Project Detail |
Validation achieved to the CCB Standards Second Edition on 01 August 2013.
The Sodo Community Managed Reforestation Project is an initiative of the Sodo community and World Vision Ethiopia to restore and protect the montane high-forest on the slopes of Mt Damota, in the highlands of Southern Ethiopia. The aims of the project include maintaining and increasing native flora and fauna diversity, improving soil conditions to reduce the risk of floods, erosion and to improve agricultural yields and potential livelihood, environmental rehabilitation for carbon sequestration and to support long term sustainable ecosystem regeneration of the 503 hectares of the Mt Damota project area. The project has achieved prevalidation under CarbonFix Standard, and proposes a certification period of 35 years, resulting in the sequestration of 189,027 metric tons of CO2 equivalent |