What type of land can be used for biomass projects?

What type of land can be used for biomass projects?

Project Developers must demonstrate that their project will only make use of degraded land and shall include this criterion in the Sustainability Monitoring Plan to ensure there is no diversion of land from other essential purposes like food production. Two exceptions may be considered:

  1. Convincing evidence is provided showing that the envisioned energy crop is part of a traditional rotational cropping

OR

  1. ​An increase of the productivity is obtained, locally and to the benefit of the current users, through measures implemented in the context of the activity so as to at minimum compensate for the part of the land newly allocated to growing the energy crop.

Compliance with these criteria above must be monitored over the crediting period and thus be part of the Monitoring Plan.