11 TH ANNUAL CARIBBEAN VALUATION AND CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE
October 2 & 3, 2024
THE CLIMATE ADAPTATION CASE STUDY
Dr. Silburn Clarke FRICS, CLS
• Project Background & Context
• Parcel Ownership Mapping
• Irrigation Water Demand Census
BERYL CLIMATE EVENT
• Post Beryl Emergency Water Responses
• ESG-driven Carbon Offsets Swaps
• Located in South St Elizabeth
• ROOT ISSUE: CLIMATE CRISIS EMERGENCY
• Acceleration of decline in agricultural production
• Negative impact on historical rainfall patterns by Global Warming
• Disinvestment in agricultural land uses; growing demand for residential/tourism use
• National Strategic Initiative of GoJ - USD200mil Scope
• Major Agricultural Production Region - Bread Basket of Jamaica
• Home of Innovative Dry Weather farming practices
• Historically lacked adequate irrigation services
• Only 8% of arable land is irrigated
• Executing Agency: National Irrigation Commission (NIC)
• Strategic co-partners NLA, RADA, StEMC
• Project spans -Gross area of 14268 ha (35257 acres / 55 sq miles)
• Objective of Mapping Component – Delivery of quality data for supporting designing, engineering and strategic planning
• Contractor Llewelyn Allen & Associates (Parcel Ownership Mapping)
• Social Census Survey for Farmers Irrigation Water Demand Study - Spatial Innovision
• GROUND BREAKING - FY 2024/25
• Data Integrity for Design & Implementation
• Accuracy and Currency of
1. land tenure status; legally authorised owners and occupiers
ii. the precise location and sizes of farm-lots
iii. attitude towards the project by farming community
iv. the types of farm activities (crop types, categories, livestock)
Mapping Components
• Parcel Ownership Mapping, (per NLA LVD Mapping Procedures Manual)
• Irrigation Water Demand census
• Land acquisition -
• ROW surveys along main trunkline
• Reservoir sites
• Largest Irrigation Infrastructure Project
• Source Input: Black River
• (West Lacovia – Cashew Intake)
• Irrigation Infrastructure
• Main Trunkline
• Reservoirs
• Boosters
• Phase 1 - lowest elevation levels (dryest zones)
• Phase 2 – mid-level elevations
• Phase 3 - highest elevations
~5,189* REGISTERED FARMS
MOUNTAINSIDE 2966 43.1% 1278
PEDRO PLAINS 2553 51.3% 1310
SOUTHFIELD 2703 73.5% 1987
JUNCTION 4490 13.7% 614 * ( excl NIC Blocks D & J)
NIC / NLA design considerations for the Pedro Plain Region
• 15,500 parcels identified in the project region
• Approx 7,900 assumed farming parcels
• Fragmentation rate of parcels from informal subdivision assumed at 2.5 on average
• Ownership Mapping Target: 19,900 (land surveys and attribute data)
• Estimated 60% of the parcels in the region / parish unregistered
• Projected high incidence of mis-match in name of owners and occupiers
LOCATION
MIS - MATCH ISSUES
TITLED PROPERTY
LOCATION
MIS - MATCH ISSUES
TITLED PROPERTY
Valuation Number :
Name of Owner :
Person in Possession:
Postal Address : Agent Name :
Property Address : Postal Location :
Title Reference : V: F:
Plan Number : (deposited plan or strata plan)
PE Number :
Area :
PROPERTY SOIL : Type Description
*Slope Capab. Area (Sq.M)
LAND USE: Existing : Potential :
SERVICES Wat: Elec: Tel: Post: Sew: Fire: San: Irr:
PHYSICAL CHAR *shape of land, gradient, access
• Parcel Ownership Mapping
• Management Platforms
ArcGIS Online / ArcGIS Dashboards
• Parcel Ownership Data Collection: ArcGIS Pro DJI Drone Surveys
Drone2Map / Pix4D
ArcGIS Field Maps AutoCad
1) High precision Pre-Marked Ground Controls
2) Aerial Photogrammetry / Orthophotomaps
3) Parcel boundary Surveying to sub-metre accuracy (Trimble DA2 GPS / ArcGIS Field Maps)
4) Parcel Ownership Attributes Capture onto Excel-based LVD Inspection Sheets
COMPILATION of PARCELS by SOURCE DATA
Feb 2023 to Date
14,050 parcels delineated
Spatial Dispersion of Mapped Parcels
• Approval Irrigation Water Census Questionnaire Design MOAFM / NIC - July 2023
• PedroWater Branding and Hotline - Aug 2023
• Community Buy-in / Engagement / Public Awareness
• Hub, Radio, TV, TownCryer, Visitations, TownHall Meetings Aug 2023 - July 2024
• System Design, Application Development, Data Management, Operations Dashboard Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
• DCO Training (~95 trained – 39 deployed) - Aug 2023 - May 2024
• Data Collection
• Initial Field Surveys - Aug 2023 to Dec 2023
• Contact Call Centre (RADA Registered Farmers Data) - Jan 2024 to Apr 2024
• Final Field Surveys Systematic District by District Visitations - May 2024 to Jul 2024
• Continuous Quality Control / Quality Awareness Aug 2023 - May 2024
CENSUS PERIOD: AUG 23 TO JUL 24
• 1 – interviewee’s consent and level of interest in irrigation water for their farms or gardens
• 2 - respondent (Name, Personal ID, tel #, sex, age, resp address)
• 3 - farm property (Tenure, Property TaxID, Title Vol&Fol, Size, farm address)
• 4 – current Agricultural farm practices (crops, livestock, water use, challenges)
• 5 - future Agricultural farming after NIC Irrigation (crops, livestock)
