QUÉBEC / NORTH SHORE
THREE PARTS OF ONE LANDSCAPE
Orange follows peatland classes in Québec’s potential wetland inventory: bogs, fens, wooded peatlands and undifferentiated open peatlands. These are mapped potential habitats, not verified eligible project hectares.
Choose Explore restoration to move the water and vegetation layers. The mapped baseline remains a dated record of public source data.
Preliminary planning area. Final boundary, tenure, eligible activity area, baseline and field condition remain subject to project development.
tCO₂e/year preliminary planning estimate. This is not a forecast of issuance, a verified result, or evidence of CORSIA eligibility.
The combined map places the current claim area within Québec’s North Shore, with its coordinate grid, legend and scale retained.
THE CLIMATE BEHIND THE LANDSCAPE
Havre-Saint-Pierre sits on Québec’s North Shore. Published HSP-area climate records describe a cool setting with annual precipitation of roughly 900–1,000 mm. The station record cited in the Bouleau peatland study has positive monthly mean temperatures from May to October. Prijac et al., 2022
HSP coastal study site, 50.256°N, 63.445°W. Climate variables: CRU gridded time series, 1991–2020, reported in Arsenault et al. (2023), Table 1. Ratio calculated as 901 ÷ 487. These are nearby-site data, not a climate extraction over the project boundary.
The steps below apply the IPCC default climate-region framework to that coastal HSP dataset. “Temperate” here is an accounting classification—not a claim that winters are mild.
No. At 1.7°C, the temperature condition fails. Frost and tropical elevation tests do not change this route.
Otherwise: tropical pathwayNo. 1.7°C is below the warm-temperate threshold.
If yes: warm temperateYes. 1.7°C follows the cool-temperate branch.
If no: boreal or polar testsYes. 901 ÷ 487 = 1.85.
If no: cool temperate dryDerived from the published inputs—not a project certification.
Simplified redraw of IPCC 2006, Volume 4, Figure 3A.5.2. The source contains the complete alternative branches.
| Evidence | Period and method | What it tells us |
|---|---|---|
| HSP coastal peatland Arsenault et al., Table 1 | 1991–2020, CRU gridded climate | 1.7°C; precipitation 901 mm; potential evapotranspiration 487 mm. Supports the pathway above. |
| HSP meteorological station Reported by Prijac et al. | 1990–2019 station means | 1.5°C and 1,011 mm precipitation. Independent support for positive annual mean temperature; no PET value supplied here. |
| La Romaine study site Arsenault et al., Table 1 | 1991–2020, CRU; 50.523°N, 63.206°W | −0.7°C. Nearby inland conditions differ; the coastal result must not be extended indiscriminately across the region. |
A landscape can have boreal vegetation while following a cool-temperate accounting pathway. The Bouleau study explicitly describes boreal forest alongside the positive HSP station temperature. Final project classification requires a documented assessment over the eligible boundary. It does not, by itself, establish acceptance under Verra VM0036 or confirm carbon-credit eligibility.
LIFE IN AND AROUND THE PEATLANDS
There are published flora and fauna records for nearby peatlands and the Mingan Archipelago. They help describe the wider landscape, but they are not an inventory of the Carbon2Green project parcels. Island geology and habitats also differ from the mainland.
| Group | Plant or animal | Short description | Recorded context / source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flora | Sphagnum mosses | Peat-forming mosses that retain water and can slow organic-soil decomposition. | Mingan peat bogs |
| Flora | Cloudberry / chicouté | A familiar berry plant documented in the archipelago’s rain-fed, acidic bogs. | Mingan rain-fed bogs |
| Flora | Labrador tea | A shrub found where peat bogs meet boreal forest. | Mingan bog–forest transitions |
| Flora | Pitcher plant | Listed among the plants of the archipelago’s nutrient-poor, rain-fed bogs. | Mingan rain-fed bogs |
| Flora | Tamarack and bogbean | Recorded in groundwater-fed peatlands, which have different conditions from rain-fed bogs. | Mingan groundwater-fed peatlands |
| Flora | Sphagnum fuscum and S. capillifolium | Mosses recorded on raised hummocks; other Sphagnum species occupy wetter lawns and hollows. | Bouleau peatland study |
| Fauna | Moose | A large herbivore documented on the Mingan islands, where it finds food and shelter. | Mingan regional records |
| Fauna | Beaver | A terrestrial mammal documented by Parks Canada in the archipelago. | Mingan regional records |
| Fauna | Snowshoe hare | A regional species studied by Parks Canada with local participation, including the HSP hunting and fishing association. | Mingan research programme |
| Fauna | Resident and migratory birds | More than 200 bird species use the reserve; habitats include forest, peat bogs and the coast. This is a regional count. | Mingan regional records |
Sources: Parks Canada’s regional flora, wildlife and research pages, and the published Bouleau peatland study. These records do not demonstrate a biodiversity gain caused by the project.
What Carbon2Green can say about the project will change as each stage is completed. Preliminary planning figures will remain separate from validated designs, monitored performance, verified outcomes and any units that may eventually be issued.