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  • Executive summary
  • Front Material
    • Contents
    • Index of figures
    • Index of tables
    • Acronyms and abbreviations
    • Terms and definitions
  • Getting started
  • Introduction
    • The urgency of targeted biodiversity conservation
    • Simplicity, complexity theory, and biodiversity
    • Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities by design
    • Biodiversity methodology benefits
  • Overall description
    • Objectives
    • Scope
    • Limitations
  • Project description
    • Principles
      • Principles of working with IP
    • Eligibility criteria
      • Land ownership and law
    • Additionality
    • Project boundaries
      • Spatial limits of the BCP
      • Temporal limits of the BCP
      • Grouped projects
    • Implementation plan
      • Measurement approaches
      • Indicator species observations
      • Risks and uncertainty
    • Effective participation
      • Community involvement
      • Capacity for action
      • Financial transparency
      • Safeguards checklist
  • Calculation
    • Unit calculations
    • Area calculations
    • Time calculations
    • Integrity calculations
    • Value calculations
  • Baseline assessment
    • Baseline ecosystem categorization
    • Analysis of agents and drivers of biodiversity loss
    • Baseline biodiversity (optional)
    • Baseline risk of biodiversity loss
    • Indicator species selection
    • Indicator species integrity score
  • SDG contributions
  • Monitoring plan
    • Monitoring report
    • Additional monitoring requirements
  • Authors
  • References
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Biodiversity methodologies comparison table
    • Appendix B: Sample legal proof of land control
    • Appendix C: Sample baseline ecosystem categorization
    • Appendix D: Species categorization of richness
    • Appendix E: Sample selection of indicator species
    • Appendix F: Sample indicator-species observations
    • Appendix G: Sample open-source code and calculation
    • Appendix H: Indigenous authors
    • Appendix I: Letters of support
      • Fernando Ayerbe, Ornithology
      • Ned Hording, Biodiversity
      • Olber Llanos, Zoologist
      • Mike McColm, Ethnology
      • Peter Thomas, Anthropologist
      • Jesús Argente, Marine biology
      • Sara Andreotti, Marine Biologist
      • Carolina Romero, Lawyer.
      • Daniel Urbano, Herpetologist
      • Ramesh Boonratana PhD, Primatologist
      • Theodore Schmitt, Conservationists
      • Anja Hutschenreiter, Ecologist and Tropical Conservationist
      • Miguel Chindoy, Indigenous leader
    • Appendix J: Sample uses of biodiversity unit
    • Appendix K: How to do FPIC
    • Appendix L: Independent Expert Panel Checklist
    • Appendix M: How to calculate a biodiversity credit by hand
    • Appendix N: How to calculate home ranges
    • Appendix O: How to calculate integrity scores
  • Document history
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  1. Project description

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria for projects wishing to use this methodology

The Indicator Species Biodiversity Methodology (ISBM) is applicable to projects that meet the following eligibility criteria:

Table 1. Eligibility criteria for ISBM

Criteria

Description

Project activities

Conservation initiatives aiming to maintain the “in situ” conditions” of biodiversity, avoiding losses in biodiversity. The conservation activities prevent the partial or total loss of an ecosystem, population or species, or the extinction of an endemic and or threatened species.

Implementation entity

Entities implementing the projects can be any recognized legal entity, but they should have a clear mandate from the local IP and/or LC to represent the project in their area.

Land rights

Proof of land ownership, possession, stewardship, or land-use rights must be legally valid and compliant with Cercarbono’s program requirements. BCPs must have documentation from all land-rights holders for project implementation.

Identification of stakeholders and beneficiaries

All IP and LCs must be identified, and their inclusion in remuneration from the project transparently disclosed.

Vulnerability

The project area is vulnerable to or on a trajectory towards biodiversity loss due to degradation and/or deforestation if no program is implemented.

Prior funding or stacking

As addressed in BCPP additionality section. The location to be conserved has not received previous funding through mechanisms that overlap in time or duplicateconflict with the funding to be allocated by biodiversity credit. Projects may only stack VBCs with carbon crediting if they can clearly demonstrate they are doing additional activities (over and above what they are doing for carbon).

Project Scale

The minimum project geography must encompass an area that is the size of the natural range of an individual of the indicator species that qualify for validation of biodiversity. Projects can include adjacent or non-adjacent properties with a trajectory to create contiguous areas.

Geographical location

No limitations. This methodology was developed with tropical rainforests in mind but it can be adapted with appropriate evidence for other geographies.

Legal projects

Projects must comply with all relevant local, regional, national, and international laws and regulations.

Project duration

Projects should be viable for the long-term future, preferably for a maximum of 30 years, but IP and LC contracts may be structured as autorenewing yearly, and cancellable after one year.

Governance

Governance of the project should be driven by a collaborative approach with IP and LC and transparency into all aspects of the project.

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