Family Forest Blog
May 6, 2025
New Report: Forest Carbon Projects Model the Path Forward for High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Market
Revitalizing Carbon Markets from the Roots Up, predicts that prioritizing and investing in high-integrity projects could enable forests to sequester up to 300 million additional tonnes of carbon by 2030, unlocking even more supply for a demand-heavy market, while also delivering economic opportunities and conservation benefits. This becomes even more significant in a landscape where corporations are increasingly seeking solutions to mitigate climate-related risks in their operations and reach their own net zero goals.
April 7, 2025
Forester Spotlight: Mac MacKenzie
We’re excited to spotlight Mac MacKenzie, a dedicated forester with the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) who is passionate about sustainable forestry and conservation.
March 27, 2025
Statement: Disaster Reforestation Act Will Help Family Forest Owners Recover
Currently, family forest owners cannot recoup the value of their timber lost in natural disasters, making it that much harder for these owners to reinvest in the recovery of their forest. The Disaster Reforestation Act aims to fix this by amending the tax code to allow forest owners to deduct the market value of their timber destroyed by natural disasters.
March 27, 2025
The Business Case for Carbon Credits: How Reducing Emissions Increases Revenue
Sustainability Isn’t Just a Nice-to-Have. It’s Good Business. A company that demonstrates progress on decarbonization is going to be more likely to meet customer and consumer expectations, and therefore secure revenue, than a company that is unable to demonstrate such progress.
March 25, 2025
Goats, Trees, & Community: the Power of Family Forests
The Family Forest Carbon Program has connected Monica with a forester who helps her navigate how to use her land more sustainably. Landowners often fear that enrolling in a carbon projects limits the way they can use their land, but Monica is proof that a property enrolled in FFCP can be just as versatile as any other.
March 20, 2025
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction: What We Learned
This past week, buyers and investors participated in the first-ever American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction. To everyone who joined us during auction week and everyone who followed along, we want to thank you for being part of this pivotal event.
February 27, 2025
Statement: AFF Applauds Appointment of Tom Schultz as Chief of United States Forest Service
AFF congratulates Tom Schultz on his appointment as the 21st Chief of the United States Forest Service. Tom brings a wealth of public and private land management experience to this role. We look forward to working with Tom to unlock markets and champion economic opportunities for rural families and communities while conserving our working lands.
February 13, 2025
Statement: AFF Applauds Confirmation of Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture
Scaling market-based solutions that invest in forest health and productivity can help these rural communities thrive and tackle the growing threats these lands and communities are facing. We’re excited to work with Secretary Rollins to advance both traditional and emerging markets that improve the health and productivity of our nation’s woodlands.
January 30, 2025
The Business Case for Carbon Credits: The Hidden and Visible Costs of GHG Emissions
In the first half of 2025, AFF is going to outline the business case for companies to decarbonize and purchase and retire high-integrity carbon credits to address their unabated emissions. We will kick it off by talking about the financial benefits of decarbonization more broadly. A company that can more quickly reduce emissions throughout its value chain is a company that will be more profitable and resilient in the coming decades.
January 23, 2025
Resilience & Recovery: The Role of Family Forests When Disaster Strikes
Forests play a critical role in keeping our lands more resilient when disaster strikes, which can lessen negative impacts on local communities, infrastructure, and economies. This makes it essential to protect the health and wellbeing of this natural resource before natural disasters.
January 22, 2025
Nurturing for Scale
The American Forest Foundation is focused on a new version of buyer prepayments that more effectively ties prepayments to tangible impact: milestone prepayments. Milestone prepayments are where a buyer prepays for future carbon credits via a payment schedule tied to a series of project development milestones.
January 22, 2025
Statement: AFF Applauds Introduction of Disaster Reforestation Act
The Disaster Reforestation Act would provide family forest owners with an important financial tool they need to recover from a natural disaster: the ability to deduct their losses.
January 14, 2025
New Due Diligence Platform Aims to Drive Greater Transparency in Carbon Market
As part of its first Carbon Auction, the American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced today the launch of the auction’s Data Room, a new platform for prospective carbon credit buyers to access all due diligence materials on its Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP). The Data Room offers companies a more streamlined and transparent way to evaluate and buy carbon credits, providing a centralized resource and nine weeks for due diligence ahead of the auction on March 12-19.
January 14, 2025
A Carbon Buyers Guide to the AFF Data Room
To help buyers make a more informed decision about their long-term investment, AFF aims to be radically transparent in the data and information we provide about our program. That’s why as part of the first American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction, we are opening up all due diligence materials to buyers in a new centralized and easy-to-use Data Room.
January 7, 2025
AFF Congratulates GCSA Advisory Council Appointees
AFF’s EVP of Climate Funding Nathan Truitt to Represent NGO Sector on GCSA Advisory Council.