Plan Vivo

Watch the Plan Vivo video

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Find out more about how Plan Vivo works, and hear from some of the communities involved, from Latin America, to Africa, and Asia, who are at the heart of the network, by watching this short video.… Read the rest

Impacts so far…

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Plan Vivo Certificates issued: 1,459,640

Smallholders and community groups with plan vivos: 9891

Area under management: 26,210 ha plus >200km boundary planting… Read the rest

27-28 Nov 2012 | SusCon International Conference on Sustainable Business

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Plan Vivo at the SusCon 2012 International Conference on Sustainable Business Consumption

World Conference Centre, Bonn, Germany, 27th-28th November 2012

The focus of SusCon is to bring together actors including financial institutions, consumer goods industries and retailers, small to multinational businesses, scientific and technology providers, governmental and UN organisations, NGOs, campaigns and initiatives – to investigate solution-oriented approaches to sustainable development in business.

The Plan Vivo Foundation has been invited to participate in a session on sustainable financing and payments for ecosystem services, on Wednesday 28th November.

For programme information visit this link: http://www.suscon.net/default.asp?Menue=128&News=255

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18-22 Nov 2012 | Plan Vivo at Global Soil Week, Berlin

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First Global Soil Week 2012

Berlin 18-22 Nov 2012

The Plan Vivo Foundation is participating in the first Global Soil Week.

Soils are fundamental pillars of sustainable development. They are essential for food security and provide ecosystem services including carbon storage. Even though soils are managed and owned locally, their degradation is a key global issue, as their functions transcend national boundaries. We urgently need to upscale sustainable soil management.

The First Global Soil Week offers a forum of interactive exchange and dialogue. Stakeholders from science, government, business and civil society will come together to share their land and soil-related experience and expertise, and to develop future plans of action for sustainable land/soil management and governance.

The Plan Vivo Foundation is presenting in the session: “Markets for Soil Organic Carbon: A Feasible Policy Solution for Smallholders?” on Wednesday 21st November.

For more information including registration and programme info visit the First Global Soil Week website.

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31st October 2012 | Scaling Up Climate Smart Agriculture, London (including Q&A on updated Plan Vivo Standard)

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Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture

31st October 2012, PWC offices, London

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Download the invitation as a pdf.

What
Making agriculture ‘climate-smart’ in developing countries can help improve smallholder livelihoods, green supply chains and tackle climate change challenges (both adaptation and mitigation). But measuring the benefits of climate-smart agriculture, and supporting long-term landscape level programmes is a challenge – for donors, governments, retailers and carbon market professionals.

This launch event provides an exciting and exclusive opportunity to hear about new approaches and tools that can be used to help scale up adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices, and link businesses and donors to communities in developing countries through robust and ethical certification standards.

The Plan Vivo Foundation will also be presenting the updated 2012 Plan Vivo Standard for Community Payments for Ecosystem Services Programmes. The updated standard covers a range of community-based land use activities, which can generate quantifiable climate and ecosystem service benefits, and support local livelihood development and ecosystem restoration.

The launch event will include interactive workshop sessions so that stakeholders can better understand how they can work together to support and measure climate-smart agriculture. A detailed agenda will be shared in the coming weeks.

Who
The event is jointly hosted by PwC and the Plan Vivo Foundation with funding support from the Rockefeller Foundation. PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change (S&CC) practice won Consultancy of the Year at the Business Green Leaders Awards in 2011 and 2012. With a global network of 700 experts and a team of more than 100 specialists in the UK, PwC is a leading advisor on sustainability, climate change and green growth.

The Plan Vivo Foundation is a UK charity established to support rural communities with natural resource management, climate action, ecosystem restoration and livelihood development. The Foundation administers the ‘Plan Vivo Standard’ which is already being used to support over 10,000 rural smallholders and community groups via Payments for Ecosystem Services Programmes.

Why attend
The event provides an opportunity to learn about new technical tools, standards and funding models that could enable a scalable and cost effective approach to support adoption of smallholder climate-smart agriculture and sustainable land use in developing countries. The event also provides an opportunity to meet with a range of stakeholders including:

Agribusinesses and retail and consumer businesses working with smallholders in their supply chains
Donors supporting adoption of climate-smart agriculture amongst smallholder farmers
NGOs, project developers and carbon market investors engaged in agricultural Payment for Ecosystem services and carbon offsetting
Academics researching the benefits of climate-smart agriculture

When
Wednesday 31 October 0830 – 1200

Where
PwC, 7 More London Riverside, London, SE1 2RT

Please let us know whether you are able to join us by Monday 15 October so that we can finalise our catering arrangements (breakfast will be provided). If you have any questions regarding the event please get in touch with Liz Daniels at elizabeth.m.daniels@uk.pwc.com.

