state : San Luis Potosí

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  1997-2042
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  100134
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Soil organic carbon
• Gasses included
  CH4 | CO2
• Reference period start year
  2007
• Reference period end year
  2016
• Carbon standard 1
  Planeta Carbono Neutral

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://planetacarbononeutral.org/alianza-por-la-sierra-gorda/
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  42541
• Carbon standard 2
  CCB
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  expired
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  40714
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  http://www.climate-standards.org/2010/12/07/carbon-sequestration-in-communities-of-extreme-poverty-in-the-sierra-gorda-of-mexico/
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  42541
• Carbon standard 3
  VCS
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  can't confirm
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  40714
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  44078
• Source of information
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/CCBA/Projects/Sierra_Gorda_Reforestation_Project/Bosque+Sustentable+CCB+valid+Exh+11.pdf; Accessed June 2023 http://www.climate-standards.org/2010/12/07/carbon-sequestration-in-communities-of-extreme-poverty-in-the-sierra-gorda-of-mexico/ ; Accessed June 2023 Project website: https://sierragorda.net/en/home/ http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/carbon-sequestration-communities-extreme-poverty-sierra-gorda-mexico (not accessible as of September 2020); http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/land-purchase-carbon-sequestration-natural-regeneration-sierra-gorda; (not accessible as of June 2023)

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  Payments are scheduled at regular intervals throughout the 30-year project and are contingent upon participants complying with management activities.more than 60 small landowners receiving PES | 264 project participants will receive regular payments for their reforestation efforts.
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  agriculture | agroforestry
• Is there tenure clarification?
  Yes
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  No
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  No
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes