The Permanence Trust Webinar

Nature-based solutions have a permanence problem. These projects have long struggled with how to manage non-permanence risk in their design—that is, how to ensure the impact of nature-based credits is equivalent to the emissions they seek to offset.

Experts at the American Forest Foundation have developed a new concept to address this: the Permanence Trust. The trust—envisioned as an independent, market-wide entity—relies on models that suggest how many financial resources should be set aside today to grow and be actively used to manage non-permanence risk and eventually fully retire the permanence liability.

In this webinar, Lead Scientist Lynn Riley, Executive Vice President of Climate Funding Nathan Truitt from the American Forest Foundation, and Market Engagement Senior Manager Mikela Waldman from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) discuss the Permanence Trust concept and its implementation and market-wide scalability.