Category: Mexico
REDD+ Community Project, Amanalco Municipality, State of Mexico
The Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry (Consejo Civil Mexicano Para la Silvicultura Sostenible, CCMSS) is working in a number of municipalities and forest regions to develop REDD+ strategies. The project 'REDD Community' is located in: the Copalita River Basin in Oaxaca, the Municipality of Jose Maria Morelos in Quintana Roo, the City of Calakmul in Campeche, the Amanalco Municipality in the State of Mexico and Selva Zoque in Chiapas. The project works with communities and...
REDD+ Community Project, Jose Maria Morelos Municipality, Quintana Roo
The Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture (Consejo Civil Mexicano Para la Silvicultura Sostenible, CCMSS) is working in a number of municipalities and forest regions for the development of REDD+ strategies. The project 'REDD Community' is located in: the Copalita River Basin in Oaxaca, the Municipality of Jose Maria Morelos in Quintana Roo, the City of Calakmul in Campeche, the Amanalco Municipality in the State of Mexico and Selva Zoque in Chiapas. The project works with...
Carbon Sequestration in Indigenous and Rural Communities in Oaxaca
Servicios Ambientales de Oaxaca A.C. (SAO) has developed carbon sequestration projects in response to the prevailing environmental degradation and the high rates of deforestation throughout Mexico. Servicios Ambientales de Oaxaca A.C. (SAO) is an non-governmental organisation based in Oaxaca that has helped to establish REDD+ projects in several communities in Oaxaca. Initially involved in the Clean Development Mechanism, under the Kyoto Protocol, difficulties associated with poor integration...
Carbon Sequestration in 'El Zapotal' Private Reserve
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan (PPY) purchased El Zapotal, a 2,400 hectare propoerty, in order to reduce pressure from land use conversion and to work with local communities and landowners. TNC and PPY have assisted local communities in obtaining annual funding from the National Forestry Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal, CONAFOR) of more than USD 1 million to manage and protect their lands. PPY has implemented a project within the private reserve. The...
Climate Change Action Programme for the State of Chiapas
State level climate change action programmes (Programas Estatales de Acción ante el Cambio Climático; PEACC) are instruments to support planning and development of public policies on climate change at the state level. These programmes aim to strengthen the decentralisation process and sustain policies and actions related to climate change at the state level.Development of the Climate Change Action Programme for
the State of Chiapas started in 2009 and was released in December 2010. The...
ProArbol
In order to promote Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Mexico, the Federal Government, through the National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR), launched two initiatives: the Programme for Hydrological Environmental Services (Programa de Servicios Ambientales Hidrologicas - PSAH) in 2003, and the Payments for Carbon, Biodiversity and Agroforestry Services (Programa para el Desarrollo de los Mercados deServicios Ambientales de Captura de Carbono y los Derivados de la Biodiversidad ypara Fomentar...
ProÁrbol
ProArbol is
a Federal Government programme designed to conserve and restore forests and
vegetation in semi-arid regions. It is not a programme by itself but rather an
umbrella of 45 programmes managed by the National Forest Commission (Comision Nacional Forestal; CONAFOR).
The programme intends to fight poverty while recovering forest land and
increasing forest productivity. Each programme under ProArbol has its own
eligibility rules and favour projects in ejdos
and communities in highly...
Mitigating Climate Change through Sustainable Forest Management and Capacity Building in the Southern States of Mexico (States of Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca)
The
project aims to contribute to climate change mitigation through improving forest
management, for both a reduction in emissions from deforestation and an increase
in forest carbon storage potential, while enhancing adaptation and resilience to
climate change effects on forest ecosystems. The project is active within the highly marginalised regions of the states of Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca
The
project has three components: 1) Carbon
monitoring capacity building in local communities; 2)...
EDF collaboration with government authorities and CSOs to follow the REDD+ process and provide relevant expertise at the National and State level
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has been working with Mexican government authorities and civil society organisations to enhance their capacity to engage with the REDD+ process. EDF has been providing expertise at the sub-national level.For example, in coordination with the National Forestry Commission (Comisión Nacional Forestal, CONAFOR) and in collaboration with
Conservation International, EDF is developing the Open Source Impacts of REDD+
Incentive Spreadsheet for Mexico (OSIRIS...
Technical Support on Carbon Accounting (Canada-Mexico)
Under a Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and Mexico (Alianza Canadá-México, AMC) signed in 2004, that addresses energy, environment, forests and sustainability in urban areas, Canada is supporting the Mexican Government in applying the Canadian carbon accounting model, the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3). Mexico is using the CBM-CFS3 to better understand the linkages between forests and climate change and analyse how different forest management and land-...
