Typical area to be reforested in Pichincha PDD

To make this all possible, MCF has organized various landowners neighboring our Bird Sanctuaries and/or in BirdLife International designated Important Bird Areas to reforest for carbon sequestration. This is native species reforestation on private lands in disadvantaged communities where the jobs created are greatly appreciated.

With CarbonNeg we now put this inventory up for sale, $10.49 the metric ton or tCO2e (metric tons of CO2 equivalent, 2204 pounds) or $9.49 the 'short'/US ton (2000 pounds).

Our first Project Design Document in Pichincha province includes 300 hectares (750 acres) in and around three Birdlife International Important Bird Areas. Our second Project Design Document representes 475 hectares in Imbabura province and also is located between three IBAs! There is a great deal of information on both of these projects available for download in pdf format from menu above. All told these projects represent roughly 325,000 tCO2e in 20 year offsets and we look forward to your questions, comments and purchase!

MCF employee Miguel Vera laying out a reforestation area that is now a agro-forestry shade coffee and mixed fruit plantation.

All carbon sequestration projects must address issues of land elegibility, project additionality, leakage and permanence, and we do so following the "Simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies for small-scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism implemented on grasslands or croplands AR-AMS0001, Version 05." This is an approved methodology of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board who administer this part of the climate change mitigation strategies set forth in the Kyoto Protocol.

Our projects, "Conservation, Forest Connectivity and Associative Carbon Sale In and Around Three Important Bird Areas of Northwestern Ecuador; CDM-AR-SSC-PDD version 02: April, 2009" and "Reforestation & Ecological Recuperation of Degraded Lands in the Mira River Watershed, Imbabura, Ecuador CDM-AR-SSC-PDD version 02: October, 2009" were created with financial assistance from the Flemish Fund for Tropical Forests (government of Flanders) and Conservation International, Ecuador. These are small scale projects as defined by the International Panel on Climate Change and we have designed them to comply with both the Verified Carbon Standard and the Carbon, Community and Biodiversity standards, CCB. We plan to proceed with third party project verification once funding allows.

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This website was not financed by the Flemish Fund for Tropical Forests, rather, directly by MCF, and all opinions and material on site belong to MCF and its members.

Projects represented in this part of the website are being developed with financial support from the Flemish Fund for Tropical Forests. This fund is jointly administered by the Agency for Nature and Forests (ANB) of the Ministry of Environment, Nature and Energy of the Flemish Community and by the Belgian foundation Groenhart vzw.

Opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the position of the Ministry of the Flemish Community nor those of Groenhart vzw.