Pre-feasibility study for a CDM-AR project in the Cochabamba ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT IDEA......................................................................................... 2
2. DETERMINING PROJECT BOUNDARIES................................................................................ 3
3. BASELINE FORMULATION ........................................................................................................ 5
3.1. ACTUAL LAND USE AND................................................................................................................. 5
3.2. TREND OF LAND USE CHANGE........................................................................................................ 6
3.3. ACTUAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION AND TREND........................................................................ 9
3.3.1. Social structures ........................................................................................................................ 9
3.3.2. Incomes per family/sources of income...................................................................................... 9
3.3.3. Knowledge of the project and previous participation in decision-making................................ 9
3.4. BASELINE DESCRIPTION.................................................................................................................. 9
3.5. BASELINE QUANTIFICATION ......................................................................................................... 11
4. GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION POTENTIAL ................................................................... 13
4.1. LAND SUITABILITY MAP FOR SELECTED TREE SPECIES ................................................................ 13
4.2. PRELIMINARY ESTIMATION OF CARBON EFFECTS......................................................................... 17
4.3. NET CARBON EFFECTS OF THE PROJECT ....................................................................................... 19
4.4. LEAKAGE ...................................................................................................................................... 21
5. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS .............................................................................................................. 22
5.1 COSTS.................................................................................................................................................... 22
5.1.1 Infrastructure, machinery and equipments .............................................................................. 22
5.1.2 Establishment and management costs ..................................................................................... 22
5.1.3 Thinning .................................................................................................................................. 23
5.1.4. Other operating costs (including taxes if any)......................................................................... 23
5.2. DATA ON REFORESTATION REVENUES ................................................................................................. 23
5.3. LAND PRICES / OPPORTUNITY COSTS OF LAND .................................................................................... 25
5.4. FINANCIALS.......................................................................................................................................... 25
6. INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES ........................................................................................................... 28
6.1.1. Environmental policy .............................................................................................................. 28
6.1.3. land use policy......................................................................................................................... 28
6.1.4. Climate policy ......................................................................................................................... 29
6.2.1 POLITICAL DIVISION...................................................................................................................... 29
6.2.4. LAND TENURE............................................................................................................................... 29
6.2.5. LEGALLY AND SOCIALLY ACCEPTED ASSOCIATIONS PRESENT IN THE REGION, WHICH MIGHT
INTERACT WITH THE PROJECT...................................................................................................................... 30
7. SOCIAL ISSUES ............................................................................................................................ 31
7.3. PLANNING OF SOCIAL PROCESSES ......................................................................................................... 32
7.4. LEAKAGE AVOIDING ACTIVITIES........................................................................................................... 33
8. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ....................................................................................................... 35
8.1. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS................................................................................................................ 35
8.2. ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS .......................................................................................................... 36
9. BIBLIOGRAPHY........................................................................................................................... 37
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