Projects

ECCM has been working on a number of innovative development and applied research projects, including:

Plan Vivo System
The Plan Vivo System is a replicable system for establishment and management of community carbon sequestration projects in developing countries. The system and its application is described in detail on this website.

Scolel Té
The Plan Vivo system has been applied very successfully under the Scolel Te project, enabling the transfer of funds from European companies to rural communities in Mexico. Purchasers of carbon from the project include the FIA and the World Bank prototype carbon fund (PCF).

CLIMAFOR
Under the CLIMAFOR research project, funded by DFID, ECCM investigated methodologies for assessing regional carbon baselines and developed generic Plan Vivo systems.

Carbonsink-LBA
The EU funded Carbon Sink project, is a collaborative project investigating the implications of changes in the Amazonian carbon sink on global and European greenhouse gas policies.

Note that these projects are hosted on separate websites.