Tree Planting Service
If you prefer to support the actual tree planting services without claiming any credits from the service you can contact the following persons to initiates discussion.
Alexandre Sarmento
Chief Executive Officer of FCOTI
+670 77735453
info@carbonoffsettimor.com
Ben Bardon
Marketting Officer and Adviser
+61 408 656 928
bbardon@strategy3.com.au
Brooke Hyatt
GTNT Focal Point and Adviser
+61 458 003 030
Brooke.Hyatt@gtntgroup.com.au
A certificate of will be issued by FCOTI to recognize the support.
Our role as a carbon sales agent
FCOTI will be the carbon sales agent on behalf of GTNT based on Service Agreement between FCOTI and GTNT for the project.
FCOTI has formed a 30 year PES agreement with the farmers to implement community based reforestation project.
At the current scale the project will not be able to pay for future plantings from the sale of carbon credits. Annual tree plantings will either be funded from international donor funding or through tree sales to individuals or progressive organisations.
Responsibilities of farmers
Participating small holder farmers will be responsible for:
Preparing their land and planting the trees
Water weed and mulch the tree for the first three years
Following the agreed maintenance and thinning program
Measure and count the tree annually
BENEFITS AND RIGHTS
Participate in the training FCOTI provides to help them achieve the targets as described above;
Receive an annual carbon payment for eligible trees for ten years per planting site
Our vision
Growing communities for a world worth living in
Our Responsibilies
FCOTI with the long term backing of GTNT will be responsible for:
Providing annual training for farmers that want to become involved
Provide training for existing farmers to ensure they maintain and account for their trees accurately
Introduce other funding and donor partners to the scheme to pay for additional plantings
Sell the carbon credits to institutional buyers
Manage the ex-ante payments in a trust fund with co signatories from framer representatives
Verify farmer estimates of tree growth and survival
Organise annual payments to farmers
Ensure farmers will get a maximum of 10 annual payments per planting site
Benefit Sharing
60% of all carbon sales and tree planting income will go directly to farming families that participate in the project.
FCOTI will use the balance of the funds to undertake project support activities and create a project cash contingency to be able to undertake verification and validation activities for the 30-year life of the project.
The contingency is established to ensure that:
Verification and validation activities can occur even if the growth phase of the project ceases after say 10- years.
Verification and validation can extend beyond the 30-year life of the project if the project continues to grow up to and beyond the current 30-year timeframe.