Plan Vivo

A certification system for community-led climate and nature projects, with its PV Climate and PV Nature standards and a PV Climate registry.

Projects

Smallholder agroforestry replacing monoculture and cattle across four departments

A locally led forest-carbon initiative across Choiseul province's Babatana language group.

Described by Mongabay as Fiji's first indigenous-owned carbon-credit project, on Vanua Levu since 2012.

Community-led regeneration of degraded Afromontane landscapes in Tigray, with a majority of credit income flowing back to local groups.

A Plan Vivo REDD+ project run by a federation of Khasi traditional governments.

Community-led miombo enrichment and agroforestry, certified under Plan Vivo's PV Climate standard.

Described by its partner ACES as the world's first community-led mangrove blue carbon project, in Kenya's Gazi Bay.

Integrated restoration and agroforestry in an Eastern Arc endemism hotspot, using around 120 native tree species.

A Plan Vivo-certified agroforestry programme across the Sahel, framed as a Great Green Wall contribution.

Native-species planting and assisted regeneration with the Indigenous Miskito people of La Mosquitia.

Described by Plan Vivo as the world's longest-running ecosystem services project on the Voluntary Carbon Market, running since 1994.

Ten Vezo communities protect the Bay of Assassins mangroves in a Plan Vivo project.

A performance-based smallholder agroforestry scheme running since 2003, now spanning 26 districts of Uganda's Albertine Rift.

A community mangrove project in Kenya, scaling the Gazi Bay model to 460 hectares.

A community-owned forest carbon project protecting a wildlife corridor in northern Tanzania, developed with Hadza hunter-gatherer communities.