Pacific Ambition

FROM RARAKA TO THE TUAMOTU, AND BEYOND

The TORA model is designed to be replicable. Raraka is the first link in a chain that could extend across the Tuamotu and the insular Pacific.

This section presents medium and long-term development perspectives. Phase 1, the Raraka pilot programme, is the absolute priority. No expansion is engaged before the pilot model has been validated.

Scale-up potential

A replicable model, atoll by atoll

inhabited atolls in the Tuamotu

The Tuamotu comprises 78 inhabited atolls. Each presents senescent coconut groves, land held in indivision, and owners without access to carbon markets. The structure of the problem is identical to Raraka.

Once the TORA model is validated on Raraka, mandates signed, MRV operational, first contributions sold, redistribution in effect replication to other Tuamotu atolls becomes technically and legally tractable. The OTIA cadastral data already covers all of French Polynesia.

Regional context

An ecological sovereignty lever for the Pacific

Pacific island states are on the front line of climate change impacts sea level rise, ocean acidification, intensifying cyclones, while contributing marginally to global emissions.

A local carbon programme, managed by and for island communities, contributes to rebalancing this relationship by transforming Polynesian territories from passive victims into active participants in international carbon compensation. This is a question of sovereignty as much as economics.

The regional Pacific ambition fits within this framework. It is consistent with the priorities of partners such as the Kiwa Initiative (AFD/EU), which funds precisely this type of nature-based solution in the insular Pacific.

Institutional and regional partnerships

Supporting the ecological transition in Polynesia?

If you represent a Pacific regional institution or a funding body interested in developing insular carbon markets, please get in touch with TORA Initiative.