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Challenges and Opportunities in Development of a
REDD Project
Stanford University Feb. 11-12, 2009
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Summary

• Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ) and Buffer
  Zone
• El Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo
  de Áreas Naturales Cordillera Azul CIMA
  Cordillera Azul
• The REDD Opportunity
• Project Design Challenges
• Project Design Advances
• Lessons Learned To Date

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1. Cordillera Azul National Park and Buffer Zone
Created May 21, 2001
The Park covers over 1.35 million ha between the
Huallaga and Ucayali watersheds, distributed over
four departments The Buffer Zone covers over
2.6 million ha., with 225 communities and
approximately 250,000 inhabitants
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1. Cordillera Azul National Park and Buffer Zone

• One of Perus most biologically diverse National
  Parks
• Contains some of the last remaining unbroken
  elevational gradients in the Andes
• Contains 16 evaluated habitat types, from lush
  lowland tropical forests to stunted, specialized
  vegetation on mountain tops
• Evidence of non-contacted indigenous groups in
  the south-eastern section of the Park

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2. CIMA Cordillera Azul

• Formed in July 2002, directly identifying itself
  with protection of the PNCAZ.
• In 2003, signed an agreement with INRENA to
  support management of the PNCAZ.
• Since August 2008 has been granted full
  administrative control of the Park.

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2. CIMA Cordillera Azul

• CIMAs Multi-Component Strategy for protecting
  the PNCAZ
• Protection Created fully functioning Park
  management infrastructure
• Zoning, titling and land use stabilization in the
  Buffer Zone
• Promotion of ecologically-compatible development
  and economic activities in Buffer Zone and larger
  region
• Environmental Extension and Education Activities
  with Buffer Zone

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3. REDD Opportunity
When developing sustainable funding options for
the Park, CIMA Cordillera Azul identified the
opportunity to develop a REDD project with
technical support from The Field Museum and
financial assistance from the Exelon Corporation.
Deforestation 1996 - 2006
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3. REDD Opportunity

• Opportunities for a REDD Project in the Park
• Interest of CCX and support from the Field Museum
  and Exelon Corporation
• Rapidly developing REDD mechanisms
• A well-managed Park with intact forest,
  extraordinary biodiversity, and a management
  committed to benefiting local communities
• On-going deforestation threat to Park
• Abundant environmental and socio-economic
  information
• A successful Park monitoring system ICC and SIG
• Potential to use the Park as a pilot carbon
  project and use lessons learned to develop a
  series of REDD projects in Peru
• Authority granted by Government to CIMA through
  its 20-year administrative contract to develop
  and market carbon credits, with any resulting
  revenues supporting management of the Park

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3. REDD Opportunity
deforestation
2000
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3. REDD Opportunity
deforestation
2003
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3. REDD Opportunity
deforestation
roads
2020 (Projected)
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4. REDD Project Design Challenges
1. Prove additionality of a protected area
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4. REDD Project Design Challenges
2. Establish a baseline to determine
vulnerability to deforestation
Over 80 of the PNCAZ has high or very high
vulnerability to deforestation Over 1.2 million
ha could be developed into a carbon project
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4. REDD Project Design Challenges
3. Establish a Reference Area and Leakage Belt
Suitability map for deforestation 2006- 2011.
PNCAZ and new reference area (Winrock)
PNCAZ, leakage belt (buffer zone) and first
reference area
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5. Project Design Advances

• Current Project Status
• All necessary information to develop a REDD
  project
• Willingness of CCX to move forward in the
  voluntary carbon market
• Project document being developed for CCBA (with
  goal of Gold Standard)
• CIMAs team now trained in measuring carbon
  stocks
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5. Project Design Advances

• But.
• GEOMOD analysis limitations are not fully
  reflecting local realities and calculating
  reliable deforestation inside Park if current
  management activities stopped due to lack of
  funding.
• Protection Paradox past 6 years have been
  successful in stopping deforestation, but efforts
  are dependent on current funding, which will
  decrease in next 2-3 years. If REDD project does
  not provide funding, many management activities
  may stop.
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Lago del Mundo Perdido rodeado de bosque primario
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SECTOR PONASA Valle alto
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SECTOR PONASA Valle medio
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SECTOR PONASA Valle bajo
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Limite de la Zona de amortiguamiento del Parque,
cerca a Picota
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6. Lessons Learned

• Enormous potential and opportunity for REDD
  projects in Perus protected areas
• Need analytical models that better reflect local
  realities and generate credible results on past,
  present and future threats
• Essential to have ample biodiversity and
  socio-economic information for protect areas and
  surrounding regions
• REDD standards need to better support protected
  areas and calculate the real pressures from
  deforestation and degradation, regardless of
  legal status
• Necessary to build protected area management
  capacity to improve local communities quality of
  life and implement and monitor REDD projects

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Lucia Ruiz Ostoic Lruiz_at_cima.org.pe www.cima.org.p
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