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
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Elaine Muir (Plan Vivo)-Carbon Offsetting Case Study
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Plan Vivo – Carbon management and rural livelihoods
• 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.
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The Carbon Market
• Buyers and sellers trade GHG emissions
• Carbon credit = avoidance/sequestration of one tonne of CO2, in comparison to baseline, or BAU
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ISO 14064 37%
VCS + ACR 35%
Plan Vivo 10%
SGS 4%
CCB 3%
CAR 2%
CCB + VCS 2%
Other 6%
The Role of Carbon Standards
• Transparency • Quality assurance • Represent different
project types (Plan Vivo – community based, developing countries)
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The Plan Vivo Standard
• Projects working with rural communities to conserve and restore ecosystems and build sustainable livelihoods
Plan Vivo Standard
History of Plan Vivo
1994 DFID research, Mexico.
Objective: connecting rural farmers to the carbon market
Plan Vivo: Payments for Ecosystem Services
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Ecosystem services supported by trees: • Climate regulation