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Guatecarbon REDD+ Project

Guatecarbon runs across roughly a third of the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Petén, held not by a single company but by eight community forestry concessions and two private timber operators, administered jointly through the FIMEFOR trust with CONAP and ACOFOP.

Maya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, GuatemalaTropical forest, community forestry concessionsVerra VCS + CCB; nested in Guatemala's national PRE (Programa Nacional de Reducción de Emisiones)
Image credit
USAID Measuring Impact Conservation Enterprise Retrospective (Guatemala; Rainforest Alliance) (40259467822). Location context only; not a photograph of project implementation.Location context · USAID Biodiversity & Forestry · Public domain · 2017 · Resized; display cropImage source ↗Licence ↗
OperatorEight community forestry concessions and two private companies, via the FIMEFOR trust, with ACOFOP and CONAP
EcosystemTropical forest, community forestry concessions
StandardVerra VCS + CCB; nested in Guatemala's national PRE (Programa Nacional de Reducción de Emisiones)
StatusActive
LocationMaya Biosphere Reserve, Petén, Guatemala
Overview

Inside the project

The project describes itself in the voice of the concession-holders themselves: 'We are community, forgers of dreams, aspirations and work. And for our planet we fight.'

It went through VCS+CCB validation in 2014 and issued its first certificates in 2015, and today sits inside Guatemala's national emissions-reduction programme rather than standing alone.

665,000 ha
Coverage (approx., 34% of the Maya Biosphere Reserve)

Objectives

  • Protect community forestry concessions across the Maya Biosphere Reserve
  • Operate nested within Guatemala's national PRE emissions-reduction programme

Approach

  • Held collectively through community forestry concessions administered via the FIMEFOR trust, with CONAP and ACOFOP as institutional partners, verified to VCS+CCB.

Sources

Inspect 2 sources
  1. guatecarbon.com ↗https://guatecarbon.com/website
  2. rainforestfoundation.org ↗https://rainforestfoundation.org/guatecarbon-redd-case-study/

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