Family Forest Blog
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.
January 3, 2025
A Forest Full of Surprises
A hidden wildflower field, butterflies dancing among the ironweed, and beavers hard at work building their new home. Pennsylvania landowner Kathy McClure’s property is full of small surprises that come together to create a magical place for her family.
December 23, 2024
Statement: AFF Applauds Passage of Comprehensive Disaster Relief Package
The American Forest Foundation applauds the Congress for passing and the Biden administration for signing a comprehensive disaster relief package that will keep the government open until March, extend the Farm Bill for a year, and provide monumental funding that supports family forest owners. These funds will play a critical role in restoring landscapes, rebuilding livelihoods, and strengthening rural communities devastated by natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
December 20, 2024
Townsend Family Wins 2024 National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year Award
After securing the West Region Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year Award, Townsend Family Wins National title for their work at Coburg Tree Farm in Washington.
December 18, 2024
What This Year's Election Means for Landowners in FFCP
We have found that even in a political environment where people are extremely divided, an overwhelming majority of American voters from both parties support taking care of our country's forests.
December 18, 2024
The Business Case for Carbon Credits
Today, the American Forest Foundation is launching a series designed to provide companies a comprehensive and easily understandable answer to the question, “What is the business case for purchasing and retiring carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market?”
December 17, 2024
The AFF Auction: A Simplified Buying Timeline
We created a simplified buying timeline to guide participants through the next steps in the American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction process. Here is what you can expect from now until contracts are signed.
December 13, 2024
Reaching the Next 100,000 Acres!
The Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) recently achieved the incredible milestone of 100,000 acres enrolled in our program and we are already looking forward to the next 100k, and what it will take to get there.
December 11, 2024
AFF Awarded $5 Million to Support Family Forest Owners
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has awarded the organization $5 million of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds through its Forest Landowner Support (FLS) program.