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Mexico
ProArbol
Program and
Climate Change
CONTENT
•Presentation
•Categories and Impact areas
•Stages of ProArbol
•Budget 2007
•Main Goals 2007
•ProArbol and Climate Change
•Conclusions
PRESENTATION
• The social focus in politics by the Mexican Government, can
be framed in the “Vivir Mejor” program.
• “Vivir Mejor” gathers all government actions to channel
them in a same objective, the sustainable human
development, avoiding its dispersion and focusing the
impact in obtaining the greatest benefit from the public
resources invested.
• “Vivir Mejor” incorporates sustainability criteria to social
policies. Recognizes that there is not only a gap from rich to
poor that needs to be covered, but also the gap between
nature and men.
PRESENTATION
Mexico’s forestry program is called ProArbol, started by President
Felipe Calderon, in February 2007.
ProArbol is congruent with the social policies of the program “Vivir
Mejor”.
ProArbol’s objectives are:
Generate development and contribute to the economy from
valuation, conservation, restoration and sustainable production of
forestry resources.
Assistance in diminishing the poverty indexes that exist in most
forestry areas.
Give support to owners and possessors of land forests, for
reforestation and payments for environmental services; these last
ones are destined to cover the opportunity cost of dedicating their
lands to other different activities than silviculture.
Categorías y áreas de impacto del ProÁrbol
Conservation and Restoration
Competitiveness and Production
Sustainable forest
management
Reforestation and
Restoration
Commercial forestry
plantations
Forestry Protection
Environmental Services
Financial support to
competitiveness
Impact Areas
Climate Change
Environmental Improvement
Biodiversity conservation
Employment and Income
Company and development of productive chains
Reducing the forestry imports
Stages of ProArbol
Launch and broadcasting of the callings.
Reception of applications from forest owners.
Resolution of applications in national and state’s
technical commitees.
Advance payment.
Control and following of the activities from beneficiaries.
Final payment.
2007 Budget of ProArbol
Millions of US Dollars
CONCEPT
2007
Subsidies ProArbol Operation Rules
348
Other Subsidies
80
Plant Production
65
El presupuesto (PEF)
44
2008 se incrementó
Environmental Compensation
28
en 1,128.2 millones
Operation, Support and Administrationde pesos (27%)
38
respecto a 2007.
Expenses
Protection against forest fires
Total
603
Principales avances en 2007 del ProÁrbol
ProArbol Conservation and
Restoration
Progress
Reforestation and Restoration (degraded
soil)
645,781 ha.**
Forestry Protection
−Forestry fires (natural forest and tropical
forest)
In relation to 2006
32.6% less number of fires
41.9% less affected areas
−Phytosanitary diagnostic
−Phytosanitary treatment
Environmental services (natural and
tropical forests)
*It includes Commercial Forestry Plantations
663,743 ha.
45,695 ha.
610,000 ha.
** 12% in progress of establishment
ProArbol, Production and
Competitiveness
Progress
Sustainable forestry management
(incorporation)
1.9 million ha.
Sustainable Forestry Development
(Capacitating, equipment, ecotourism,
good management certification and
technical audit)
6.3 million ha.
Reforestation and Restoration
(Degraded soil)
Ecosystem
Plant
Number of plants
Forest and Tropical Forest
Trees
251 million 779 thousand 394
Desert
Bushes and weeds
218 million 870 thousand 707
Total
470 million 650 thousand 101
ProArbol y Climate Change
Mexico is coherent with their international commitments of environmental
protection and has a National Strategy for Climate Change it has establish
opportunities for the vegetation sector and soil use mitigation.
The main objective is to preserve the forestry carbon and reduce the greenhouse gasses
emissions produced by activities related to the soil use, changes in soil use, silviculture,
agriculture and livestock.
There are some established actions in ProArbol:
Conservation of carbon through the Sustainable forestry development,
Retribution of environmental forestry services,
Units for improvement and management,
Forestry sanitation,
Carbon sequestration through:
• Reforestation
• Reforestation with soil restoration
• Commercial plantations
• MDL projects
• Carbon substitution with forestry bio-fuels.