• 6 – Social Data (membership in support groups eg JAS, RADA#, Referrals)
• 7 – General Internal (eg geolocation, interviewer notes etc)
• Community Buy-in
• Community Sensitisation
• Public Awareness
https://pedro-plains-sil.hub.arcgis.com/
• Data Management Platforms
ArcGIS Online / ArcGIS Dashboards
ArcGIS Pro
SurveyMonkey
Starlink
• Data Collection
Field Mobile Work:
Survey123
SurveyMonkey with S123 Geopoint
• Call Centre Ops:
SurveyMonkey
Survey123 (self-tag Geopoint)
• Community Outreach and Engagement
• Hotline
• ArcGIS Community Hub
• WhatsApp Groups for Agricultural Extension Areas
SurveyMonkey
• Inhouse Contact / Call Centre
Ops by DCO’s
• (no field visits necessary)
• Supplemented by self-tag S123
Geopoint App
• PedroWater GeoPoint Survey123
• Daily Assignment Operational Tool
• DCO Field Navigation
• Self-Tagging by Farmers
indicative )
THE Pedro WATER CENSUS WILL PROVIDE A RICH SOURCE OF EMPIRICAL DATA FOR SOCIAL RESEARCHERS WELL INTO THE FUTURE
• 800 150gals Portable Hand Filters
• 100% sponsored by Moses West Foundation and Thirsty Lands
• Donated to Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management
MWF-AWG technology emulates nature’s hydrological cycle to develop an environmentally friendly solution by converting the water vapour in humid-rich atmospheres into purified fluid water
Atmospheric water vapor absorbs heat radiated from the Earth and prevents it from escaping outwards to space, further warming the atmosphere, and resulting in even more water vapor in the atmosphere.
Scientists refers to this as the "positive feedback loop.“
It is estimated that this effect more than doubles the warming that would happen due to increasing carbon dioxide alone
Unexpected and surprising outpouring of interest from ESGEnterprises in the metropoles seeking out opportunities to fund Post-Beryl Water Resilience by Carbon Offset Trades
• Governments globally have signed-off on landmark agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, committing themselves to reduce GHG emissions.
• Businesses have steadily adopted ESG a part of their strategy and are voluntarily reporting, marketing, and investment. Interest took off rapidly after the 2015 Paris Agreement.
• ESG, especially the ‘E’ component, is now shifting from a voluntary regime to a mandatory one, with a host of new laws being proogrammed, including mandatory reporting, carbon pricing, and carbon import fees, as well as more state support and investment for clean energy technologies.
• Carbon offsetting is at a crossroads. Demand for voluntary offsetting schemes designed to neutralise corporations and individuals’ carbon footprints are at an all-time high. This $1bn market could hit $190bn within eight years 92030) as demand for carbon credits is predicted to skyrocket 50-fold by 2050 (USD2trilion).
RICS MODUS 2022 Credit check: the problem with carbon offsetting
• 2025; The EU’s deforestation rules will take effect.
- 2070
• 2030; Canada’s target year for producing zero plastic waste.
• 2025; This will be the likely first reporting year for (International Sustainability Standards Board) ISSB reporting standards.
• 2026; Import fees for the world’s first major carbon border tax, The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will begin.
• 2027; EU rules on battery recycling, labeling, and passporting will take effect.
• 2027; Earliest start year for road transport and buildings to be covered by the EU Emission Trading Systems (ETS).
• 2030; The UK’s ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars will take effect.
• 2034; The EU CBAM and ETS 2 will be fully phased in.
• 2035; The EU ban on sales of internal combustion engine cars will take effect.
• 2035; The US government is to end its own purchases of gas-powered vehicles.
• 2050; The EU, UK, and US target date for achieving net zero GHG emissions.
• 2060; China’s target date for achieving net zero GHG emissions.
• 2070; India’s target date for achieving net zero GHG emissions.
POSITIVE WATER VAPOUR FEEDBACK
GREENING OF TERRAIN FROM INCREASED IRRIGATION
State of Readiness (legislation, methods, models, certification, standards, training, etc) for assessment and valuation of Carbon Offsets in Caribbean ?
• The global carbon offset/carbon credit market was valued at 331.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. It is expected that the global carbon offset/carbon credit market will grow at a CAGR of 31 percent during the forecast period of 2023 to 2028 to reach a value of 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars.
• Carbon offsetting is at a crossroads. Demand for voluntary offsetting schemes designed to neutralise corporations and individuals’ carbon footprints are at an all-time high. This $1bn market could hit $190bn within eight years 92030) as demand for carbon credits is predicted to skyrocket 50-fold by 2050 (USD2trilion).
Credit check: the problem with carbon offsetting