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2nd-3rd Nov 2011 | Plan Vivo at Carbon Forum Asia

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Meet Plan Vivo at Carbon Forum Asia, 2nd-3rd November 2011, Singapore

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Alexa Morrison from the Plan Vivo Foundation will be participating in the following session at Carbon Forum Asia in Singapore on the 2nd November, Asia Pacific’s leading annual Trade Fair & Conference for Climate and Carbon Finance.

Session Title: Forest Carbon & REDD in Asia

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 2nd, 1:15pm-2:15pm

Panel:

Moderator: Edit Kiss, Carbon Portfolio Manager - Eneco

Speakers:

- Darius Sarshar, Director - New Forests Asia, Singapore

- Alexa Morrison, Governance and Policy Director - Plan Vivo Foundation, New Zealand

- Unna Chokkalingam, Scientist - Forest Carbon Asia, Lao PDR

For more information go to the event website.

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30th June 2011 | Plan Vivo Million Tonnes Celebration, London

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30th June 2011 | Plan Vivo Million Tonnes Celebration, London

The Plan Vivo Foundation is very pleased to announce the issuance of the one millionth Plan Vivo Certificate.

This means that plan vivos (land management plans drawn up by rural smallholders and community groups) have been implemented to collectively sequester or reduce over 1,000,000 tonnes of CO₂.

This milestone helps to demonstrate that rural communities can participate in the voluntary carbon market, reach scale and generate verifiable carbon benefits. The Plan Vivo System is working for thousands of smallholders and forest-user groups in developing countries, channelling carbon finance effectively to the rural poor.

The Plan Vivo Foundation would like to take this milestone as an opportunity to recognise the input and commitment of all Plan Vivo stakeholders for collectively bringing us to this landmark.

Plan Vivo stakeholders are celebrating this event with a gathering, hosted by the Markit Environmental Registry, in London on the 30th June. If you would like to attend, please contact Elaine Muir: Elaine@planvivofoundation.org

Event details:

When: 30th June, 4.30pm – 7pm

Where: Markit, Level 4 Ropemaker Place, 25 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9LY

What: Q&A Panel with key Plan Vivo stakeholders, followed by a drinks and canapés reception

Who: Plan Vivo stakeholders, organisations and individuals with an interest in pro-poor, community carbon

The event is hosted by the Markit Environmental Registry, and sponsored by U&W, Tetrapak and the FIA Foundation.

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12th-13th May 2011 | Plan Vivo at the Forestry, Biomass and Sustainability Conference, London

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Forestry, Biomass and Sustainability Conference 2011

12-13th May | Dexter House, Royal Mint Court, London EC3

The Plan Vivo Foundation is participating in the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference. The conference will provide updates on – and analysis of – developments in policy, economics and financing of biomass and forestry projects.

The Foundation is participating in the panel, ‘Forests and Biodiversity’, taking place on Friday 13th at 3.45pm.

If you would like to organise a meeting with the Plan Vivo Foundation please email Alexa Morrison: Alexa@planvivofoundation.org

For more information about the conference visit: http://www.environmental-finance.com/events/view/27

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31st Jan – 2nd Feb 2011 | Plan Vivo at the Asia REDD+ Working Group meeting, New Delhi

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Plan Vivo at the Asia REDD+ Working Group meeting, New Delhi | 31st Jan 2011

From the 31st January to 2nd February 2011, the Plan Vivo Foundation will be participating in the inaugural meeting of the Asia REDD+ Working Group in New Delhi.

This meeting is hosted by Community Forestry International and TERI with support from the Ford Foundation, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and DFID.

The purpose of the meeting is to gather together representatives from REDD projects, including the Plan Vivo project under development in Nepal, in order to create a regional overview of emerging learning and experience, and discuss certification routes, financing opportunities, methods for securing community rihts and involvement, and methodological development for quantifying carbon services.

To read about how the Plan Vivo System is already being used to support REDD+ development, click here.

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5th December 2010| Forest Day 4: Mexico’s experience in promoting community forest enterprises, Cancun

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“Mexico’s experience in promoting community forest enterprises”

Sunday 5th December 2010

Elsa Esquivel of Ambio, the coordinator of the Scolel Te Plan Vivo programme, will be speaking atthe following event at Forest Day 4 in Cancun, hosted by CIFOR:

Moderator
David Bray, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University
Keynote address
Leticia Merino, Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Panellists

Juan Manuel Torres Rojo, Director General, CONAFOR
Elsa Esquivel Bazan, Coordinator for REDD Pilot Project, El Ocote AMBIO, Mexico
Carlos Marcelo Pérez González, Coordinador Técnico de Servicios Ambientales de Oaxaca (SAO AC)
Alfonso Argüelles. Asesor del Ejido de Noh Bec, Quintana Roo

16.45-17.45
Forest Day 4 venue
Sunday 5th December
Cancun Center, Conventions and Exhibitions
Boulevard Kukulcan KM. 9 1er Piso
Zona Hotelera

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