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Forest Carbon is an Indonesian-based environmental consulting rm that provides technical services to REDD project developers and stakeholders. Its team

o experts has extensive experience in Southeast Asia and Arica in orestry, GIS/remote sensing, and environmental policy. Its oce is located in Jakarta.

REDD Project DeveloPment 

 An environmental services frm that has  proven experience developing REDD projects under the voluntary markets inIndonesia.

The conservation o threatened natural orests, the reorestation o 

degraded orests and restoration o tropical peatlands can play a

signifcant role in mitigating climate change.

Forest Carbon is an Indonesian-based rm that addresses

the need or a regionally ocused team capable o providing

technical services or carbon orestry projects in tropicalrainorest countries.

Our team o experts work directly with clients on all aspects

o project development, including the ollowing: carbon

baseline measurement, project design, implementation, and

the monitoring, reporting and validation o carbon orestry

projects or the emerging voluntary and compliance carbon

markets.

Forest Carbon has a proven track record advising major

international environmental organizations and private

project developers on REDD projects in Indonesia.

Project Development Process1. Conduct Feasibility Study: Assess additionality, leakage,

and permanence. Develop preliminary estimates o Green

House Gases (GHG) baseline emissions and potential

revenue ows.

2. Defne Project Boundaries.

3. Estimate Carbon Stocks: Conduct eld or aerial biomass

surveys.

4. Calculate Baseline GHG emissions: Apply computer

modeling to predict uture deorestation and emission

rates.

5. Develop monitoring plan or assessing degradation

and deorestation.

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Forest Carbon has advised private project developers and conservation

organizations on the development o pioneering REDD Projects

in Indonesia giving it unprecedented insight into the process o 

developing a project rom start to fnish.

Advising the Zoological Society o London

  Through the Berbak Carbon Initiative (BCI), the Zoological

Society o London (ZSL) seeks to enhance the protection

and management o large tracts o Sumatran Tiger habitat.ZSL aims to achieve this by generating carbon credits to

avoid degradation and deorestation while mitigating

emissions rom peat destruction. Forest Carbon has been

advising on next steps and providing technical support

or ZSL on the early development stages o the BCI

since mid-2009. To date, Forest Carbon has undertaken

preliminary eld work and completed a project easibility

study, established a GHG emission baseline, modeled

uture deorestation with IDRISI Land Change Modeler, and

assessed uture climatic benets o the project.

Infnite Earth’s Rimba Raya Project

Forest Carbon is providing technical assistance to

InniteEarth (IE) and its partners on the establishment o the

Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project under the Voluntary

Carbon Standard (VCS). Forest Carbon has worked with IE

on all aspects o developing this large-scale REDD project

since 2008. It has conducted a ull carbon stock assessment

encompassing aerial photography, ground surveys, and

satellite imagery analysis. Forest Carbon’s team also trained

Orangutan Foundation International employees to conduct

uture ground carbon stock assessments which will be

perormed as part o the ongoing carbon monitoring o 

the project area. Forest Carbon has developed the technical

sections o the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity

Alliance (CCBA) Standard Project Design Document and

wrote the entire Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) project

document. Lastly, Forest Carbon has assisted IE with policy

and bureaucratic support at the national and district levels.

Carbon StocksSenior Forest Carbon staf members have more than 20

years o experience in assessing timber volumes and

biomass in tropical orests. We are experts at designing

statistically robust biomass sampling plans that utilize either

ground-based plots or aerial methods. Our aerial method o 

assessing carbon stocks has been validated by the VCS and

ofers a much aster and cost efective method or assessing

large remote orests. Forest Carbon also has experience in

estimating below-ground carbon stocks in peat swamp

orests, and has applied scientically valid methods or

sampling peat depth and bulk density.

GHG Baseline Emissions

Predicting uture emissions rom deorestation and

degradation o orests can be complicated and depends

on the REDD project type. Historical emission rates can be

misleading at times in terms o modelling uture emissions.

  Thereore, extensive knowledge o the area is essential in

predicting uture rates. Forest Carbon specialists have been

working in Indonesia or more than 12 years. Additionally,

our specialists are trained in the leading sotware models

that predict the extent o deorestation based on real

threats.

Clients List

• USAID Southeast Regional Mission

• Zoological Society o London

• Fauna and Flora International

•  The Forest Trust

• Conservation International

• Innite Earth - Rimba Raya

• Orangutan Foundation UK 

•  The Nature Conservancy

• Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation

• CircleForest Ltd

F O R E S T C A R B O N

Jl. Kemang Selatan VIII, No. 5A, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia

Website: http://www.orest-carbon.org/