Elaine Muir (Plan Vivo)-Carbon Offsetting Case Study
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Plan Vivo is a carbon offset program that works with rural communities to conserve and restore ecosystems through activities like afforestation, reforestation, and agroforestry. Local participants develop management plans and are paid for ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and water filtration. The Plan Vivo Standard ensures transparency, quality, and equitable finance sharing. Currently operating in 14 countries, over 4,500 participants have established over 20,000 hectares of managed land, generating over 1 million tons of certified offsets.
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- 1. Plan Vivo – Carbon management and rural livelihoods • What is carbon offsetting? • The Carbon Market • The Plan Vivo Standard • Plan Vivo activities in Malawi Contact Elaine Muir email: [email protected] Tel: 0131 672 3782 | Fax: 0131 672 9299 Tower Mains Studios 18b Liberton Brae Edinburgh EH16 6AE www.planvivo.org 1
- 2. What is carbon offsetting? • This involves calculating a person or entity’s GHG emissions and then purchasing ‘credits’ from emission reduction projects that have removed an equivalent amount from the atmosphere. 2
- 3. The Carbon Market • Buyers and sellers trade GHG emissions • Carbon credit = avoidance/sequestration of one tonne of CO2, in comparison to baseline, or BAU 3
- 4. The Role of Carbon Standards CCB + VCS 2% CAR CCB 2% Other 3% 6% SGS 4% • Transparency • Quality assurance ISO 14064 • Represent different Plan Vivo 37% project types (Plan Vivo 10% – community based, developing countries) VCS + ACR 35% 4
- 5. The Plan Vivo Standard Plan Vivo Standard • Projects working with rural communities to conserve and restore ecosystems and build sustainable livelihoods History of Plan Vivo 1994 DFID research, Mexico. Objective: connecting rural farmers to the carbon market 5
- 6. Plan Vivo: Payments for Ecosystem Services Landowners should be Not just about carbon… compensated for services which benefit Ecosystem services the wider region/world supported by trees: • Climate regulation (carbon services) • Biodiversity • Watersheds (water availability, quality) • Soil stability • Landscape beauty 6
- 7. How does it work? What is a plan vivo? • Participants draw up plan vivos (management plans) • Range of activities: Afforestation/reforestation, agroforestry, forest conservation and restoration • Sale agreements with project coordinator for carbon services 7
- 8. How are carbon services quantified? 8
- 9. Achievements so far • Projects under development or operational in 14 countries • >4500 participants with plan vivos • >20,000 hectares under management • ~$6 million channelled to developing countries • 1,000,000 tCO2 certified to date 9
- 10. Plan Vivo in Malawi • Clinton Development Initiative • Forestry and agroforestry • > 1200 farmers in Dowa and Neno districts • 20,000 Plan Vivo Certificates 10
- 11. How are projects financed? 11
- 12. Certificate Issuance history 2500000 Plan Vivo Certificates issued: Cumulative actual and 2 year projection 2000000 Volume of Certificates 1500000 1000000 500000 0 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Year 12
- 13. How is finance shared? Certification $0.35 Verification, marketing? $0.65 Admin’ monitoring, etc Example price: $1.40 $6 / tCO2 Staged payment to • Producers must receive an communities/ equitable share producers $3.60 13
- 14. Contact Elaine Muir [email protected] Tel: 0131 672 3782 | Fax: 0131 672 9299 Tower Mains Studios 18b Liberton Brae Edinburgh EH16 6AE www.planvivo.org 14