IMPACT REFORESTATION IN THE CHACO PROJECT
Project/Juridiction proponent
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
---|---|---|---|
Investancia Paraguay S.A | https://investancia.com/ | Paraguay | Private for profit |
Project/Juridiction Partners
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
---|---|---|---|
Ferrocarril | ND | Paraguay | local communities/landowners/cooperatives |
Ostrya Conservation | ND | Paraguay | NGO/private non for profit |
Eirete | ND | Paraguay | local communities/landowners/cooperatives |
Project characteristics
- ID-RECCO ID943
- Project status 2022Ongoing
- Project nameIMPACT REFORESTATION IN THE CHACO PROJECT
- Secondary name
- CountryParaguay
- Last IDRECCO update year2022
- Size (in hectare)120000
- Start yearND
- End year2050
- Duration30
- Project descriptionThe Project is planting pongamia (Pongamia pinnata) throughout the department of Alto Paraguay, Paraguay on areas that were cleared of native Chaco forests more than ten years prior to the projects’ start date
- Objective 1climate
- Objective 2Biodiversity conservation
- Objective 3social development
- Deforestation driversPopulation increase | infrastructure | industrial agriculture and cattle ranching | cattle grazing
- Type of forestdry|humid
- Project activityARR
- Project TypeARR
- Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activityPlantation
- Multiple locations?yes
- Jurisdiction level 1Departments: Alto Paraguay, Boquerón, and Presidente Hayes
- Jurisdiction level 2Multiple locations
Carbon accounting
- Crediting period2020-2050
- Period to calculate annual carbon credits
- Annual carbon credits
- Total carbon credits59728
- Leakage is expected?yes
- Carbon pools includedAbove ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Dead wood | Litter | Soil organic carbon
- Gasses includedCO2
- Reference period start year2011
- Reference period end year2020
- Carbon standard 1VCS
Carbon certification
- Carbon standard 1 ProgressIn process
- Carbon standard 1 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 1 Weblinkshttps://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/2496
- Carbon standard 1 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 2CCB
- Carbon standard 2 ProgressIn process
- Carbon standard 2 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 2 Weblinkshttps://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=53214&IDKEY=f903q4jsafkasjfu90amnmasdfkaidflnmdf9348r09dmfasdf73382106
- Carbon standard 2 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 3none
- Carbon standard 3 ProgressNA
- Carbon standard 3 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 3 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 3 Expiry dateND
- Source of informationhttps://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=53216&IDKEY=9kjalskjf098234kj28098sfkjlf098098kl32lasjdflkj909j73384864
Community level intervention
- Any monetary benefits?Yes
- Monetary benefit typeNon-conditional
- Monetary benefit detailThe project proponent is renting community land and reforesting with pongamia, the rental payments they will receive, etc., prior to being asked to sign an agreement with Investancia | Direct payment will be made as community
- Provides employment?Yes
- Are there non-cash benefits?Yes
- Economic activities - typetree planting | |economic interest group | other-silvopastural
- 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?Yes
- Is there other community benefits?Yes