Kuamut Carbon Pipeline
Kuamut Project - Introduction
The Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project (Kuamut Project) aims to protect and restore 83,381 ha of tropical forest in Sabah, Malaysia. The project is located in the Tongod and Kinabatangan districts of Sabah. The project area is part of a long-term, ca. 1-million-hectare concession, granted to Yayasan Sabah on a 99-year lease arrangement with the Sabah Forestry Department (acting on behalf of the State Government of Sabah). Yayasan Sabah is a State-owned para-governmental charitable foundation that was formed in 1966 with the aim of “improving the lives of Malaysians living in Sabah”.
The following interactive map (Figure 1) displays the outline of the project area. Click on the layers tab on the left hand side of this map (and others throughout the book) to toggle the layers on and off or to change the basemap and displayed layers.
Monitoring Periods
This book considers two monitoring periods, the first spanning from the project start, in 2016, to 2021 (MR1). The second monitoring period spans from 2022 to 2023 (MR2). The validation, verification and issuance of carbon credits for MR1 was completed in 2024. The verification process for MR2 is ongoing.
Book overview
This quarto book (Allaire et al. 2022) describes the data processing pipeline used to estimate the above ground carbon emission offsets for Permian Global’s Kuamut Project.
The methods herein are in accordance with the Verra VM0010 VCS Methodology and outline the precise data processing steps carried out during the analysis.The analysis was carried out using the R programming language (R Core Team 2023). Additional external analyses were carried out as part of this pipeline including a deforestation classification analysis, conducted in Google Earth Engine (Gorelick et al. 2017) and described in 16 Deforestation Emissions; and a Machine Learning pipeline for the generation of time series Biomass and Merchantable Volume maps, this is described further in 7 Biomass Mapping.