An integrated effort towards Going beyond offsetting to a sustainable future develop fairer carbon credits

Our organization is dedicated to value-added carbon capture and sequestration through sustainable forestry projects. We empower and make partners of traditional communities living in close proximity to tracts of natural forest where biodiversity is high, but under threat. Community members work with us to protect The surrouding foliage and extend forest coverage while preserving biodiversity and restoring ecosystems under expert supervision.

The projects conducted by Conservation Carbon Company follow robust, globally The .... recognized standard certification The first seedlings procedures to generate traceable voluntary carbon credits certificates, providing buyers with definitive ownership of carbon services.

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Going beyond carbon, helping communities adapt to climate risks

THE HINIDUMA BIO-LINK PROJECT, international carbon markets. As such this project will be financed through the The Hiniduma Bio-Link project, Sri money generated from the sale of these Lanka offers value-added carbon credits carbon credits. Hence this project will for socially and environmentally concious only be viable over the long term if long organizations and individuals. term investors and corporate partnerships are established. The Hiniduma Biolink Project is a reforesting project that will establish a biodiversity corridor inbetween the two large remnant rainforest patches, In establishing this project, we have Singharaja and Kenneliya, in Sri Lanka. followed the Plan Vivo Standard, a well The Conservation Carbon Company reputed and globally accepted standard. (CCC) in partnership with Rainforest The field level Verification was done by a Rescue International (RRI) will use the third party forestry expert from England. analog forestry concept to conserve We have taken steps to register the carbon approximately 23,473 ha buffer zones credits under a well-known registry called around the forest edges. the Markit Registry

The uniqueness of the projects is that .(www.markitenvironmental.com) it addresses the three pillars of sustainability; people, planet and profit, as farmers gain financially and have a financial incentive to protect the surrounding forests. The CO2 sequestered through this project (the newly planted trees) will generate carbon credits that can be sold as Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) credits in the local and

The Conservation Carbon Company : No 15 Havelock Place Colombo 05 : www.conservecarbon.org PLAN VIVO!

Introduction issue credits for planting exotic Vivo System in line with legally Plan Vivo is a standard for species. defined charitable objectives. designing and certifying community-  The Plan Vivo system based payments for ecosystem encourages diverse interventions Plan Vivo projects are third- services using a range of land-use systems. party validated and verified by an Plan vivo came about as a result Each participant plans their activities accredited auditor at least every 5 of a small-scale research project, in around their land availability, years to ensure continuous 1994, in rural Mexico, partners conditions, and livelihood needs, conformance to the Plan Vivo involved in the development of this creating their own ‘plan Standard. project include Edinburg Center for vivo’ (management plan). This results Stakeholder–led development: Carbon Management, the University in a mosaic of interventions across a Plan Vivo has a wide network of of Edinburg, El Colegio de la landscape, helping to minimize stakeholders, whose input is essential Fronterra Sur and several other local project risks. Diverse interventions to the development of Plan Vivo as a partners. The first Plan Vivo was help to build more resilient robust and accessible system. The drawn up by farmer Antonio Gomez ecosystems, capable of adapting to Standard is periodically reviewed in Demesa in Chiapas in 1996. stresses. close consultation with these stakeholders, including annual The plan vivo system provides the meetings providing opportunities for framework needed for the lesson sharing and collaboration. development and maintenance of Independent registry: All Plan land management systems, which has Vivo Certificate issuances are the full involvement of the local recorded, with serial numbers, in the community. The systems ensure that Markit Environmental Registry, an there are benefits in terms of carbon, independent registry enabling livelihoods as well as communities. transparent credit issuances, transfers and retirements. More Plan Vivo Plan Vivo projects emphasizes Certificates are retired in the Markit the planting of native species to  The Plan Vivo system Environmental Registry (Dec 2010) ensure trees planted are adapted to encourages the use of agroforestry than any other forest carbon credit local conditions and provide systems to help rural farmers diversify type. ecosystem services beyond carbon, activities, increase crop productivity, such as soil stability, watershed and reduce land degradation. protection and habitat for biodiversity. Through securing the Plan Vivo is an Independent, not supply of ecosystem services, for profit certification: The Plan Vivo community land becomes more Foundation is registered as a charity resilient to potential future stresses. in Scotland and provides not-for- Plan Vivo is the only standard not to profit certification services to Plan Vivo projects, and develops the Plan

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1. Recommended by Carbon Trust in the UK as one of only four VER standards that meet valid criteria - verification, additionality, leakage, impermanence, and double accounting.

2. Stakeholders and supporters include the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), WWF, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Conservation Union (IUCN), Clinton and Hunter Foundations, Mercy Corps, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Rainforest Alliance.

3. Previous buyers include World Bank, FIA (Formula One Foundation), Man Group plc, The Carbon Neutral Company (TCNC), Tetra Pak – over half a million tonnes in total.

4. Plan Vivo Standards reviewed in WWF-commissioned report Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards, March,2008.

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A first in the World, this unique garment was created by offsetting the carbon footprint emitted during its production through the purchase of carbon credits. These credits were purchased through The Conservation Carbon Company from the Hiniduma Bio-Link Project.