Mexico and CO emmissions
2
The 14% equals to 89,854 Gg (CO2
eq) throw by:
•Change in soil use (10%)
•Lost of organic carbon in the soil
(fires, erosion) and forest
exploitation (4%)
Mitigations through ProArbol
There are direct actions to reduce CO2 emissions in
the forestry sector through ProArbol program.
1. Carbon conservation
– Sustainable Forestry
Development
– Forestry Communitarian
Diligence
– Environmental Services (water,
biodiversity and agro forestry)
– Conservation and restoration of
forestry ecosystems.
2. Carbon capture
– Reforestation
– Commercial plantations
– Benefits for Environmental
services
 Strenght of institutional capacities for the formulation and
implementation of forestry projects of conservation and
carbon sequestration.
 Promotion, development and implementation of forestry
projects in the framework of Mechanisms for a Clean
Development (MDL, in spanish), and direct retributions for
environmental hydrological services and biodiversity
conservation.
 Creation of opportunities for carbon project developments
in the voluntarty market, and from local markets of
retributions from environmental services.
Aid from ProArbol for Climate Change
These are:
1. Creation of projects for carbon caption.
2. Acceptation of policies to grant aid to forestry projects in carbon
caption, and the promotion of rules for the development of a national
market of emissions.
3. Reward for hydrological services and biodiversity conservation.
4. Diligence of the approval letters on the national’s authorities side,
designated in carbon projects.
5. Fortification in technical and organizational capacities for the
creation and execution of carbon caption projects.
ProArbol: MDL projects of Forestation/Reforestation
Objectives
•
Encourage the creation of forestry projects within the MDL framework.
•
Promote the development of technical capacities for the creation of
MDL forestry projects.
•
Incentivize the construction of strategic alliances between suppliers,
NGO’s, education and research institutions and potential buyers.
•
Take advantage of the opportunity that MDL is offering to channelize
international financing resources for the project development.
ProArbol: Reduction of emissions for deforestation and forestry
degradation. (REDD)
From the participation of CONAFOR in different forums and the recent UNFCCC
decision, it has been working in:
1. The preparation of a mechanism for positive incentives to reduce the
emmissions for deforestation and degradation (REDD) of the
framework of CoP/13.
2. Activity incorporation from ProArbol for the generation of carbon credits,
in a national strategy of REDD.
3. Explore a voluntary market of carbon credits based in forestry projects
(we have more than 40 Idea Projects in Development IPD’s).
4. Alternative exploration to incorporate sustainable forestry management
activities and forest conservation to the credit carbon market (Bali’s
Action Plan).
5. Preparation, commercialization and following of the carbon projects
(MDL F/R, REDD, voluntary market, etc.).
BIODIVERSITY PATRIMONIAL FUND
•
In 2006, it was established the Environmental Services Project
between CONAFOR, the World Bank and the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), agreeing in the creation and operation of a
Biodiversity Patrimonial Fund, on the financing support for the
conservation of forestry ecosystems that protect the biodiversity,
in world´s interest locations.
•
The objective is to establish a fund that provides permanent
financing to the conservation/restoration of the forestry
ecosystems that have biodiversity of global importance.
•
The layout is through payments for Environmental Services to the
owners and possessors of the forestry lands located in eligible
zones. This Fund will initiate in 2008 with a initial capital of 10
million US dollars.
Conclusions
 ProÁrbol helps to preserve Carbon in forests, tropical forests
and other kind of vegetation, it also helps to capture CO2 from
the atmosphere.
 Mexico has assumed a voluntary commitment to reduce and
mitigate its emissions, and also to undertake actions of
mitigation/adaptation in view of the Climate Change.
 The related activities with the forestry vegetation and the soil
use changes, are elements that contribute in a 14% to the
Greenhouse Effect Gases (GEG) in Mexico.
 Mexico’s forests have a great potential for emission reduction
and CO2 conservation.
 Forestation, reforestation and natural forests management to
avoid deforestation are capable to compensate the emissions
of GEG in Mexico.