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Forest Carbon Project in Quirino Province, Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor, Luzon, Philippines

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2003 - 2005: CI - Philippines and ICRAF Philippines collaborated to conduct a feasibility study of forestry carbon projects at Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor (SMBC). . ICRAF - Philippines was commissioned to conduct the carbon stock assessment of the various land uses within proposed forest carbon project site at Sierra Madre Biodiversity Corridor. 2006 - 2007: CI - Philippines established the 20 - hectare pilot area of the forest carbon project in Quirino, a reforestation and an agroforestry farm development. 2008 - 2009: CI - Philippines were able to catalyze a fund donor (moreTrees Inc.) for the forest carbon development of 41 has. Formulated the plan and firmed - up the Memorandum of Agreement among project partners for the forest carbon development. In 2009, prepared 2 Project Design Document (PDD) for the proposed 177 ha following the standard template for Climate Change & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS). The first version (May 2009) of PDD was submitted for validation audit to the Rainforest Alliance (RA) in June 2009 2010: RA conducted reassessment audit of the PDD (revised May 2010), and established that the Project Proponents were able to meet all the required criteria. Validation of PDD is approved on June 17, 2010 under CCB Standards as Gold level.

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