CCB

Katingan REDD+ Forest Protection

Reducing Indonesia’s emissions by protecting and restoring 149,800 hectares of peatland ecosystems

This project's goal is to protect and restore 149,800 hectares of peatland ecosystems, offering local people sustainable sources of income while tackling global climate change. The project area stores vast amounts of COand plays a vital role in stabilizing water flows, preventing devastating peat fires, enriching soil nutrients, and providing clean water. Rich in biodiversity, it is home to large populations of many high conservation-value species—including some of the world’s most endangered, such as the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus)—and is surrounded by villages for which it supports traditional livelihoods, including farming, fishing, and non-timber forest-product harvesting.

The project area is located entirely within state-designated production forest which, without the project, would be converted to fast-growing industrial pulpwood plantations. The project prevents this, having obtained full legal control of the production forest area through an Ecosystem Restoration Concession license, blocking the applications of plantation companies.

This project has completed the additional Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) standards. The forest habitat supports 2 critically endangered, 11 endangered and 31 vulnerable species. Preliminary estimates indicate an estimated population of nearly 4,000 orangutans and 10,000 Bornean gibbons, as well as over 500 Proboscis monkeys. These populations represent over 5% of the remaining global populations of these species. Overall, the project area’s biodiversity includes 157 birds, 67 mammals, 41 reptiles, 8 amphibians, 111 fish, and 314 floral species.

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Project location

Technology and mechanism

REDD+
Incentivizing communities in developing countries to keep their forests standing and adopt sustainable forest management techniques.
Mechanism
Avoidance
Durability
Permanence: 60+ years
The durability of this project is 60 years, based on its crediting period. This crediting period is extendable to 100 years. However, the project benefits are expected to extend beyond this time scale. The effective protection status of the forest and peatlands is anticipated to be maintained and extended, either through a further concession license or directly under state ownership as the global importance of the stored carbon stocks and biodiversity are fully recognized as a result of the project.

Project certifications

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Certifier

Registry ID

VCS1477

Project methodology

Updated Mar 09, 2015
Verified by Environmental Services, Inc. and DNV GL

Project design document (PDD)

Updated May 11, 2016
Verified by SCS Global Services

Current verifier of project outcomes

Project details

Emissions reduced or carbon removed on an annual basis
7,451,846 tonnes
How the project approaches risk of reversal
The project mitigates reversal risk through the use of a buffer pool.
What actions would be taken by the project developer if anticipated emissions reductions do not take place, or if carbon removal is reversed in the future?
In the event of a potential reversal, the carbon losses are covered through the cancellation of an equivalent number of buffer credits from the VCS AFOLU buffer pool. The buffer pool approach for this project is outlined on page 37 of the VM0007 methodology. A risk analysis was performed using the most recent VCS AFOLU Non-Permanence Risk Tool (Version 3.2). With this tool, a risk factor of 10% was established, along with a corresponding buffer pool.
What calculation methods are used to independently reproduce and verify the carbon impact of the project?
Please refer to pages 32-37 of the methodology document.
Citation: Methodology
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Decent Work and Economic Growth
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