CarbonPlus Program

EcoLogic’s CarbonPlus program is engaged in the forest carbon field at multiple levels ranging from policy to implementation.

The CarbonPlus program's ultimate goal is to implement forest carbon projects on-the-ground in Central America and Mexico.  We will provide both financial support and technical services to local community organizations who share this goal. We refuse carbon credit ownership from projects in order to maximize revenues for local communities. 

Although CarbonPlus is focused on project development, we also recognize our responsibility to develop the emergent forest carbon field.  We are involved with both capacity building to create forest carbon community leaders and engaged in standards development to ensure that emerging standards are scientifically justified and locally viable. 

Policy Development: CarbonPlus staff assist with preventing deforestation, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), Improved Forest Managment (IFM), Reforestation (A/R), and Carbon projects.  Please see our advisory services page for a list of services we provide to project proponents.

Capacity Building: CarbonPlus led a field trip on carbon monitoring at Bosques Pico Bonito, Honduras for over 60 community leaders and local NGO staff in August, 2010. CarbonPlus also conducted a forest monitoring workshop for its own field staff in Guatemala in October, 2010.

Standards Development: CarbonPlus staff actively participate in the development of both Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Mexico and international Plan Vivo forestry protocols as members of the technical committees for these standards.