About Tayo
Tayo Climate Partners Inc. is a Canadian-Filipino NBS consulting firm, newly incorporated in 2025, with core expertise in voluntary market AFOLU carbon project development. Its four founding members together have over 50 years of combined experience in forest project development, working with different financial mechanisms ranging from voluntary carbon market (VCM) offsetting, to Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), to compliance protocols such as the British Columbia Forest Carbon Offset Protocol (FCOP).
With offices in both Vancouver, Canada and Manila, Philippines, Tayo’s expertise ranges across technical, financial, and qualitative elements of NBS project design.
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Quantification
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.
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Smallholder Systems
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.
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Risk Management
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.
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Structuring of Financial Mechanisms
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.