Plan Vivo
   

 

Welcome to the Plan Vivo website. Plan Vivo is a standard for designing and certifying community-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) programmes.

Plan Vivo is ethical and pro-poor. It puts people at the heart of the solution to threats posed by climate change and loss of ecosystem services.
Plan Vivo programmes:

  • Empower communities to take control of their resources
  • Reduce poverty and improve rural livelihoods and food security
  • Generate long term, verifiable carbon services backed up by a shared carbon buffer
  • Restore and protect ecosystem services such as biodiversity and watersheds by protecting natural forest

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Plan Vivo so far…

Plan Vivo Certificates issued (tCO2): 1,102,083
Smallholders and community groups with plan vivos: 8727
Hectares under management: 28,569
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Plan Vivo programmes are run by in-country organisations, and assessed by the Plan Vivo Foundation, a registered charity in the UK.

Projects generate Plan Vivo Certificates, each representing the reduction or avoidance of one tonne of carbon dioxide. Interested in responsible and ethical carbon offsetting? Support Plan Vivo by purchasing Plan Vivo Certificates.

Download a Plan Vivo overview here (Espagnol Spanish flag) (FrancaisFrench flag)

Plan Vivo Profile: Don Fernando Aguilar

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When I think of how Scolel’Te programme started, getting people participating in planting trees was not easy. People could not understand why they would receive income from outsiders…”

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Interested in ethical carbon?

Join our team!

The Plan Vivo Foundation is recruiting!

We are currently seeking a dynamic, motivated individual to join our organisation in Edinburgh, to fill the post of Programmes and Operations Manager.

For full job description and application process go to ‘vacancies’.