PROJECT DESCRIPTION SURUÍ FOREST CARBON PROJECT Document Prepared by: Partners Technical Coordination Project Title Suruí Forest Carbon Project Version 1.0 Date of Issue October 13, 2011 Prepared By Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas - IDESAM Contact Almir Suruí Narayamoga - General Coordinator Metareilá Association - [email protected] Mariano Colini Cenamo - Executive Secretary IDESAM - [email protected] 1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Project Proponent of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project Metareilá Association of the Suruí Indigenous People Almir Suruí Narayamoga - General Coordinator Technical Coordination Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas - IDESAM Mariano Colini Cenamo - Executive Secretary Gabriel Cardoso Carrero – Researcher of the Climate Change Program Pedro Gandolfo Soares – Researcher of the Climate Change Program Mariana Nogueira Pavan - Coordinator of the Climate Change Program Claudia Vitel – PhD student from the INPA and AgroParisTech Institute Heberton Barros - Coordinator GIS Laboratory Renan Kamimura – Researcher of GIS Laboratory Noeli Moreira – Intern of GIS Laboratory Partner Institutions: Forest Trends Jacob Olander - Katoomba Incubator Director Beto Borges - Director of Communities and Markets Program Phil Covell - Katoomba Incubator Business Analyst Joerg Seifert-Granzin - Senior Technical Advisor Michael Richards - Natural Resource Economist Kanindé Association for Ethno-Environmental Defense Israel Correa Valley Junior - General Coordinator Ivaneide Bandeira Cardozo - Project Coordinator Amazon Conservation Team - ACT-Brazil Marcus Vasco van Roosmalen - President Wesley Pacheco - GIS Laboratory Coordinator Luiza Viana - Lawyer Thiago Ávila in memoriam - Anthropologist Brazilian Biodiversity Fund - FUNBIO Ângelo Augusto dos Santos - Climate Change and Clean Energy Coordinator Manoel Serrão - Economic and Financial Mechanisms Coordinator Acknowledgments The developers of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project wish to thank Lucio Pedroni, lead author of the VM0015 methodology, for the valuable contributions provided to achieve this document. This document was prepared with financial support from Forest Trends / Katoomba Group. 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Table of Contents Acronyms ............................................................................................................................... 4 1 PROJECT DETAILS ............................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Summary Description of the Project ............................................................................. 5 1.2 Sectoral Scope and Project Type ................................................................................. 7 1.3 Project Proponent ........................................................................................................ 8 1.4 Other Entities Involved in the Project ........................................................................... 8 1.5 Project Start Date........................................................................................................10 1.6 Project Crediting Period ..............................................................................................10 1.7 Project Scale and Estimated GHG Emission Reductions or Removals .......................11 1.8 Description of the Project Activity ................................................................................12 1.9 Project Location ..........................................................................................................16 1.10 Conditions Prior to Project Initiation .........................................................................17 1.11 Compliance with Laws, statutes and other regulatory frameworks ...........................25 1.12 Ownership and Other Programs ..............................................................................28 1.13 Additional Information Relevant to the Project .........................................................29 2 APPLICATION OF THE METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................... 30 2.1 Title and Reference of Methodology ...........................................................................30 2.2 Applicability of Methodology ........................................................................................30 2.3 Project Boundary ........................................................................................................30 2.4 Baseline Scenario .......................................................................................................33 2.5 Additionality ................................................................................................................70 2.6 Methodology Deviations ..............................................................................................75 3 QUANTIFICATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS AND REMOVALS ............................ 75 3.1 Baseline Emissions .....................................................................................................75 3.2 Project Emissions .......................................................................................................85 3.3 Leakage ......................................................................................................................90 3.4 Summary of GHG Emission Reductions and Removals ..............................................91 4 MONITORING .................................................................................................................................... 95 4.1 Data and parameters are available at validation .........................................................95 4.2 Data and parameters monitored ..................................................................................96 4.3 Description of Monitoring Plan ....................................................................................97 5 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ............................................................................................................. 99 6 STAKEHOLDER COMMENTS .......................................................................................................... 99 7 ADDITIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INFORMATION FOR CCB ............................. 103 8 ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION – FOR CCB ............................................................. 105 9 ADDITIONAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FOR CCB ............................................................. 109 3 PROJECT DESCRIPTION Acronyms ACT - Amazon Conservation Team AFOLU - Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use CCBS - Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards FUNAI - National Indigenous Foundation FUNASA - National Health Foundation FUNBIO - Brazilian Biodiversity Fund GHG - Greenhouse gases HCV - High Conservation Value IDESAM – Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas INCRA - National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform INPE - National Institute for Space Research IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature LULUCF - Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry MMA – Brazilian Ministry of the Environment; PCFS - Suruí Forest Carbon Project PES - Payment for Environmental Services PRODES - Program for Monitoring Deforestation in the Amazon REDD+ - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation coupled with conservation efforts, sustainable forest management and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. SFB – Brazilian Forest Service TISS - Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change VCS - Verified Carbon Standard 4 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1 PROJECT DETAILS 1.1 Summary Description of the Project Responsible for most of the greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions in Brazil, the forestry sector accounts for 58% of national emissions1. Most of those emissions originate from deforestation in the Amazon. Although there has been recent significant reductions in deforestation rates, forest loss in Amazonia has been occurring at an average rate of 0.56%/yr (1,762,995 ha / year) in the last ten years. From 2000 to 2009, more than 17.6 million hectares were destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon2, which corresponds to an area the size of Uruguay. The State of Rondônia (RO), which contains most of the Suruí Forest Carbon Project (PCFS) and where the Suruí have economic access and relationships with stakeholders, is one of the states that lost the most forest in the Brazilian Amazon. More than 2.4 million hectares were deforested between 2000 and 2009, which accounts for approximately 14% of total deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon3 during this period. The other fraction of the PCFS is located in the State of Mato Grosso which accounted for 36% of Amazon deforestation during the same period. The Paiter Suruí indigenous people inhabit the northeast of Rondônia, a region that comprises the western flank of a long corridor of indigenous lands surrounded by consolidated agricultural areas. Surui contact with non-Indians first occurred in 1969. The construction of the BR-364 highway that connects Cuiabá (MT) and Porto Velho (RO) in 1968 opened about 240,000 km2 of land in Rondônia and started a migration process that brought about 65,000 people per year between 1980 and 1983 and even rose to over 160,000 migrants per year between 1984 and 19864. In 1975, the National Institute of Colonization