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Bolivia’s Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project
(November 17th 2008)
Forest: Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (NKM) in Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project (NKMCAP) encompasses over 1.5 million ha of forest surrounded by high-rate logging concessions and agricultural conversions in Bolivia and the Brazilian States of Rondônia and Mato Grosso. The area encompasses five very different and important ecosystems: Amazonian rainforest, gallery forest, semi-deciduous tropical forest, flooded savanna and dry cerrado.
Project:
Type: Avoided Deforestation.
Goal/s:
- To completely protect 1.5 million ha of forest, primarily as “carbon forest” for carbon sequestration and storage.
- To foster sustainable alternative incomes to logging for local communities, predominantly via a community support programme and employment in park management, park ecotourism and as suppliers to NKM's 'eco-product' label Canopy Botanicals. Furthermore, the project assists local communities to attain legal status as indigenous people and secure land tenure.
How it will work:
- NKM expects to avoid 25-36 million tons of CO2 emissions over 30 years. This is hoped to earn significant carbon offset credits - from the avoidance, reduction or mitigation of emissions beyond those that would have occurred without the project - as a return on the initial US$11 million investment. Under a pioneering sharing system, 49% offset income will be reinvested in the Bolivian Government's nationwide CAPs, which aim to expand national parks for "biodiversity protection, offset certification, the development of additional carbon sequestration, and climate change mitigation projects”. Another 49% will accrue to industry contributors (PacifiCorp and BP) with a 2% “bonus” for the lead investor (American Electric Power).
- To ensure NKM’s full financial sustainability, other for-profit activities have been initiated. These include an endowment fund (under The Nature Conservancy), ecotourism, and a private green enterprise with international markets in organic foods, botanicals and ornamentals. This "Canopy Botanicals" is particularly concerned with ensuring ethical income distribution to local community suppliers.
- To prevent leakage, timber concessionaires within the surrounding 0.8 million ha have signed an indemnity agreement to cease logging and develop sustainable forestry. The park is protected by local rangers and deforestation monitored by regular aerial surveillance.
Start: 1997
Who is in charge:
The project has been developed through a unique partnership between the Bolivian Government; Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), a Bolivian conservation organisation established 1988; and The Nature Conservancy, a global conservation organisation based in Virginia (USA).
Endorsers:
- Approved by the governments of the United States and Bolivia.
Why is this project important for Forests Now?
- The park’s diverse ecosystems capture several hundred rare and endangered species, including the iconic jaguar and river otter, 620 bird species, black caiman and 110 orchids. Prior to the establishment of NKM this forest area was under imminent and demonstrable threat from logging and agricultural conversion.
- NKMCAP is the largest carbon offset project worldwide, showcasing with some success a cost-effective approach to cutting rainforest greenhouse gas emissions.
- NKMCAP takes careful account of indigneous peoples and their rights within the REDD framework, successfully providing substantial benefits to local communities.
[ REDD & AD | Standards | Central/South America ]
Updates
Links
 www.noelkempff.com/index.html
rainforests.mongabay.com/deforestation/2000/Bolivia.htm
news.mongabay.com/2005/1220-tnc.html
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