Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  1200
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  ACAP ALBANIA VJOSË-NARTË A/R PROJECT
• Secondary name
• Country
  Albania
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2022
• Size (in hectare)
  3
• Start year
  2021
• End year
  2041
• Duration
  20
• Project description
  The Vjosë-Nartë A/R project is part of the broader Italian ACAP - Azione Comunitaria per le Aree Protette dell’Albania (Community Action for the Protected Areas of Albania) project. This initiative, funded by Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (AICS), the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, aims at preserving some Albanian protected areas, created after Albania entered the European network of Natura 2000. In this context, the Vjosë-Nartë A/R project, wants to address the CO2 emissions reduction goal, by increasing the carbon stock in the Protected Landscape of Vjosë-Nartë through A/R activities. In order to achieve the objective, 9’302 trees have been planted, in an area characterized by native vegetation, which is nowadays sparse, due to environmental extreme events occurred in the past. After these phenomena, the natural regrowing struggled to be accomplished and hence four different indigenous species of trees were put in the ground: • Pinus halepensis: 4’604 specimens • Pinus pinea: 2’420 specimens • Populus alba: 1’143 specimens • Laurus nobilis: 1’135 specimens The project is expected to remove 722 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in the Protected Landscape of Vjosë-Nartë, in a temporal horizon of 20 years. However, this project has been thought as a first small instance of future reforestation activities in nearby areas.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  climate
• Objective 3
  influence national policy
• Deforestation drivers
  ND
• Type of forest
  other-meditarrean shrubland and pineland
• Project activity
  IFM
• Project Type
  IFM
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  ecosystem restoration
• Multiple locations?
  no
• Jurisdiction level 1
  County: Vlöre
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Municipality of Vlöre

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2021-2041
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
  2021-2041
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  592
• Leakage is expected?
  no
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Below ground biomass
• Gasses included
  CO2
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  VCS

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  in process
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=55146&IDKEY=dq934lkmsad39asjdkfj90qlkalsdkngaf98ulkandDfdvDdfh076046334
• 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
  VCS PD (https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/2547; ER info: 2. ACAP - Project Design Document_revCS-210823.pdf

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  No
• Monetary benefit type
  ND
• Monetary benefit detail
  No specific payment to communitites. The ownership of the carbon credit generated by ACAP project belongs to the National Agency for the Protected Areas (NAPA) and the revenues from the sale of carbon credits will be used for reinvesting in the activities within ACAP framework and in monitoring the reforestation project
• Provides employment?
  Check
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  Other
• 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?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  Yes
• Is there other community benefits?
  ND