Amazon Forest Conservation Project
Location: Brazil
Project type: Forest Conservation and Avoided Deforestation
Standard: Verified Carbon Standard or Climate Action Reserve will be used. The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance standard is also under consideration.
Verification/Validation: tbd. The project is in the initial development phases.
Environmental Benefits
- Reduce carbon dioxide emissions
- Mitigate climate change
- Conserve habitat for endangered and threatened species
- Improve local water quality
- Retain top soil and control erosion
Community Benefits
- Establish alternative sources of income and employment opportunities
- Potential for local ecotourism benefiting the area population
Project Description
In the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon Forest Conservation Project established by Carbonfund.org and numerous local and international partners will protect up to millions of acres from slash-and-burn forest clearing and prevent tens of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. This project will also provide essential ecosystem services such as erosion control, water cycling, filtration and storage, nutrient recycling, and habitat for thousands of native Amazonian animal and plant species.
Avoided deforestation projects are critical because about 20 percent of global warming is attributed to deforestation, which reduces the Earth’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. Moreover, fallen trees decompose and release methane, a heat-trapping gas about 23 times more potent than CO2.
The Amazon is also home to hundreds of indigenous communities, which face threats from deforestation and land conversion for cattle grazing, timber harvesting and resulting road construction.
This description will be updated as the project develops.
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