LM Data Editor Guidelines: Green Deals

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P5-29QZB8KR9J-bEcq7IqEGm8FUhFjwo/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=102660977782443621588&rtpof=true&sd=true 


Data Entry Guide for Green Deals

(Vers.3, 20 Sept 2024) 

A)          Documenting carbon offset projects in the LM database


1.      Inclusion criteria for carbon offset deals in the LMI Database

1.  Entail a transfer of rights to use, control, or ownership of land through sale, lease, or concession, license (…etc.);

2.  Have been negotiated or concluded in the year 2000 or later;

3.  Cover an area of 200 hectares or more;

4.  Imply a potential effect on smallholder livelihoods, local community use, important ecosystem service provision, or on the distribution of land (rights).

These criteria may be deviated from in individual cases of particular interest, e.g. in the case of serious land conflicts, human rights violations and/or major impacts on the local population.

 

2.      Key sections:

 


 

 


3.      Relevant databases

Aside from offset registries the following database can be relevant to retrieve data for the LMI database:

·       Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database

Voluntary Registry Offsets Database | Berkeley Carbon Trading Project | Projects | Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) | Centers | Research and Impact | Goldman School of Public Policy | University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley database

LMI variables

Project Site Location

Location

Voluntrary registry

Certification standard/mechanism in produce section

Estimated Annual Emission Reductions

Projected annual carbon sequestration in produce section

First Year of Project (The first year when reductions/removals occurred (as claimed))

Start Date in produce section

Type

Choices in produce section

Voluntary Status

Comment section: If voluntary status is under development etc. please click „no certification standard“ and leave a comment that e.g. „VCS certification is under development“in produce section

Project Developer

Operating/Parent Company (in some cases)

First Year of Project

Size in operation (year)

Project Name

Name of investment project

Project ID

ID of certification standard/mechanism


·       ID-RECCO

International Database on REDD+ Projects and Programs - Idrecco (reddprojectsdatabase.org)

ID-RECCO database

LMI

location_details & Longitude & Latitude

Location

project_name

Name of investment project

area

Contract size of deal (depends on implementation status)

starting_year

Size in operation (year)

monetary_benefit_detail & non_cash_benefits_describe & education_describe & infrastructure_describe & wellbeing_describe

Promised / Materialized benefits for local communities

employment_amount

Number of total jobs created

source_2022 & source_2020

Data sources

contested

Presence of land conflicts

FPIC

Community consultation

project_type & precision_ar_type

Choices in produce section

standard_1 & standard_2 & standard_3

Certification standard/mechanism in produce section


B)          Documenting renewable energy projects in the LM database


 

1.      Inclusion criteria for renewable energy deals in the LMI Database

1.  Entail a transfer of rights to use, control, or ownership of land through sale, lease, or concession, license (…);

2.  Have been negotiated or concluded in the year 2000 or later;

3.  Cover an area of 200 hectares or more;
Deals with more than 200 hectares are included, but in case of major impacts for the local population, deals with 50ha or more can also be included.
As relatively few and rather small solar projects have been realized in Africa, we have lowered the general threshold for solar deals there to 50 hectares.

4.  Imply a potential effect on smallholder livelihoods, local community use, important ecosystem service provision, or on the distribution of land (rights).

These criteria may be deviated from in individual cases of particular interest, e.g. in the case of serious land conflicts, human rights violations and/or major impacts on the local population.

 

Ø  Offshore windfarms

Ø  Floating photovoltaics (FPV)

Ø  Hydropower plants.

 

 

 

 

2.      Key sections:

·       Land area

 

 

o   Currently installed capacity: If a solar or wind project is on hold (but was previously operational), leave currently installed capacity completed? [co5] 

o   Intended capacity: If the power plant is fully operational and no further expansion is planned, the currently installed capacity is the same as the intended capacity.

o   Date: When recording dates in the electricity generation section, the date should refer to the date of currently installed capacity.

 

·       Local communities / indigenous peoples

o   Impacts on local communities, such as restrictions on settlement near windmills, should be recorded under negative impacts for local communities, even if these areas are outside the contract area.

 

 

 




[1] This are two examples of project based on community land that are not included: https://www.planvivo.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=430ec243-b1c7-439e-a626-92db8292165d

https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/5107

This is an example of a deal that is included:

https://landmatrix.org/deal/9769/contracts/


[2] An example of such an arrangement from Madagascar: https://registry.verra.org/app/projectDetail/VCS/1215


[3] https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/85060.html


[4] Deal #10588 (landmatrix.org)


[5] Deal #7531 (landmatrix.org)


 [CA1]How about PPPs - Public Private Partnerships?

 [co2]This sentence is not very clear to me

 [CA3]What if the area to be reforested was previously used as agricultural land?

 [CA4]Subcategory of Forestry

 [co5]Can we discuss this on 1 October during data coordination meeting? To confirm our thinking in Africa and then also to refine this rough sentence added if you think it is relevant