Scolel'te Community Carbon Project (Chiapas, Mexico)
World's oldest operational carbon market project (1994), led by indigenous and mestizo farming communities in Chiapas under Plan Vivo. Covers 9,150 ha …
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Most practices in: Mexico (12)
World's oldest operational carbon market project (1994), led by indigenous and mestizo farming communities in Chiapas under Plan Vivo. Covers 9,150 ha …
Mexico's national government PES scheme (CONAFOR) compensates forest owners ~USD 24/ha/yr to conserve 4.27 million ha of priority watersheds; 78% of payments …
Since the late 1990s, Mexican NGO GECI has removed 60 populations of 13 invasive mammal species from 39 Pacific islands, restoring 85% …
Since 2002/2003, a municipal water-tariff trust in Coatepec, Veracruz has paid forest owners to conserve cloud forest in the Gavilanes watershed — …
Quintana Roo's state government created the Mesoamerican Reef's first insurance-backed trust, using a hotel-bed tax to fund reef maintenance and buy parametric …
Mexico's first metropolitan water fund — corporate contributions from ARCA Continental, Heineken and CEMEX secure 2,796 ha under PES and ~9,000 ha …
WWF-Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Fund has paid ejido and community landowners in the reserve's core zone not to log oyamel fir forest since …
Since 2004, UNAM's Chinampa Refugio Project has worked with Xochimilco farmers to rehabilitate canal-farming plots recharged partly by treated wastewater, building axolotl …
Mexico City pays communities in its 87,000+ hectare Suelo de Conservación to protect forests and aquifer recharge. Since 2019, Altépetl Bienestar has …
Mexico City turned over 1,000 elevated-highway pillars into vertical gardens using closed-loop rainwater irrigation, but its founder and the city itself now …
Mexico City covered over 1,000 highway columns with vertical gardens funded via roadside advertising from 2016, but a no-bid contract, an undisclosed …
Mexico's government built a railway across the Yucatán Peninsula and is now running a compensation programme — wildlife crossings, species relocation, reforestation …
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