The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project - Reduction of GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Chaco-Pantanal ecosystem
Project/Juridiction proponent
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
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Guyra Paraguay | #http://www.guyra.org.py/# | Paraguay | NGO/private non for profit |
Swire Pacific Offshore Operations Ltd. | #http://www.swire.com.sg/# | Paraguay | Private for profit |
Project/Juridiction Partners
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
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Unión de Comunidades de la Nación Yshir (UCINY) | ND | Paraguay | Public |
World Land Trust(WLT) | #http://www.worldlandtrust.org/# | Paraguay | NGO/private non for profit |
Project characteristics
- ID-RECCO ID158
- Project status 2022Ongoing
- Project nameThe Paraguay Forest Conservation Project - Reduction of GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Chaco-Pantanal ecosystem
- Secondary name
- CountryParaguay
- Last IDRECCO update year2020
- Size (in hectare)4745
- Start yearND
- End year2031
- Duration20
- Project descriptionThe project goal is to conserve the natural and cultural qualities, including the stored carbon, of forest lands in the Chaco-Pantanal transition zone of Alto Paraguay, of high conservation value but threatened with transformation to cattle ranching. Private holdings that are legally available for ranching development are targeted, particularly those that help maintain ecological connectivity in the general context of on-going fragmentation and isolation at a landscape level. The strategy is to purchase available properties in partnership (co-ownership and management) with local communities, with legal safeguards to ensure permanence of conservation management regime. It is a grouped project with an initial project instance consisting of the purchase of a 4,745 ha property, undertaken in partnership with the Union de Comunidades de la Nación Yshir (UCINY) representing the Yshir indigenous community. Further project instances will replicate this basic approach.
- Objective 1climate
- Objective 2biodiversity conservation
- Objective 3social development
- Deforestation driversindustrial agriculture or cattle ranching
- Type of foresthumid
- Project activityREDD
- Project TypeREDD
- Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activityNA
- Multiple locations?No
- Jurisdiction level 1Department : Alto Paraguay
- Jurisdiction level 2District : Bahia Negra and Fuerte Olimpo
Carbon accounting
- Crediting period2011-2031
- Period to calculate annual carbon credits
- Annual carbon credits
- Total carbon credits198238
- Leakage is expected?yes
- Carbon pools includedAbove ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Dead wood | Litter | other
- Gasses includedCH4 | CO2
- Reference period start year1999
- Reference period end year2010
- Carbon standard 1CCB
Carbon certification
- Carbon standard 1 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 1 Publication date42530
- Carbon standard 1 Weblinkshttp://www.climate-standards.org/2010/06/21/the-paraguay-forest-conservation-project-reduction-of-ghg-emissions-from-deforestation-and-forest-degradation-in-the-chaco-pantanal-ecosystem/
- Carbon standard 1 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 2VCS
- Carbon standard 2 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 2 Publication date42305
- Carbon standard 2 Weblinkshttps://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/953
- Carbon standard 2 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 3none
- Carbon standard 3 ProgressND
- Carbon standard 3 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 3 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 3 Expiry dateND
- Source of informationhttps://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/953; https://vcsprojectdatabase2.apx.com/myModule/Interactive.asp?Tab=Projects&a=2&i=953&lat=-19.425592&lon=-58.834586&bp=1 (not accessible as of September 2020); http://www.climate-standards.org/2010/06/21/the-paraguay-forest-conservation-project-reduction-of-ghg-emissions-from-deforestation-and-forest-degradation-in-the-chaco-pantanal-ecosystem/; http://www.vcsprojectdatabase.org/#/project_details/953 (not accessible as of September 2020)
Community level intervention
- Any monetary benefits?Yes
- Monetary benefit typeNon-conditional
- Monetary benefit detailSPO will pay $1/yr./ha to indigenous community for 20 year lifetime of project for community development activities decided by the community.
- Provides employment?ND
- Are there non-cash benefits?Yes
- Economic activities - typeND
- Is there tenure clarification?Yes
- Is there environmental education?No
- Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?No
- Is there forest enhancement?No
- Is there community infrastracture improvement?ND
- Is there other community benefits?Yes