What does the Plan Vivo System offer to investors?

The Plan Vivo System offers an opportunity for companies and individuals to reduce the impact they have on the environment while contributing to rural development projects. Plan Vivo projects produce quantified reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through activities that have the potential to improve livelihoods in developing countries, for example:

• as well as sequestering carbon from the atmosphere forestry activities can provide useful products such as timber, fuelwod and fruit;
  
  
• the provision of reliable, renewable electricity to remote villages can reduce emissions from fossil fuels and improve local income through the development of cottage industries.

The Plan Vivo System allows a partnership between companies and communities in developing countries that are working to improve their future. Income from carbon sales allows communities to invest in activities that they could not otherwise afford. Plan Vivo procedures ensure that the carbon credits are registered and administered in transparent and verifiable way.

Why invest in a Plan Vivo Project?

There are a number of reasons why investors should consider Plan Vivo projects, as opposed to conventional, large-scale forestry schemes:

Real social benefits Real biodiversity benefits Transparency Strong additionality Strong foundations for permanence An ethical option Scientific and technical partnerships

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