Lower Zambezi REDD+ project
Project/Juridiction proponent
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
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BioCarbon Partners | #http://biocarbonpartners.com/# | Zambia | Private for profit |
Project/Juridiction Partners
Name | Website | Location of headquarters | Organization type |
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Musika Development Initiatives Ltd | ND | Zambia | NGO/private non for profit |
Zambian Forestry Department | ND | Zambia | Public |
BioCarbon Partners Ltd. | ND | Zambia | Private for profit |
Conservation Farming Unit | ND | Zambia | ND |
ecoPartners (Ecological Carbon Offset Partners, LLC) | ND | Zambia | Private for profit |
Engineers Without Borders Canada | ND | Zambia | ND |
Project characteristics
- ID-RECCO ID367
- Project status 2022Ongoing
- Project nameLower Zambezi REDD+ project
- Secondary name
- CountryZambia
- Last IDRECCO update year2020
- Size (in hectare)40126
- Start yearND
- End year2039
- Duration30
- Project descriptionThe Lower Zambezi REDD+ Project takes place on 38,781 hectares (ha) of privately-owned land in Rufunsa District, Zambia. The Project Area is known as ‘Rufunsa Conservancy’ (Conservancy), and is owned by a Zambian company named Sable Transport Limited. The Conservancy is one of the last intact areas of forest within Lusaka Province (named after the nearby capital city), and provides a 60-kilometer buffer to Lower Zambezi National Park (NP) , a strategic protected area in Zambia in a globally significant trans-frontier conservation area. Lower Zambezi NP is adjacent to Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe which is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site. The core project climate activities undertaken include forest carbon inventorying, modeling cumulative deforestation patterns, and soil carbon assessments. Core community project activities include up to eighteen different types of community-based deforestation mitigation initiatives designed to create sustainable, scalable alternatives to deforestation, and strategic, meaningful incentives that comprise part of pay for performance programs that support forest conservation. Core biodiversity project activities include forest conservation systems, biodiversity monitoring and management, and fire management.
- Objective 1biodiversity conservation
- Objective 2climate
- Objective 3social development
- Deforestation driverscharcoal production, local livelihoods, slash and burn agriculture
- Type of forestdry
- Project activityREDD
- Project TypeREDD
- Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activityNA
- Multiple locations?No
- Jurisdiction level 1Province : Lusaka
- Jurisdiction level 2District : Rufunsa
Carbon accounting
- Crediting period2009-2039
- Period to calculate annual carbon credits
- Annual carbon credits
- Total carbon credits6309472
- Leakage is expected?yes
- Carbon pools includedSoil organic carbon
- Gasses includedCO2
- Reference period start year2020
- Reference period end year2021
- Carbon standard 1CCB
Carbon certification
- Carbon standard 1 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 1 Publication date44743
- Carbon standard 1 Weblinkshttps://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=69817&IDKEY=sq934lkmsad39asjdkfj90qlkalsdkngaf98ulkandDfdvDdfhd96277643
- Carbon standard 1 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 2VCS
- Carbon standard 2 Progresscertified
- Carbon standard 2 Publication date41733
- Carbon standard 2 Weblinkshttps://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=16454&IDKEY=s0e98hfalksuf098fnsdalfkjfoijmn4309JLKJFjlaksjfla9F22690066
- Carbon standard 2 Expiry dateND
- Carbon standard 3none
- Carbon standard 3 ProgressND
- Carbon standard 3 Publication dateND
- Carbon standard 3 WeblinksND
- Carbon standard 3 Expiry dateND
- Source of informationhttps://vcsprojectdatabase2.apx.com/myModule/Interactive.asp?Tab=Projects&a=2&i=1202&lat=-15.4056805479607&lon=29.3855227650799&bp=1; http://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/lower-zambezi-redd-project ; http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/project/Lower-Zambezi-REDD-Project ; http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/03/13/lower-zambezi-redd-project/ ; http://www.climate-standards.org/2013/03/13/lower-zambezi-redd-project/
Community level intervention
- Any monetary benefits?Yes
- Monetary benefit typeConditional
- Monetary benefit detail10% of ecotourism revenues will be awarded to community trust fund on condition of expanded wildlife populations in HCV project areas | 'Community Covenants' structure project activities to be dependant on reduced deforestation and biodiversity enhancement
- Provides employment?Yes
- Are there non-cash benefits?Yes
- Economic activities - typeagriculture | agroforestry | economic interest groups | ecotourism | microenterprise | tree planting
- 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?Yes