Our Projects
We are proud to partner with 50 producer cooperatives around the world, including 150,000 producers in 30 countries. Our credits ready for the market are being generated in Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay:
Our projects are listed below from our most mature to our newest programs. Verification of the projects also varies depending on both maturity of the project and on the possibilities available.
For information about the carbon market including definitions and acronyms used in the project descriptions below, please visit our glossary.
Cochabamba
Location: Bolivia
Project Description: 1,500 smallholders will plant 5,000 hectares of their own land with high-quality, mainly indigenous tropical hardwood tree species. In addition 1,000 hectares are destined for agro-forestry (with improved agriculture methods) and 1,200 hectares for permanent protection.
Project Participants: SICIREC- Asociación Accidental Cetefor-Sicirec ; The Federación de Comunidades Agropecuarias de Rurrenabaque (FECAR); Foundation Centro Tecnico Forestal (CETEFOR).
Total Carbon Tons available: 440,000 tCERs available from this project, as well as tree certificates (planted on non-eligible lands for CDM).
Total Hectares: 7,200 hectares
Certification: Project is CDM validated and UNFCCC Registered since June 2009 and is CCBA certified.
CDM Executive Board Reference: 2510
IGES ID: 1676
In development: SGS certification for trees planted, generating tree certificates.
Rurrenabaque
Location: Bolivia
Project Description: 1,500 smallholders will plant 2,500 hectares of their own land with high quality, mainly indigenous tropical hardwood tree species. In addition, 2,500 hectares are destined for agroforestry management with improved agriculture methods and 2,000 hectares for avoided deforestation under permanent protection.
Project Participants: SICIREC- Asociación Accidental Cetefor-Sicirec ; The Federación de Comunidades Agropecuarias de Rurrenabaque (FECAR); Foundation Centro Tecnico Forestal (CETEFOR).
Total Carbon Tons: The project will produce an estimated total of 600,000 tons of tCERs, a considerable amount of REDD and also VERs.
Total hectares: 7,000 hectares
Certification: Project is CDM validated and UNFCCC Registered since June 2009 and is CCBA certified.
CDM Executive Board Reference: 2510
IGES ID: 1676
In development: SGS certification for trees planted, generating tree certificates.
Alto Huayabamba
Location: San Martin, Peru
Cooperative: ACOPAGRO
Project Description: 1,500 small-scale producers of cocoa and sugar cane with 5 hectares of land each, with an average of 2.2 hectares of cocoa fields. Most of the farmers were previously coca planters.
Target Tree Certificates: Plantation of 1 million trees on 2,000 hectares generating 1 million tree certificates.
Target Carbon Tons generated: Plantation of 1 million trees on 2,000 hectares generating 500,000 t of C02 equivalent.
Total Hectares: The objective is to plant 2 million trees of agroforestry management in combination with cocoa trees and on degraded land for forestry management. The plantation consists of native trees including 20% teak, a native tropical hardwood.
►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and cocoa fields, generating tree certificates.
►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and cocoa fields, generating 500,000 CDM tons of C02 equivalent.
►Protect forests from deforestation and ecological corridors, generating 500,000 VCS Avoided Deforestation tons of C02 equivalent.
Certification: SGS Certification for trees planted, generating Tree Certificates.
In development:
►CDM validation scheduled for first semester of 2010. Project Design Document (PDD) for certification is finalized. Registration at UNFCCC target: September 2010.
►VCS Avoided Deforestation certification scheduled for 2011 to complement this project.
San Martin
Location: San Martin, Peru
Cooperative: Oro Verde
Project Description: Cooperative counts 500 members, small-scale producers of coffee managing 5 hectares of land each, with an average 2 ha of coffee fields. Oro Verde’s farmers, many of which are former coca farmers, now successfully market high-quality, shade-grown coffee around the world. Oro Verde is implementing agro-forestry projects to both increase coffee productivity and support local biodiversity.
Total Hectares: ►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and coffee fields, generating Tree Certificates.
►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and coffee fields, generating 500 000 CDM tons of C02 equivalent.
►Protect forests from deforestation and ecological corridors, generating 500 000 VCS Avoided Deforestation tons of C02 equivalent.
Target for Tree Certificates generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 1 million Tree Certificates.
Target for Carbon Tons generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 500,000 tons of C02 equivalent
Certification under development: ►Plantation certification by SGS target for Tree Certificates: June 2010
►CDM validation target date: January 2011.
►Target for registration at the UNFCCC Register: June 2011.
►VCS Avoided Deforestation as a second step.
Arroyos y Esteros
Location: Paraguari, Paraguay
Cooperative: Manduvira
Project Description: Manduvira counts 1,400 members of which 800 are sugar cane producers. The producers have between half a hectare and 20 ha of land, with an average of 3-5 hectares per farmer.
Target for Tree certificates generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 1 million Tree Certificates.
Target for Carbon Tons generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 500,000 tons of C02 equivalent
Total Hectares: Objective is to plant 2 million trees over 4,000 hectares with different models of plantation: agro-forestry and forestry only plantations, on pasture, degraded land and cultivated land, practicing sustainable forestry and agro-forestry combining native tree species.
►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and sugar cane fields, generating Tree Certificate.
►Reforest 1 million trees on degraded land, pasture land and agricultural fields, generating 500,000 CDM tons of C02 equivalent.
►Protect existing forests from deforestation and ecological corridors, generating VCS Avoided Deforestation tons of C02 equivalent (target: 500,000 t).
Certification under development: ►SGS validation for Tree Certificate target: June 2010.
►CDM validation target date: January 2011.
►Target for registration at UNFCCC Register: June 2011.
►VCS Avoided Deforestation as a second step.
Caagazu
Location: Paraguay
Project Description: The objective is to plant 2 million trees over 4,000 hectares (up to 4000 hectares depending on plantation of models between agro-forestry and forestry only plantations), of pasture, degraded land and cultivated land, practicing sustainable forestry and agro-forestry combining native tree species. The project is funded via the selling of Tree Certificates (2,000 hectares) and future credits of C02 equivalent (2,000 hectares).
Target for Tree Certificates generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 1 million Tree Certificate
Target for Carbon Tons generated: Plantation on 2,000 hectares generating 500,000 tons of C02 equivalent.
Certification target: ►SGS validation for Tree Certificates, target: January 2011
►Target for CDM validation: June 2011.
►Target for registration at the UNFCCC Register: December 2011.
Our projects are being implemented by the following fair trade cooperatives:
The Asociación de Comités de Productores Agropecuarios de San Martín (ACOPAGRO) is a cooperative of more than 1,300 small-scale cocoa farmers based in the Peruvian highlands. ACOPAGRO sells certified organic fair trade cocoa beans throughout the world, and is now implementing agro-forestry projects throughout member farms.
The Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Oro Verde is comprised of 300 small-scale coffee producers in Lamas, San Martín, Peru. During the 1980s, terrorism and drug trafficking affected this poor, mountainous region, and in the early 90s, the United Nations helped farmers to organize themselves into democratic cooperatives. Oro Verde’s farmers, many of which are former coca farmers, now successfully market high-quality, shade-grown coffee around the world. Oro Verde is implementing agro-forestry project to both increase coffee productivity and support local biodiversity.
Manduvirá Cooperative, founded in 1975, is a fair trade and organic certified cooperative with 1,400 members located in the village of Esteros in southwest Paraguay. In addition to organic sugar, members also grow oranges, grapefruit, bananas, melon, pineapple, manioc, maize, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts for home consumption or for sale on the local market. This successful cooperative is now entering reforestation activities for its members. Agro-forestry projects are providing much needed additional revenue to farmers within the cooperative.
