Category: Mexico
Mexican Carbon Trust Fund
FOMECAR is a nonprofit trust fund that provides technical and financial support for CDM projects in Mexico. The Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, S.N.C. (Bancomext) created Chapter One of the Mexican Carbon Trust Fund (FOMECAR) in 2006, together with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT) and the Mario Molina Center for Strategic Energy and Environment Studies (Centro Mario Molina para Estudios Estratégicos...
Mexico Forest Protocol
The
Climate Action Reserve, with a diverse set of stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, private sector and landowners in the United States of America and Mexico, is developing a Forest Protocol for
use throughout Mexico. The development of the protocol has intended to align with the Mexico's National REDD+ Strategy and with California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) in attempts to link REDD+ activities in Mexico with California's compliance market. The protocol aims to...
Specific Investment Loan for Forests and Climate Change
The Specific Investment Loan (SIL) for Forests and Climate Change is a USD 350 million national investment operation to support the Government of Mexico in institutional strengthening and inter-institutional cooperation, and in incentive programmes for community strengthening, sustainable forest management and the payment for forest environmental services. The SIL forms one of four components of the World Bank's Forests and Climate Change Cooperation Package in Mexico. The other three...
Mexican Forest Fund
The
Mexican Forest Fund was established as an instrument to promote conservation and
forest restoration. It was established in accordance with the General Law for Sustainable Forest Development (Article 142). The fund facilitates access
to financial assistance and promotes projects which contribute to increase competitiveness in the Mexican forest sector.
Development Policy Loan to Strengthen Social Resilience to Climate Change
This project aims to institutionalise policies aimes at strengthening social resilience to extreme situations, in particular those caused by climate change. In 2011, the Government of Mexico requested a USD 300 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) from the World Bank for this purpose. In March 2012, the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved the USD 300.75 million DPL. The DPL will enhance policy coordination and participatory processes and envisages action in three main areas: 1)...
Support Fund for Non-Regulated Agrarian Nuclei
The National Agrarian Registry (RAN), through the Support Fund for Non-Regulated Agrarian Nuclei (Fondo de Apoyo para los Núcleos Agrarios sin Regularizar, FANAR), regularises ejidos in order to offer legal and documentary certainty on land tenancy to landowners (ejidatarios) living in rural properties (ejidos) not regulated under the Programme for the Certification of Ejido Land Rights and the Titling of Urban House Plots (Programa de Certificación de Derechos Ejidales y Titulación de...
Carbon capture and emission reductions in the ejido Reforma Agraria, Marques de Comillas, Chiapas
The
project in the ejido Reforma Agraria
started in 2006. The project has aimed to increase carbon stocks, reduce emissions from deforestation, improve productive management activities
and enhance community infrastructure. The project involved capacity building in local communities to allow the management, development and trade of stored
carbon, and the monitoring and evaluation of carbon in forest ecosystems. The project aimed to improve the efficiency of productive activities to promote...
Much Kanan K´aax
Much Kanan K’aax is Mayan for ‘Together taking care
of the jungle’. Much Kanan K’aax is a carbon project, established in 2006, working with ejidos to promote the recovery of the
Yucatan Peninsula’s culturally and ecologically important rainforest. The
project engages in forest recovery, through agroforestry and reforestation
projects, and in avoided deforestation through improved forest management. Carbon
finance generates additional income for community members (ejidatarios) engaging in...
Programme for the Certification of Ejido Land Rights and the Titling of Urban House Plots
The Programme for the Certification of Ejido Land Rights and the Titling of Urban House Plots (Programa de Certificación de Derechos Ejidales y Titulación de Solares, PROCEDE) was a government instrument responsible for regulating social property.
The programme´s main objective was to offer legal certainty surrounding land tenure by granting individual property certificates to ejidatarios (land owners). PROCEDE formally ended in December 2006.The Ministry of the Agrarian Reform (...
Special Programme for Sustainable Rural Development 2007-2012
The PEC defines Mexico’s overall rural development
strategy and coordinates the actions of several government agencies. Regarding
REDD+ and under the environmental principle, some of the PEC’s goals and
objectives intend to promote an increase in carbon stocks (e.g.,
reforestation), reduce environmental deterioration, promote sustainable forest
management and reduce forest fires. Furthermore, through the PEC’s strategic
principles, it intends to strengthen environmental criteria in forestry and...
