Deadline: 1 October 2021
South Pole is offering land-owners, community groups, conservation organisations, and other groups who would benefit from climate finance, an opportunity to develop their nature-based carbon projects.
As a truly global environmental company, with over 350 experts in 18 global offices, South Pole is uniquely positioned to support you in adding a sustainable and supplementary source of income to fund your nature-based projects.
Opportunity for Conservation and Restoration projects
South Pole believes Nature-based Solutions (NBS) need to be a central part of the post-COVID green recovery. We are looking to facilitate climate finance to forestry and land-use projects that protect wildlife, empower communities and create sustainable economies.
To be considered projects must meet either of the following minimum requirements:
- Ecosystem protection projects – minimum 10,000 ha of standing forest or larger than 5,000 hectares of carbon rich ecosystems, such as peat land or mangroves.
- Restoration projects – must have the potential to restore at least 1,200 hectares
REDD+ (Forest Protection & Conservation)
- The focus is mid and large scale project areas >10,000 hectares of standing forest); or more than 5,000 hectares in carbon rich environments such as peat or mangroves)
- Has a well defined and existing management plan for the area (or willing to work with others to develop one if they do not have the technical capacity to do so)
- Have well established and positive relationships with communities in the immediate area of the project
General Requirements
- Clear understanding of socioeconomic and biophysical drivers of deforestation
- Demonstrable capacity to address these drivers
- Demonstrable understanding of local and regional ecology
- Land tenure and carbon rights are secured or demonstrable understanding of process to secure
- Please note: Maps of the project area (maps file types: .kml, .kmz, or .shp) are required
Desirable: The activities will create/protect habitat of endangered species
Deadline: 1 October 2021
South Pole is offering land-owners, community groups, conservation organisations, and other groups who would benefit from climate finance, an opportunity to develop their nature-based carbon projects.
As a truly global environmental company, with over 350 experts in 18 global offices, South Pole is uniquely positioned to support you in adding a sustainable and supplementary source of income to fund your nature-based projects.
Opportunity for large-scale nature-based solutions
South Pole believes Nature-based Solutions (NBS) need to be a central part of the post-COVID green recovery. We are able to develop and potentially provide finance to large nature-based climate action projects that protect wildlife, empower communities and create sustainable economies.
To be considered projects must meet either of the following minimum requirements:
- Ecosystem protection projects – minimum 50,000 hectares of standing forest or larger than 7,500 hectares of carbon rich ecosystems, such as peat land or mangrove forest.
- Restoration projects – must have potential to restore at least 500 hectares per year for 10 years
REDD+ (Forest Protection & Conservation)
- The focus is on large scale project areas >50,000 hectares of standing forest; (or more than 7,500 hectares in carbon rich environments such as peat or mangroves)
- Forest management plan has been developed or partner organisation has the capacity to develop one with limited technical support
- Have well established and positive relationships with communities in the immediate area of the project
General Requirements
- Clear understanding of socioeconomic and biophysical drivers of deforestation
- Demonstrable capacity to address these drivers
- Demonstrable understanding of local and regional ecology
- Land tenure and carbon rights are secured or demonstrable understanding of process to secure
- Please note: Maps of the project area (maps file types: .kml, .kmz, or .shp) are required
Desirable: The activities will create/protect habitat of endangered species
Forest Restoration
- Potential to restore at least 500 ha/yr for 10 years
- Demonstrable restoration experience which can be built upon and scaled – minimum 500 ha already under restoration management
- Forest restoration/management plan has been developed or partner organisation has the capacity to develop one with limited technical support
- If the reforestation is in a commercial plantation – would need to either have FSC, or have at least 10% of non-commercial areas for conservation purposes.
- Should not be a monoculture plantation.
- Should be planted with significant proportion of native tree species
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