The Guatamalan Conservation Coast, Central America

Water-line meeting trees and forests in the Guatemalan project

To ensure that you can drive carbon neutral, Shell supports carbon offset projects around the world. Through an accreditation process, these projects have demonstrated that CO₂ emissions have been avoided or taken from the atmosphere.

Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards

Close up of man picking small berries from a tree

Projects

Protecting forest ecosystems

Located in Izabal, on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala, the project finances the establishment of new nature reserves and supports existing natural forests which are under threat from deforestation and unsuitable land use activities.

The project area is highly important for biodiversity conservation, local water supply and its revenue supports agroforestry ecosystems and the growth of eco-tourism.

Creating enterprises

We have helped to support and create 7 sustainable enterprises.
Forest protection

59,941 hectares of intact threatened forest has been protected
Protecting high value conservation species

We have protected 30 high conservation value species
Carbon credits

The scheme is generating 610,000 million carbon credits per year, on average