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