• HYDROLOGICAL AND CO2 CAPTURE

    REGENERATIVE ECONOMY

Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Subnational Public Policy

Stimulate Public policy to re-green the country

We are proud to have created, in partnership with the Government of the State of Queretaro, innovative public policies that push climate action at the subnational level. These policies also help to combat poverty, climate change, support biodiversity, and the regeneration of natural infrastructure.   Our initiative known as, “Subnational Mitigation Actions for Landscape Regeneration,” creates carbon sinks in forests and soils by valuing natural capital and benefiting forest landowners.  It is a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The public policy provides revenue for beneficiaries for capturing carbon and is contributing to a circular economy for conservation.

Sub-national Climate Action

“Subnational Mitigation Actions for Landscape Regeneration” has the potential to be replicated in other states.  We want to re-green Mexico.   Together with the State Government of Querétaro we developed this methodology, which has been externally verified under five guidelines of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT). Our methodologies for robust monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) provide transparency in the reduction in carbon emissions accounted for in the state emissions inventory, and mitigate the State´s  vehicular pollution.  Querétaro´s local protocol collects a small tax from vehicles registered in the state.  The proceeds go into the State Environmental Fund.  This fund supports projects throughout the state, including payments to forest landowners for acting as conservation rangers.  When they removing livestock from their forests, the forests naturally recuperate their ability to capture carbon and perform other environmental services.

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QUERÉTARO, MÉXICO

Español:   Regeneración de Bosques y Tierras Agrícolas en la Sierra Gorda, México

English:  Regenerating Forests and Farmland in México´s Sierra Gorda

NAMA Regenerating Landscapes

Carbon for conservation. Now with our Biodiversity Carbon product, you can mitigate your own carbon emissions by compensating a local landowner for regenerating their forest to capture carbon.  We are also working to push new political policies at the state level to combat climate change and to integrate and execute our NAMA proposal at the national level.  We have converted a threat into an asset for conservation.

 Nature´s potential to regenerate gives us hope and we seek to incentivize and strengthen the regenerative processes in both forests and agricultural lands. To this end, GESG developed a NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) project:

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ICAT Guides, Local Protocol

Biodiversity Carbon is about reducing carbon footprints and is not a carbon offset bond or credit; is a tax-deductible donation. The carbon value is quantified with absorption factors from the “GHG Impact Evaluation Report for Subnational Regeneration of Forests.”  The report applies the ICAT (Initiative for Climate Action Transparency) guidelines for “Evaluating Impacts of the GHG Policies and Actions in Forests” based on the 2006 IPCC methodologies with preliminary results of research on natural regeneration in the local ecosystems with data for the Reduction and Absorption Factors of the National Inventory of Gas and Composite Emissions of the Greenhouse Effect 1990-2015 (INEGYCEI).  The report was submitted for independent technical review which concluded that the GHG impact estimate is conservative.

Currently the Biodiversity Carbon project regenerates cloud forest and pine-oak ecosystems within the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (Querétaro State) and buffer zones in the bioregion.

Regenerative Management of Soils

We are looking to return health to our soils through regenerative management.  We do this through promoting self-sufficient food production, organic food production and rescuing native seeds.  Best practices and holistic management help humus and roots become sponges for water and carbon dioxide in agricultural soils, mitigating and combating climate change.

ORGANIC FOOD

We are encouraging the production of organic food with small agricultural producers and in family gardens with homemakers.  They are also helping us rescue diversity with heirloom seeds.

REGENERATIVE LIVESTOCK MANAGEMENT

Regenerative livestock management  such as planned grazing, or rotating livestock, allows carbon and water to be stored in the soil and increases the productivity of pastures, all while eradicating the use of biochemicals in the raising of animals and the production of organic meat.

HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT

GESG transfers Holistic Management methodologies to landowners, ranchers, farmers, and gardeners, empowering them with knowledge and techniques that help them to increase the productivity of their lands, their earnings and the quality of life of their families.

GRADUATE IN HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT

We have a Savory Institute for Holistic Management certified team member on staff in Bosque Sustentable A.C.. Through Centro Tierra we offer a certification course that has graduated 8 classes, made up of technicians, university students and ranch owners.

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Arado convencional

Kassine trabajando

Tomando muestra de suelo

Preparación de biofertilizantes

Elaboración de almácigos

Práctica de campo

EL GRUPO ECOLÓGICO DE MARTHA “PATI” RUIZ CORZO

ACTIVATING LOCAL ECONOMIES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Reduce your Footprint with Biodiversity Carbon

Reduce your carbon footprint and protect Mexico´s forests together with Bosque Sustentable A.C., Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda I.A.P.y Viva Sierra Gorda.

Reduce your Carbon Footprint

  • Life is in the balance, measure your CO2 footprint and reduce it.
  • Analyze your habits as a consumer to cut down your emissions and their impact on the planet. Use our calculators to measure your footprint in tons of CO2 or choose one of our CO2 packages.  Your donation will rescue the forests and wildlife of Mexico.

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¿What is biodiversity Carbon?

  • Forests under extensive grazing suffer degradation. New growth cannot thrive and the ecosystem loses capacity to perform services like water and carbon storage.  With the exclusion of livestock from the forest, the undergrowth naturally regenerates, and habitats supporting biodiversity and the richness of the forest are recuperated.
  • Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda is achieving the regeneration of the area.

Technical Monitoring

Our carbon product has solid technical backing.  Our baseline is built upon the measurements of cloud forests and pine-oak forests in the Sierra Gorda; a Nationally unique and pioneering data set. We thoroughly monitor carbon increases in biomass, vegetation conditions, and effective protection of the property, and provide transparent follow up to ensure that our clients are contributing in a significant way to the reduction of emissions in the State of Querétaro. These activities are an example for the rest of the country in sub-national climate actions that also regenerate ecosystems.

Carbono, un activo de la conservación