Empowering Futures
Transforming Lives
Empowering Futures
Transforming Lives
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The Opportunity Is Compelling
About ecoCarbon
ecoCarbon Capital Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, is dedicated to investing proprietary and third-party capital to build Asia’s largest carbon credit offset portfolio. Investing at scale, ecoCarbon utilizes partnerships and collaboration to produce significant value for local communities, investors and international carbon credit buyers.
At ecoCarbon Capital, we're not just investing - we're the architects of a sustainable, equitable, and thriving world. Our financial resources are the catalyst for transformative change.
Project Structure
Project Caraga Milestones
2023
- Jobs created: 5
- Commenced negotiations across indigenous areas
- Biomass baseline data gathering begins
2024
- Identification of forest protection areas with indigenous communities
- Commenced signing of Memorandums of Agreement with Indigenous People
2025
- Jobs Created: 206
- Deployment of 120 forest rangers from the indigenous communities
- Verra Project Document Design listing
The ecoCarbon Vision
Near-Term (by 2030)
Place 200,000 hectares out of 960,000 ha of critical rainforest under protection and transform economic opportunities for over 94,000 people.
Mid-Term (by 2040)
Establish a reliable, multi-decade carbon credit revenue stream while continuing to safeguard biodiversity and to empower the communities.
Long-Term (by 2050)
Project Caraga is an established scalable model for sustainable land use and climate action, driving positive
impact for generations to come.
Understanding Carbon Credits And ecoCarbon's Role
What are Carbon Credits?
Carbon credits are permits that represent the right to emit a certain amount of greenhouse gases, typically one metric ton of CO₂ or equivalent gases. They are used as a tool to help reduce global emissions by allowing companies or individuals to offset their own carbon footprint by investing in projects that reduce or remove emissions elsewhere.
Why are Carbon Credits important?
Carbon credits are important because they provide a flexible market-based approach to reducing greenhouse gases. They incentivize the development of sustainable projects, promote clean energy, and help organizations and individuals take responsibility for their environmental impact, ultimately contributing to the fight against climate change.
How are Carbon Credits verified?
Carbon Credits are verified through a rigorous process to ensure they are credible and have environmental integrity. This process involves:
Project Design and Planning: The project developer designs a project aimed at reducing or removing greenhouse gases, such as forest preservation, reforestation, renewable energy, or energy efficiency initiatives.
Baseline Establishment: A baseline scenario is established to determine what emissions would have occurred without the project. This helps quantify the actual emission reductions achieved.
Monitoring and Data Collection: The project continuously monitors its activities and collects data to measure emissions reductions or removals accurately.
Third-Party Auditing: An independent, accredited auditor reviews the project’s data, methodology, and implementation to verify that the claimed reductions are real, additional, and permanent.
Certification: Once verified, the project is certified under internationally recognized standards. ecoCarbon Capital is listed with Verra, and its Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) program, which is the world's most widely used greenhouse gas crediting scheme. ecoCarbon Capital’s Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) are currently undergoing the verification process. This certification guarantees that the carbon credits are credible, real, and can be confidently traded or sold in the global market.
Issuance of Credits: Certified credits are issued and recorded in a public registry, ensuring transparency and preventing double counting.
This verification process ensures that each carbon credit represents a genuine, measurable reduction in greenhouse gases, supporting credible climate action.
Who are the local communities we impact?
The project will be implemented in the communities of Manobo, Mamanwa, and the Higaonon Tribes in the 10 CADTs of Agusan del Norte, Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur. These communities are the recognized rights holders of ancestral domains. Despite having control over vast resources, the indigenous communities continue to live impoverished lives owing to the absence of opportunities, the lack of social services such as education and health, and the continued practice of subsistence agriculture.
What impact do Carbon Credits have on these local communities?
Carbon Credits mean funds available to the indigenous peoples (IP) to use to address development needs and challenges that have been identified in their Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plans. When Carbon Credits are transformed into actual financial benefits for the IP communities, it can used to establish water systems, or improve health facilities, or fund the education of IP children and youth. Gradually, their quality of life will change. And when Carbon Credits also come with technical and logistical support from the project developer, this will significantly increase the capacity of the communities to create alternative livelihoods.
How do Carbon Credit projects impact biodiversity conservation?
Carbon Credit initiatives often deliver significant biodiversity gains alongside emissions reductions. Reforestation projects, for instance, restore degraded or barren landscapes into functioning forests, creating, or re-creating, habitats where native plants and animals can thrive while simultaneously sequestering carbon and helping to moderate global temperatures. Likewise, Carbon Credits generated from renewable-energy installations displace electricity produced from fossil fuels, cutting the air and water pollution that once drove wildlife away. As local ecosystems recover, species are able to return and re-establish healthy populations.
About Project Caraga
Project Caraga
Project Caraga, the Nature-based Solutions initiative, generates premium carbon credits by conserving and restoring tropical rainforests and promoting sustainable land management in the three provinces of Caraga Region, on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines.
By empowering indigenous communities at scale, we ensure the highest quality carbon credits globally over a 25 year period.
Ancestral Domains
A Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) is a legal document issued by the Philippine government that formally recognizes the collective ownership of Indigenous Peoples over their ancestral lands.
Covering 200,000 hectares in total, Project Caraga is one of the biggest forest conservation and community initiatives in the Philippines with agreements with 10 CADTS to produce carbon credits, and a potential of 7 more.
Project Caraga Core Pillars
Climate
Generate premium carbon credits through sustainable practices that engage local communities in forest conservation and restoration efforts to combat climate change effectively.
Community Engagement
Promote local livelihoods by involving indigenous communities in project
implementation, ensuring their rights and enhancing socio-economic conditions in the Caraga Region.
Biodiversity Conservation
Protect and restore natural habitats, increasing biodiversity while preventing illegal logging and unsustainable agricultural practices through effective land management strategies.
The Challenges
Mining Devastation
Mining in Caraga poses major challenges, including environmental damage like deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution. It threatens biodiversity and harms local communities through displacement, health risks, and loss of livelihoods. Forests and land are degraded, affecting ecosystems and climate.
Endangered Animals
Species such as the Philippine Eagle face extinction due to habitat loss and environmental degradation. Protecting these animals is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ecological balance.
Deforestation
The Caraga region faces significant deforestation caused by logging, agriculture, mining, and infrastructure development. This leads to loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, and impacts the climate.
Indigenous Poverty & Ill Health
Indigenous communities often grapple with poverty and health issues, exacerbated by limited access to resources and economic opportunities. Alternative livelihoods through conservation are crucial to empowering these communities and improving their well being.
Community Voices: Impact Of
ecoCarbon's Initiatives
Hear from those we serve
"This project will have a significant impact because it can help prevent deforestation, keep our mountains green, and protect our rivers from degradation.
It is a valuable initiative, especially now when we are experiencing the consequences of climate change and can no longer stop the increasing natural disasters."
Datu Revise Mandahinog, Chieftain, CADT 252, Municipality of Nasipit, Agusan del Norte
"This has been a great help to us, especially for the youth to understand the importance of the Earth, particularly the environment.
This is not just for us now, but for the generations to come. I hope this project continues and that it can help many more indigenous peoples like ours."
Jeraldine Saldon, Project Community Coordinator from the Manobo community of CADT 239, Bislig City, Surigao del Sur, Philippines
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