Scolel Té Plan Vivo Project

Project details
Start date: 
January 1996
Project name: 
Scolel Té Plan Vivo Project
Carbon Yield: 
50,000 tCO2 per annum
Project type: 
Community-based sustainable land use project.
Standard: 
Plan Vivo (The Plan Vivo System)
Verification: 
Project validation and registration in 1996

Scolel Té Plan Vivo Project (the tree that grows’) is a community-based sustainable land use project in central and northern Chiapas and northeast Oxaca, southern Mexico.

Verifiable CO2 sequestration (emission reduction) benefits are generated as a result of a range of land use activities involving:

  • Afforestation and reforestation
  • Agroforestry
  • Forest restoration
  • Avoided deforestation

In addition to carbon sequestration and reduction benefits, the project delivers a host of environmental and social co-benefits, including biodiversity maintenance and poverty reduction.

Environmental co-benefits:

  • Conservation of threatened ecosystems and native species
  • Strengthening of protected areas
  • Biodiversity maintenance
  • Watershed protection
  • Soil stabilisation
  • Regulation of regional micro-climates
  • Specific biodiversity co-benefits:
  • Restoration of degraded pine-oak forest in upland areasProtection and restoration of endangered Tropical Montane Cloud Forest
  • Expansion plan being developed for creation of buffer zone around El Ocote Biosphere Reserve - a biodiversity hotspot that is home to over 2,000 plant and 5,500 animal species

Social co-benefits:

  • Increased resilience and ability to adapt to climate change
  • Poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods through improved agricultural productivity, income from timber, fruits, nuts and nontimber forest products, payments for ecosystem services
  • Improved social capital through participatory planning, capacity-building, transfer of knowledge and skills, stronger community structures, reduced dependency on aid
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