Green Giant Venture Fund

                      

                               Carbon Credit  Projects

 

 

 

                                 Mata Atlantica REDD and Reforestation Project

 

The purpose of this project is to protect sadly what is left ( 1,233,875 km2 in total ) of this endangered coastal rainforest. Currently we are establishing the Carbon sequestration and Nitrogen fixation values of all native species. Starting this year (2010) we will be conducting and funding research to document the environmental symbiosis that exists between the Mata Atlantica ecosystem and the local marine ecosystem. Initially the focus will be on over 378,000 hectares of coastal rainforest in Mangaratiba, Angra and Parati. This project will include the participation of the Secretary of Agriculture .The following land owners  have volunteered sites to be studied as pilot projects under the developing UNFCCC-REDD guidelines.

 

1) Almeida 60 hectare property in Parati designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

2) Voss 245 hectare property in Angra designated as a UNESCO Biosphere.

 

This project aims not only to provide protection to the Mata Atlantica forests, but also to assist in the development of REDD guidelines, and to further understand the value of the marine ecosystem carbon sinks. In the event that the REDD guidelines are not established this project will revert to Reforestation by use additional native species that have a high CO2 sequestration rate.  We are currently seeking finacial contributions and offering direct investment in the form of future Carbon Credit returns. We welcome all scientific and biological data contributions and maintain an open sharing research policy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angra dos Reis: 1

 

Reforestation with native species of the Atlantic Rainforest 

Various areas totaling 90,000 hectares of the Atlantic Rainforest that has been occupied by agriculture or other degrading activities. To restore the previous condition that most closely matches the original landscape. In this sense make use of the techniques and management systems that can fit the recovery, especially since they offer Atlantic Forest area and potential sequestration and accumulation of carbon.

 

LIST OF SPECIES TO BE USED
Common Name Scientific Name Quantities
Chandelier Erythrina speciosa 4000
Jerivá Syagrus romanzoffiana 4000
Inga edulis Inga 5000
Yellow Ipe Tabebuia chrysotricha 5000
False Barbatimão 5500 Cassia leptophylla
Pink Tabebuia Ipe 3500
Pterocarpus violaceus Aldrago 4000
Mirindiba Lafoensia glyptocarpa 3500
Embauba Cecropia pachystachya 5000
Embauba silver Cecropia hololeuca 4000
Euterpe edulis Juçara 5000
Tibouchina granulosa Quaresmeira 4000
Slinker Senna macranthera 5500
Bico-Depato Rosewood Machaerium aculeatum 3500
Pata de vaca Bauhinia forficata 5000
Caesalpiniaceae Caesalpinia DC winter periods. 3500 

 

Estimated Carbon Credit value 320,000,000 BRL

 

 

 

 

Angra dos Reis: 2

 

REFORESTATION PROJECT AND RECOVERY OF DEGRADED AREA IN ANGRA

The area chosen to be awarded the reforestation project is the hill of Alto da Ribeira, which has been awarded the Green Belt project of the Municipal Environment. The Green Belt project was an initiative to help stem the growth of the slopes of the city, where one is built around fences with barbed wire, which marks the beginning of a conservation area.
Today the area is highly degraded, its surface horizon was completely lost in the erosion that occurred on site. It was also observed in field surveys of the practice of burning is likely to burn garbage that may be played on site, a further indication of soil acidity.

 

1 - Completion of a reforestation project for the DAR and Environmental Education and its  approval by the board of Environment of the City;
2 - Payment of ART-Technical Responsibility Certificate;
3 - Purchase and supply of inputs for soil preparation and planting;
4 - Recruitment of team work;
5 - Monitoring and technical supervision of services of project implementation;
6 - Preparation of detailed technical report at the end of the services provided for the accountability of the contractor's services to the MP and other agencies have concluded the TAC. Will be reflected in the proposed project activity and maintenance of the planting area.

 

 

 

Angra: 3

 

 

Voss 245 hectare reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation project.

The first (REDD) pilot project in the city of Angra certified by UNESCO as a Biosphere . This region is protected by the local government as a reserve. The additionality of the REDD project will create double protection for this part of the Matatlantica rain forest.

This property will also contain a Green House (Estufa) that will provide native Matatlanitc species to previously degraded areas in Angra,Parati, and Mangaratiba.

 

 

 

 

 

Africa: 1

 

Aforestation project of 42,500 acres in Sierra Leone

Aforestation as Renewable source of Wood for Industrial use: The objective of the project activity is the Aforestation of 42,500 acres of Kiri Tree: Japanese Empress Tree, Paulownia located on degraded lands in the ecological zone of Sudan Savannah. The project looks forward to recover degraded land, and develop sustainable economic activities, as (4-7 year) pulp, paper, (8 year) lightweight hardwood lumber, clean coal production, Biofuel production, wood harvesting and improving the community’s standard of living. The project will benefice more than 10 villages and 3500 people in annexes of this community and is conceived using easy-to-replicate technologies and promoting the intensive use of local labor, assuring that the biggest part of the benefits will remain in the community. The project will reduces the risk of negative impacts on biodiversity and increasing the success possibilities of the proposed project activity. Proposed project activities:The establishment of plantations as a renewable source of wood supplies for energy to meet the industrial needs is expected to result in twofold benefits: (i) generation of carbon stocks and of GHG removals by sinks additional to those that would occur in the absence of such plantations, and (ii) substitution of sustainable sources of biomass in place of fossil fuels and non-renewable biomass, which contribute to GHG emissions in Africa.

 

Estimated Carbon Credit value 410,000,000 USD

Estimated timber harvest value 700,000,000 USD

 

 

 

Africa: 2

 

Aforestation project of 70,000 hectares in Guinea Africa

Aforestation as Renewable source of Wood for Industrial use: The objective of the project activity is the Aforestation of 70,000 acres of Kiri Tree: Japanese Empress Tree, Paulownia located on degraded lands in the ecological zone of Guinea Savannah. Kiri plantations are established in an area of 70,000 hectares. The land use under the plantations is expected to cover a 50 years period, with the first harvest taking place after 3-4 years, followed by two successive periods of 7-years rotations through coppicing. Taking into account the annual planting over the first 7-year period starting from 2010, the project will have duration of approximately 50 years (2010-2060). The project adopts a single 50-year crediting period and uses the tCER approach to account for the net anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks from the project.

 

Estimated Carbon Credit value 800,000,000 USD

Estimated timber harvest value

 

 

 

Vanuatu: 1

 

Reforestation project of 20,000 acres in Makula Island

Reforest 1,000 acres

Reforest 2,000 acres per year -years 2 -8

Harvest early stage (Year 4) trees for Eco Resort log cabins

Harvests annual -Year 8 -Est. $400,000

Harvests continual annual harvests under 7 year cycles

$160,000,000 Carbon Credit Contract

$59,000,000 Land holdings over 3.5 km Beach Front (for future Eco Resort est. 2012)

$300,000,000First Timber Harvest