Filtering Medium by Sueli Gomes, Spin - 09/23/2022
By Equipe de Redação
Posted in September 23, 2022
For the first time, the company is awarded in the “Best Individual Offsetting Project” category
Biofílica Ambipar Environment, an Ambipar Group company, won the Environmental Finance Award for the fifth time. In this edition, the company was awarded for the first time in the “Best Individual Offsetting Project” category with the AR Corredores de Vida Project, developed in partnership with IPÊ – Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, a Brazilian socio-environmental organization that develops projects for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest. since 1992. In four previous editions, Biofílica Ambipar received awards in the “Best Project Developer, Forest and Land use” category, in 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
The winning project is part of a new phase of the Corredores de Vida Project, created and implemented by IPÊ since 2002 in Pontal do Paranapanema, in the extreme west of the state of São Paulo, in the Atlantic Forest biome. The Institute’s work is an initiative supported by three pillars: climate, community and biodiversity, with national and international recognition. This forest restoration work has as its starting point the Map of Dreams of Pontal do Paranapanema, created through IPÊ research, which defined the priority areas for reforestation in Oeste Paulista, initially in seven municipalities.
“It is with great joy that we are once again awarded the Environmental Finance Award. We won another four awards and, this time, we won one of our important projects, “AR Corredores de Vida”. This case, in addition to the climate and biodiversity component, promotes several benefits to the community, mainly through environmental education activities, promotion of courses and incentives for the implementation of forest seedling nurseries, which makes us very proud of the work carried out together with our partners”, celebrates Plínio Ribeiro, CEO of Biofílica Ambipar.
“We were very happy with the award dedicated to the project. The partnership with Biofílica Ambipar is very important for us to scale our actions to mitigate carbon and generate socio-environmental impact in Pontal do Paranapanema. This year alone, forest restoration has guaranteed 250 jobs in the region. Many people find in this activity a chance to generate income for their families – from those who work in the IPÊ nurseries to the companies that carry out the plantations accompanied by our technical team. An award is always a great recognition, but also a great responsibility to do more and better for the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest and Brazil, which is IPÊ’s mission”, says Dr. Laury Cullen Jr, coordinator of the Corredores de Vida project at the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ).
The partnership with Biofílica Ambipar from 2021
In 2021, IPÊ expanded reforestation actions through a partnership with Biofílica Ambipar Environment, jointly creating the AR Corredores de Vida Project and directing efforts to generate carbon credits to be certified by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate , Community and Biodiversity (CCB) – from the Verra standard. Based on the forest restoration of the Atlantic Forest in the region of Pontal do Paranapanema – through the planting of seedlings, enrichment or conduction of regeneration – the project contributes to the conversion of 75,000 hectares of areas of environmental liabilities of private properties into restored areas with about than 150 million new tree seedlings.
With the adhesion of the carbon component, the priority areas of the Mapa dos Sonhos were expanded from 7 to 30 municipalities. The AR Corredores de Vida Project has already restored 500 hectares since December 2021, which is equivalent to approximately 1 million Atlantic Forest tree seedlings, and will implement another 1,250 hectares by the end of 2023, totaling 1,750 in two years of operation. The expectation is to attract companies interested in purchasing the removal carbon credits.
Dr. Laury Cullen highlights: “The forest restoration work carried out by IPÊ together with partners has as its tripod the CCB – Climate, Community and Biodiversity. I emphasize that in the Climate sphere, forests remove carbon, which contributes to mitigating the effects of climate change. In relation to the Community, the generation of employment in local communities with an increase in income is notable. As for Biodiversity, forest restoration and landscape management contribute to the conservation of flora and fauna, as well as all biodiversity”. The black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus), an endangered species and the focus of an IPÊ project, is also among the species benefiting from the restoration actions.
Sueli Gomes
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