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| Title | Carbon-forestry projects in the Philippines: potential and challenges: the Quirino forest-carbon development project in Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor | | Author | Raquel C. Lopez, Maria Noriza Herrera and Rodel D. Lasco | | Year | 2011 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Philippines | | City of Publication | Los Banos, Philippines | | Series Number | Working Paper no. 132. DOI: 10.5716/WP11057.PDF | | Number of Pages | 56 | | Call Number | WP0149-11 | | Keywords | Carbon market, climate change, forest-carbon development, mitigation, community-based forest management, Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor, Quirino forest carbon |
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| The forest-carbon development project in Quirino covers the fragmented open forest patches within the Quirino Protected Landscape, which forms part of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor. This project is part of Conservation International Philippines (CI Philippines) effort in building alliances with local communities, the private sector, government agencies and NGOs to improve the management of the Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor and strengthen the enforcement of environmental laws.
Acting as the project proponent and intermediary, CI Philippines can potentially institutionalise the project. Not only is such a purpose part of their mission as a non-government organization but also they have the technical capacity to do so. The project is to be implemented as community-based forest management, involving local communities (represented by three people’s organizations) made up of 96 individual and household landholders, Palacian Economic Development Association Inc (a local NGO), the provincial government, Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region 2 and the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office and the project monitoring team of CI Philippines. MoreTrees, a non-profit carbon offset provider, funds the project.
A total of 177 ha, consisting of small landholdings (110 parcels) in five barangays within
the municipalities of Maddela (94 ha) and Nagtipunan (83 ha), has been delineated as the project area. The 108 parcels are within classified forestlands (162 ha) and most landholders have certificate of stewardship contracts as their tenure instruments; there are only two parcels of private land (15 ha) with ownership titles.
The project deploys an agroforestation scheme, conducting reforestation activities by planting native tree species on a total of 155 ha and an agroforestry system by planting fruit trees on 22 ha.
Just like other project proponents, CI Philippines also attempted to participate under the Clean Development Mechanism afforestation/reforestation (CDM A/R) framework. It initially drafted a plan for 13 000 ha as a CDM A/R project but is now targeting the Verified Carbon Standards. Validation by a third party has already been conducted under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards after some corrective action, including revision of the project design document and subsequent revalidation. |
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