Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  601
• Project status 2022
  Ended
• Project name
  Milne Bay REDD+ Conservation Project
• Secondary name
  PNG Deforestation Project
• Country
  Papua New Guinea
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  58967
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2033
• Duration
  20
• Project description
  The project aims at promoting sustainable natural resource management and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation from logging and agricultural expansion. Through this project, a robust local institutional framework will be established to help land owners, including local communities, to manage forest and benefit from carbon funds. Activities include carbon monitoring, mapping assessment to monitor forest cover and the promotion of alternative and efficient energy technologies. The project is preventing logging and other destruction in the old growth forests by offering the farmers financial incentive that would have proceeded to deforest the area. Only a few area will be dedicated to selective logging.
• Objective 1
  climate
• Objective 2
  return on investment
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  cattle grazing, charcoal production, energy wood, illegal logging, industrial agriculture or cattle ranching, industrial wood exploitation
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  Non
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Province : Milne bay
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Not Applicable

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2013-2022
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  24459491
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  ND
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  Gold Standard

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  in process
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  none
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  ND
• 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
  Controversies: http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/09/17/the-strange-story-of-sovereign-green-global-australia-green-giant-venture-fund-astra-resources-and-a-redd-project-in-papua-new-guinea/; http://www.sovereigngreenglobal.com/current-project (not accessible as of August 2020); http://www.cdmbazaar.net/UserManagement/FileStorage/GR4XM5I8H6UK7S23AVEFYNCZ1LOWQ0

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  50% of VERs given to forest owners (private and communities).
• Provides employment?
  ND
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  fuel efficient stoves | sustainable mining activities
• Is there tenure clarification?
  ND
• Is there environmental education?
  ND
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  ND
• Is there forest enhancement?
  ND
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  ND
• Is there other community benefits?
  ND