Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  189
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Avoiding planned deforestation and degradation in the Valdivian Coastal Reserve, Chile
• Secondary name
• Country
  Chile
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  1273
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2023
• Duration
  20
• Project description
  Two main activities will be implemented: - Avoiding Planned Deforestation (APD) by stopping construction of the coastal highway - Avoiding Planned Degradation (APD) by stopping conversion of native forest to Eucalyptus plantations The fundamental objectives of the project are: 1. Protect threatened biodiversity by avoiding the planned deforestation of native rainforest. 2. Help to sustain and improve the well-being of rural and indigenous human communities surrounding the Reserve. 3. Protect forest carbon stocks over the long term. 4. Achieve sustainable long-term financing for the Reserve through carbon credit transactions. 5. Demonstrate a successful private sector funding strategy for climate change mitigation. 6. Widely share lessons learned during project development, in order to build climate change mitigation capacity. 7. Test scientific methodologies for quantifying emissions avoided and other impacts. 8. Improve voluntary carbon market accounting standards. 9. Influence future climate change mitigation policies and laws through the development and use of rigorous standards in the voluntary carbon market. 10. Create a reference center at a partner institution (Universidad Austral) as part of a global REDD network.
• Objective 1
  climate
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  return on investment
• Deforestation drivers
  industrial wood exploitation, infrastructure
• Type of forest
  wetland
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Regions : Los Ríos (XIV)
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Province: Valdivia

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2003-2013
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  581540
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Dead wood | Other
• Gasses included
  CH4 | CO2
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  42451
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=36472&IDKEY=m8723kjnf7kjandsaslmdv09887vaksmrmnwqkjoiuanfnfuq0a50294888
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  VCS
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  41735
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=36472&IDKEY=m8723kjnf7kjandsaslmdv09887vaksmrmnwqkjoiuanfnfuq0a50294888
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  https://vcsprojectdatabase2.apx.com/myModule/Interactive.asp?Tab=Projects&a=2&i=1175&lat=-40.101821&lon=-73.65486&bp=1 (not accessible as of September 2020); http://terracarbon.com/for_buyers/summary/valdivian_coastal_reserve_climate_action_project/ (not accessible as of September 2020); http://www.climate-standards.org/2015/10/05/avoiding-planned-deforestation-and-degradation-in-the-valdivian-coastal-reserve-chile/ https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/1175

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Non-conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  $1,925,915 Chilean Pesos in compensation per hectare expropriated on lands adjacent and similar to the project area.
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  ecotourism
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  Yes
• Is there forest enhancement?
  No
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  No
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes