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Brazil’s Juma Sustainable Development Reserve Project for REDD Implementation
(November 17th 2008)
Forest: Juma Sustainable Development Reserve in the Amazon Forest, Brazil.
The reserve is very close to the busy BR 319 highway and surrounding Amazon forest suffers historically high deforestation pressure from farmers, loggers and general development.
Project
Type: REDD
Goal/s:
- Avoid the degradation of 366.151 ha of rainforest and the emission of 210,885,604 million tones of CO2 into the atmosphere by 2050.
- Generate carbon credit out of 189,767,027 tons of CO2 emissions.
- Halt deforestation in a forest area that is under severe land conversion pressure.
- Improve the well-being of forest peoples living in the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve and its surroundings.
How it will work:
- Amazonas State will invest the resources generated by avoided CO2 emission in controlling and monitoring deforestation within the Juma reserve and improving the region’s living standards. Investments are also expected to generate sustainable economic activities and to sponsor research and conservation project in and out the Juma reserve.
Start: 2008; finish 2050.
Who is in charge:
Sustainable Amazon Foundation (Fundacao Amazonas Sustentavel, FAS), created in December 2007 by the Amazonas Government and Bradesco Bank.
Endorsers:
- The project received the stewardship of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) and has been audited by the German Tuv-Sud company, which will follow the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). Juma is the first area in Latin America to receive a certificate for Avoided Deforestation.
Why is this project important for Forests Now?
- Simulations of deforestation suggest that, over the coming decades, Amazonas State will suffer a rapid increase in forest loss, producing 3.6 billion tons of CO2. Avoided Deforestation projects such as Juma could help reverse this trend.
- The project is a pioneer attempt to halt deforestation caused by land conversion pressure in the Brazilian Amazon basin by the creation of financial mechanisms to generate carbon credits under REDD. The Amazonas Government has officially stated that it considers REDD the only possible solution to protect the region’s forests from economic pressure.
- First REDD project in Brazil.
[ REDD & AD | Standards | Central/South America ]
Updates
Links
 www.climate-standards.org/pdf/release_juma_english_v_1_0_2.pdf
www.fas-amazonas.org/arquivos/juma_executive_summary.pdf
www.climate-standards.org/projects/files/juma/PDD_Juma_Reserve_RED_Project_v5_0.pdf
www.climate-standards.org/projects/files/juma/Validation_Report_Juma_CCBA_30Sep_2008.pdf
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