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Carbon Credit from Community Forests for Sustainability

A Thailand-wide community-forest carbon programme run by the Mae Fah Luang Foundation together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Royal Forestry Department and the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organisation.

10 provinces, Thailand (Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Lampang, Mae Hong Son, Kamphaeng Phet, Uthai Thani, Yasothon, Amnat Charoen, Krabi)Community forestThailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program (T-VER)
OperatorMae Fah Luang Foundation, with the Royal Forestry Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and TGO
EcosystemCommunity forest
StandardThailand Voluntary Emission Reduction Program (T-VER)
StatusActive
Location10 provinces, Thailand (Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Lampang, Mae Hong Son, Kamphaeng Phet, Uthai Thani, Yasothon, Amnat Charoen, Krabi)
Overview

Inside the project

Initiated in 2021, the project had registered 23,526 hectares across 120 communities in ten provinces as part of the national T-VER programme by 2023.

The Foundation's own description frames its role as empowering local communities to register carbon sequestration under T-VER.

23,526 ha
Registered 2021-2023
120
Communities

Objectives

  • Register community forests under Thailand's T-VER programme
  • Empower local communities to collect carbon sequestration

Approach

  • Community-forest carbon registration under Thailand's national T-VER programme.

Sources

Inspect 2 sources
  1. maefahluang.org ↗https://www.maefahluang.org/en/domestic-program-08/
  2. earthjournalism.net ↗https://earthjournalism.net/stories/evaluating-carbon-credits-in-thai-community-forests

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