Ministère des Eaux, Forêts,

Chasse & Pêche

Sangha Tri-national and Central Africa Republic:Republic:

A Three-Phased Concept for Carbon Finance and PES Based Sustainable Finance

Andre KAMDEM TOHAM, PhDRegional DirectorConservation

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Sangha Tri-National Landscape

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MEFCPEDzanga-Sangha Protected Areas

Special Reserve3408 Km²(Cat. IUCN VI)

Community Hunting Zone

National Park 1.253 Km² (Cat. IUCN II)

buffer zone

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� Poaching

� A lingering threat to the integrity of the core reserve area are two existing timber concessions – currently inactive but subject to rekindling of operations at any time.

� Challenges

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� The Long term challenges for the Sangha Tri-National Landscape conservation & many other Congo Basin forest landscapes will depend on achieving the appropriate balance of land uses that is based on true and accurate valuation of “natural assets” when weighed against alternative development options – calculated on both short and long term time scales/Cost Opportunity

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� One of the immediate challenge is building the capacity and infrastructure to generate market-based carbon instruments and to ensure the integrity of long-term investment in rural areas. This

� Challenges (Cont‘)

to ensure the integrity of long-term investment in rural areas. This includes improved land-tenure and administrative systems, the capacity to measure and monitor changes in the amount of terrestrial carbon over time on a transparent and internationally acceptable basis, foreign investment safeguards, consultation with affected communities and ensuring that the benefits of the investment are received by those that earn them.

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Sangha Tri-national Three-Phased Concept

for Carbon Finance and PES Based Sustainable Finance

Phase 1Phase 1: Focus on the Dzanga Sangha Reserve (Core Area)

Phase 2Phase 2: Focus on the : Focus on the Sangha TriSangha Tri--national Landscapenational Landscape

Phase 3Phase 3: E: Extend the system of carbon monitoring, accounting and reporting –and financial compensation for reducing emissions and preserving or enhancing natural terrestrial carbon stocks to a national scale

�Determine the climate mitigation potential of eliminating future logging activities within the core reserve:

�Conduct an accurate professional assessment of existing carbon stocks and an estimate of the climate mitigation benefits, measured in

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stocks and an estimate of the climate mitigation benefits, measured in tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) in reduced GHG emissions from elimination of commercial timber extraction operation within the core Reserve

�This will involve the establishment of an “historical baseline” of recent past timber extraction and the associated “collateral damage” to natural carbon stocks (vegetation, soil), to freshwater supplies, and to biodiversity (e.g. from market hunting and other illegal activities).

�Based on this assessment a “market prospectus” will be developed to document the potential emissions reductions benefits (and their associated “market” value).

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�This will then be discussed with potential investors interested to achieve authentic and verifiable GHG emissions reductions that meet high standards of authenticity in terms of verifiable emissions reductions and in terms of verifiable social and environmental co-benefits.

�This means that local stakeholder must have a prominent role in both the project design and in terms of project implementation.

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�A conservative estimate of potential revenues from CO2e emissions reductions that could be achieved by permanently eliminating business-as-usual timber extraction operations from the core reserve are on the order of $ 3 million from direct timber extraction over a 5 year period and an additional $10 million per year from eliminating collateral damage to forests, vegetation and soil carbon stocks due to B-A-U logging operations. Total value of Phase 1: Approximately $55 million.

�The overall goal of Phase 2 is to leverage carbon finance to “reward” improvements in forest management practices that meet the standards of

Phase 2: Expanding the zone of carbon-finance investment to the

full landscape.

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�(1) preservation of high conservation values;

�(2) reduced emissions from introduction of techniques such as Reduced Impact Logging and other modifications of operations (e.g. road building practices, etc); and,

�(3) bringing production forestry operations within the domain of Forest Stewardship Council Certification, and the Green Carbon Standards for climate-based compensation.

Phase 3 of this initiative is designed to go beyond the “landscape” level to develop an “early action” model of terrestrial carbon management – within the forest domain – at a national scale.

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