The Shabunda region of the Democratic Republic of Congo is located deep in the green heart of Africa. It is a place that you probably have never heard of, and it is a location that is extremely difficult to get to. It is here where Indigenous Peoples living in the forest, with your support, can also protect the forest. The DRC rainforest is second only to the Amazon, but it is still largely intact. This project seeks to protect the Congo. The pricing is based on the social cost of carbon, also reflecting the reality that offsets based on direct measurement pose less risk than estimation-based offsets and that carbon pricing levels must support vibrant and resilient carbon markets. In this offering, offtake agreements are available for the 2018 to 2022 Shabunda offsets.
The 2018-2022 Directly Measured NET tCO2 Vintages will be released in Q3, 2024.
Approximately 18,000,000 offsets are projected (subject to change).
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The offsets are determined by NASA satellites that directly measure CO2. The data are qualified and produced by NASA with extensive quality and assurance management including third-party validation. The satellites and data employed to determine net CO2 for the project area are the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS, swath width of 2,330 km) high throughput CO2 (~1 million measurements day-1) and overlapping spectroscopic column CO2 data (Orbital Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2), cross-track swath width of 10 km). The OCO-2 data provide net carbon exchange capturing seasonal biomass burning across the project area, a key feature of deforestation. The project goal is to demonstrate reductions in deforestation and increases in net ecosystem exchange. Contact Planet Alpha for more information and volume pricing, at info@planetalphaforest.earth, www.planetalphaforest.earth.