What do Plan Vivo Certificates offer to buyers?

Through purchasing Plan Vivo Certificates, companies and individuals can reduce their impact on the environment whilst also contributing to rural development and ecosystem protection in communites that are often the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Plan Vivo projects produce quantified reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) through land-use activities that can provide multiple benefits to communities, for example:

• as well as sequestering carbon from the atmosphere forestry activities can provide useful products such as timber, fuelwod and fruit;
  
• extra activities such as bee-keeping, furniture making and supplying efficient stoves can be developed using carbon finance to diversify local income and build local capacity.

The Plan Vivo System promotes links between companies and communities in developing countries that are working to improve their future. Income from carbon sales enables communities to diversify their income and invest in activities that they could not otherwise afford. Plan Vivo standards ensure that the carbon credits are traceable and monitoring and payments are administered using transparent and verifiable processes.

Please read about how the Plan Vivo Certificates compare to other available options for carbon offsetting.

How to invest

To buy offsets from Plan Vivo projects, you can contact us in order to be put in touch directly with projects, or alternatively you can buy through one of our resellers, who are all registered to ensure the flow of quality information.

It is requested that buyers accept the Victoria Charter for the responsible use and sale of offsets.

Buyer register

The 'Buyer Register' contains all the relevent information about recent purchases from the Plan Vivo projects and can be used to verify that purchases take place and are recorded. Follow this link to view the register.

How is the price of Plan Vivo Certificates broken down?

The cost of long-term carbon sequestration within the project is changeable, and projects are free to determine their own prices based on their costs and local conditions. Project coordinators are responsible for safeguarding producer payments and must use the remainder of the sale price in the long-term interests of the project.
Project costs include the costs of providing technical support, training, compliance and social impact monitoring, administration costs, verification costs and costs related to project development such as additional research or extra activities such as community nurseries and energy-efficient wood burning stoves. These are additional to the payments made to farmers to incentivise and cover the costs of planting and maintenance of forest and agro-forest systems.

Read about existing Plan Vivo projects.

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