At Tayo, we design carbon projects that work in multi-stakeholder landscapes where smallholder livelihoods, carbon finance, and community governance intersect.
The constraint on nature-based solutions is not capital it’s deployment. We specialize in making these landscapes investable: building risk management infrastructure that translates complex social and ecological systems into opportunities.
Tayo Climate Partners Inc. is a Canadian-Filipino NBS consulting firm founded in 2025, specializing in voluntary market AFOLU carbon projects.
With over 50 years of combined experience, the founding team brings deep expertise across voluntary and compliance carbon mechanisms, supported by offices in Vancouver and Manila, and delivers integrated technical, financial, and strategic NBS project design.
Tayo works across carbon standards, including Gold Standard, Verra, Plan Vivo, and the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), on the technical elements of carbon projects, quantifying emissions reductions and removals from land use transitions in forestry and agriculture. Our technical team of foresters and geospatial experts have worked across land use activity types, from Improved Forest Management (IFM) to avoided deforestation (REDD), Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation.
Tayo has a specialization in smallholder-based carbon projects, with a particular focus on rice producers implementing methane-reducing technologies, as well as on agroforestry systems for coffee and cocoa producers in Africa and Asia. As smallholders typically cultivate on less than one hectare of land specific attention to reducing transaction costs in Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) is required, as well as equitable benefit sharing agreements across stakeholder types.
From pre-feasibility screening to due diligence, to project design and the development of adaptive management plans, Tayo offers full spectrum risk management services to project proponents and investors. This includes assessment of jurisdictional risk, with a focus on regulatory considerations and demonstration of carbon rights and tenure, activity risk, particularly around avoided unplanned deforestation, and well as biophysical, socioeconomic and operational risks.
Tayo team members have extensive experience in the structuring of various carbon mechanisms, ranging from multi- stakeholder benefit sharing structures with both Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) and profit share components, to results- based green microfinance programs for smallholder farmers. Tayo also has experience in the structuring and negotiation of offtake agreements on behalf of clients.
Quantification
Tayo works across carbon standards, including Gold Standard, Verra, Plan Vivo, and the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)…
Smallholder Systems
Tayo has a specialization in smallholder-based carbon projects, with a particular focus on rice producers implementing methane…
Risk Management
From pre-feasibility screening to due diligence, to project design and the development of adaptive management plans, Tayo…
Structuring of Financial Mechanisms
Tayo team members have extensive experience in the structuring of various carbon mechanisms…
The Kwahu Landscape Restoration Project
Location
Ghana
Client
Aja Climate Solutions
Afforestation Reforestation and Revegetation
Tayo Climate Partners is the technical lead on the Kwahu Landscape Restoration Project, a flagship Aforestation/ Reforestation project run by Aja Climate Solutions and supported by Singapore’s Genzero, under an early-action UNFCCC Article 6.2 bilateral agreement between Singapore and Ghana.
Faeger Alternate Wetting and Drying
Location
Luzon, Philippines
Client
Faeger Corporation
Sustainable Rice
Alternate Wetting and Drying
Tayo Climate Partners was engaged by Faeger Corporation, a company developing carbon projects under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism, to act as government liaison and farmer engagement and training specialist in its first Alternate Wetting and Drying project in the Philippines.
FERMA
Location
Khenifra, Morocco
Client
SOCODEVI
Feasibility Assessment
Afforestation Reforestation and Revegetation
Stakeholder engagement
Deforestation
Carbon management Field Training
The FERMA project, led by Socodevi in Morocco’s Khenifra National Park area, uses comprehensive forest ecosystem management to assist 25 women’s cooperatives in building climate resilience and advancing sustainable community development.
Natur’ELLES
Location
Casamance and Sine Saloum, Senegal
Client
SOCODEVI
Blue carbon feasibility assessment
Field Training
Afforestation Reforestation and Revegetation
Avoided Unplanned Deforestation
Tayo Climate partners was engaged as a blue carbon technical expert under Socodevi’s Natur’ELLES programme – a Global Affairs Canada (GAC)-supported initiative centered around livelihood enhancement for vulnerable populations in Senegal’s Sine-Saloum Delta and Casamance regions.