Sumarið 2024 hófst nýtt skógræktarverkefni í Fjallsseli í Fellunum, þar sem gróðursettar voru tæplega 60.000 plöntur. Á svæðinu var gróðurfar fjölbreytt með mólendi, gömlum túnum og nokkru graslendi. Gróðursettar tegundir voru meðal annars lerki, fura og ösp, sem munu stuðla að fjölbreyttu og gróskumiklu vistkerfi í framtíðinni.

Þrátt fyrir áskoranir sem fylgja skógrækt á mismunandi jarðvegi var unnið markvisst að því að tryggja góðan árangur með réttu vali á plöntutegundum og skipulagi. Framundan er að fylgjast með og styðja við uppvöxt trjánna, sem eiga eftir að breyta svæðinu á undraverðan hátt og stuðla að náttúruvernd, aukinni kolefnisbindingu og skjólsælli umhverfi í framtíðinni. Þetta verkefni er fallegt dæmi um hvernig nýskógrækt getur breytt ásýnd og virkni lands til lengri tíma.

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Baseline additionality. Compared to the baseline scenario the project needs to mitigate climate change. That is the project must implement actions that are additional to what would occur compared to the baseline.

Level 1 additionality

Statutory additionality. The project must implement actions that are beyond requirements stipulated in local legislation or regulations. Projects are statutory additional if their implementation and/or operation is not required by any law, statute, or other regulatory framework, agreements, settlements, or other legally binding mandates requiring implementation and operation or requiring implementation of similar measures that would result in the same mitigations in the host country.

Level 2a additionality

Financial additionality II. The project is financially additional if it faces significant financial limitations that revenues from the sale of carbon credits mitigates or are revenues due to the sale of carbon credits are the only source of revenues. When carbon credit revenues are a precondition for the implementation of the project and/or carbon credit revenues are essential in maintaining the project operations and ongoing financial viability post-implementation, then they are considered to be financial additional II.

Level 4b additionality

Europe

Fjallssel

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

SDG 13: Climate Action

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

SDG 15: Life on Land

Afforestation and reforestation

Fjallssel in Fellir is the site of a forestry project focused on carbon sequestration. In the summer of 2024, nearly 60,000 trees—including larch, pine, and aspen—were planted in the area. The landscape was characterized by heathland and old hayfields, with some patches of grassland scattered throughout.

Sequestration or removal and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Fjallssel

Iceland

Afforestation and reforestation

FCC

Yggdrasill Carbon ehf.

Iceland