Envirotrade Carbon Livelihoods Programme

The Mozambique Carbon Livelihoods Trust (MCLT) was launched in 2007 to ensure that the community and individual farmer proceeds of carbon offset sales from Carbon Livelihoods projects in Mozambique were safeguarded. Approximately one third of the proceeds of any carbon sale go directly to this fund and are paid out to individual farmers over seven years, to the community trust funds annually and in other payments for forest management and conservation.

The Carbon Livelihoods Trust will work closely with associated community associations to ensure that the sustainable livelihoods are built and that far reaching land-use change takes place in target communities in and around protected areas.

It sounds too good to be true: a way of tackling not one but several threats to mankind at once. The money that communities in Mozambique earn from CO2 offset sales through our Carbon Livelihoods Programme, allows them to make the switch from 'slash-and-burn' agriculture to sustainable food production.

The Mozambique Carbon Livelihoods Trust (MCLT) was launched in 2007 to ensure that the community and individual farmer proceeds of carbon offset sales from Carbon Livelihoods projects in Mozambique were safeguarded.