Family Forest Blog
November 19, 2024
Family Forest Carbon Program Receives BBBe Rating from Carbon Ratings Agency
This week, the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a nonprofit organization that empowers family forest owners to create meaningful conservation impact, announced its receival of a ‘BBBe’ rating of its improved forest management (IFM) practices by carbon ratings agency BeZero – the highest of the agency’s public ratings of this project type in the United States.
November 12, 2024
New White Paper Sets Bar for Quality in Forest Carbon Projects
This week, the American Forest Foundation, a nonprofit organization that empowers family forest owners to create meaningful conservation impact, released its latest white paper, “Catalyzing Forest Carbon Project Quality: Addressing Issues of Integrity in Improved Forest Management Carbon Projects." The paper discusses the common challenges that IFM projects face in the voluntary carbon market and details four key elements the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) focuses on to ensure high quality: additionality, permanence, leakage, and social integrity.
November 4, 2024
Private Philanthropy: Be the Game Changer for Family Forests and the Planet
One of the most critical issues preventing family forest owners from doing more to both improve the health of their forests and benefit the climate is money. If we are going make a sustained impact that helps reach the planet’s climate goals, we need philanthropic support of the VCM to act as a springboard for maximizing investment in nature.
November 1, 2024
The A.J. and Nona Trigg Hodges Foundation Wins 2024 Southern Region Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year Award
The A.J. and Nona Trigg Hodges Foundation, recognized as the 2024 Southern Region Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year for their work on their Louisiana Tree Farm.
November 1, 2024
Mike and Patsy Schmuki Win North Central Region Tree Farmers of the Year Award
Mike and Patsi Schmuki win the North Central Region Tree Farmers of the Year Award for their work on Post Boy Tree Farm in southern Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
November 1, 2024
Ann and Marc Davis Win 2024 Northeast Regional Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year Award
Ann and Marc Davis Win 2024 Northeast Regional Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year Award for their work on Woods Without Gile (WWG) Tree Farm in Springfield and Wilmot, New Hampshire.
October 29, 2024
Branching Across the Aisle: How Building a Voluntary Carbon Market Benefits Rural Communities & The Planet
With the presidential election right around the corner, our television screens and social media feeds are filled with divisive messages and rhetoric. However, in a time where finding common ground seems nearly impossible, there is at least one thing that Americans on both sides of the aisle support: our forests.
October 22, 2024
In Historic First, Forest Carbon Project Enrolls 100,000 Acres
This week, the American Forest Foundation, a nonprofit organization that empowers family forest owners to create meaningful conservation impact, announced its enrollment of 100,000 acres in the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP), the first of its kind to achieve this milestone.
October 15, 2024
American Forest Foundation to Launch First U.S. Nature-Based Carbon Credit Auction in Early 2025
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction — the first of its kind for a U.S. nature-based carbon project — will offer buyers a transparent and streamlined way to secure high-quality carbon credits while supporting rural communities and family forest owners.
October 15, 2024
A New Way to Buy Carbon Credits: The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction
We believe there is a better way to buy carbon credits – a way to create contracts which more directly tie buyers and landowners to one another as true partners in a great enterprise. A way which reduces the friction, opacity and transaction costs of the current market.
September 19, 2024
Family Forest Owners Are in the Climate Fight. Now We Need You to Join Us.
Together, all of us FFCP landowners from the woodlands of the Northeast to the pasturelands of Georgia are making an impact. Together, every tree we nurture is making a difference for climate change.
September 16, 2024
Early Investment is the Key to Carbon Market Success
AFF is exploring a new method of upfront investment that will offer corporations lower prices, more insight into their purchase, and a pathway to make a truly transformative investment.
September 5, 2024
Greenfreezing and How We Begin to Thaw
Far more harmful than greenhushing, greenfreezing is when a company significantly slows or halts their climate action efforts or net zero strategies.
August 14, 2024
Statement: USDA’s Advisory Council to Support Market Transparency and Credibility
"USDA’s creation of this council is a major step in creating the enabling conditions needed to build and scale a market that works for people and the planet."