Pozo del Tumé Carbon Sequestration Project 

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CO2 Emission Reductions

CO2 Emission Calculation
Project life = 70 years

Baseline Calculation:

The total amount of CO2 emissions reductions that the Project will produce is approximately 2 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent.

The Carbon Offset verification of the Pozo del Tume project will conducted in two phases:

a) Pre Assessment

The Pre-Assessment primarily aims to: (i) understand the requirements of Carbon Offset Verification; (ii) develop a broad picture and understanding of the management systems and practices. The information gathered is also used to plan the key steps of the main assessment, including the logistics and specialists required to undertake the:

• Assessment against the Eligibility Criteria

• Assessment of Scientific Methodology

• Risk and Uncertainty Assessment

• Quantification of Carbon Offsets

This initial phase involves discussion about the main characteristics of the project, possibility including a field visit. Preliminary analysis of project design and scientific validity is conducted in order to define the type of service required. Other issues such as data availability and quality also have to be considered.

This phase primarily aims to provide both certifier and project management with a solid understanding of each other's roles, responsibilities and contributions, to ascertain an effective and efficient certification process with maximum value added to the project.

b) Main Assessment

This phase includes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the project, conducted both in the office and during field visits, entailing:

Qualitative analysis:

• Suitability assessment - detailed analysis of project design in order to ascertain whether it meets certain carbon offset eligibility criteria (see below)

• Assessment of the scientific methodology of the project, focusing on data availability and data quality;

• Assessment of the project's management capability and infrastructure, to determine it's ability to accomplish the targets proposed;

Quantitative analysis:

• Verification of projections of carbon flows derived from the project by quantifying carbon flows of with - without - (baseline) project scenarios.

• Risk and uncertainty assessment quantifying all carbon offsets that are not a hundred percent certain. These offsets are separated from guaranteed offsets and placed in a buffer (offsets not authorized to be traded).

• These assessments result in a Schedule of Emission Reduction Units that indicates the emission reduction units that will be achieved by the project during the lifetime (provided it is implemented as described in the associated project design). Furthermore, it determined which proportion of the offsets must be retained in the buffer to cover for the risk and uncertainty.

Monitoring and Verification:

Ctrade.org a company based in Arizona will conduct project monitoring and long-term verification of GHG emissions reductions for the Project.

Information will be collected by the monitoring system and will be used to evaluate actual emissions reductions (impacts vs. projections). The monitoring system will be set up to collect data and to track verify that the projections are established by the actual measured and recorded emissions.