Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  158
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  The Paraguay Forest Conservation Project - Reduction of GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Chaco-Pantanal ecosystem
• Secondary name
• Country
  Paraguay
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  4745
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2031
• Duration
  20
• Project description
  The 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 1
  climate
• Objective 2
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  industrial agriculture or cattle ranching
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Department : Alto Paraguay
• Jurisdiction level 2
  District : Bahia Negra and Fuerte Olimpo

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2011-2031
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  198238
• Leakage is expected?
  yes
• Carbon pools included
  Above ground biomass | Below ground biomass | Dead wood | Litter | other
• Gasses included
  CH4 | CO2
• Reference period start year
  1999
• Reference period end year
  2010
• Carbon standard 1
  CCB

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  42530
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  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/
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  VCS
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  certified
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  42305
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/953
• 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://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 type
  Non-conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  SPO 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 - type
  ND
• 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