First leaflet on the flagship project in Mozambique - Envirotrade

www.envirotrade.co.uk — a new way of doing business
investing in forest communities and bio-diversity to combat global warming
Envirotrade Limited, a UK based company, is
developing a unique social forestry model that address
the challenges of climate change, sustainable
development and poverty in the developing world in
conjunction with the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon
Management (ECCM).
The business is commercially viable by selling carbon
offsets generated by sequestration through a
combination of reforestation, agro-forestry and forest
management. A percentage of the revenues raised
through carbon trading are paid back to farmers who
plant trees on their land and the Plan Vivo carbon
registry model successfully developed in Mexico by
ECCM to ensure returns.
Envirotrade works with small local farmers and forest
product users to adopt new and sustainable methods of
land-use; it works with these communities to grow and
plant indigenous trees, nitrogen fixing species and fruit
trees over the long-term (no less than 25 years), and
aims to encourage bio-diversity through the restoration
of forest habitats. Forest communities benefit on three
fronts: from better and more varied food production; an
enriched and biodiverse
environment; and an additional reliable income
from carbon sequestration.
Traditionally, economic development and environmental
conservation and biodiversity have been in tense
conflict. Envirotrade has set itself the task of shifting
that destructive paradigm; reshaping the relationship
between forest communities and their environment, and
between the environment, economic development and
business. The imperatives of economic development and
biodiversity are no longer in competition. A new type of
land use project, driven by livelihood creation in areas
were unsustainable use of natural resources threatens
biodiversity, brings two often conflicting currents
together to mutual advantage.
Plan Vivo enables communities to translate the value of
natural resources into social and other capital to ensure
food security and sustainable livelihoods. Plan Vivo s
not a monoculture forestry initiative driven solely by
carbon trading – it addresses the issues of social equity,
poverty alleviation and biodiversity in equal measure.
Envirotrade Ltd. (UK)
Suite K3 Cumbrian House, 217 Marsh Wall
LONDON, E14 9FJ, UNITED KINGDOM
+44 1937 579945 (t) 573131 (f)
mail@envirotrade.co.uk
Sustainable land-use projects and their
ability to sequester or "recycle"' carbon is
the engine that drives Envirotrade.
Envirotrade’s projects are a catalyst for better land-use,
a social agent for alleviating poverty in the developing
world and a champion for community empowerment. In
the Plan Vivo, local farmers take ownership of the
carbon assets so they become self-sustaining, and are
able to break the cycle of dependence on external aid
and NGO’s to shape their own future.
Envirotrade works together with forest communities to
grow trees that the community will nurture throughout
the sequestration cycle small farmers are assisted to
maximise food production paid a % of the carbon
trading revenue. The farmers own the trees and land
rights. Envirotrade owns neither the land nor the trees.
Envirotrade is not a charity. It ploughs investment into
poor local communities and their degraded environments
and brokers carbon sequestered by habitat rehabilitation
on the international market to build livelihoods.
Envirotrade aims to enrich the lives of small farmers,
promote biodiversity and mitigate global warming while
creating a healthy and sustainable business for the
future. It is set to create a shift that will bring about
enormous and positive social, economic and
environmental change to the developing world.