Family Forest Blog
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.
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.
August 13, 2024
The Forest Landowner Support Program: An Opportunity to Advance Conservation for Everyone
Through FLS, states can partner with projects like the Family Forest Carbon Program to unlock landowners’ access to the voluntary carbon market, opening the door to public and private investment in their forests and local economies.
August 13, 2024
Forester Spotlight: Olivia Thomas
Olivia lives in Kentucky where she enjoys helping landowners in the Appalachian region develop and implement sustainable forest management plans and steward their forests.
July 23, 2024
Forester Spotlight: Chuck Black
Chuck Black grew up on a lake in northern New Jersey where fishing, swimming, boating and ice hockey were his passions.
July 15, 2024
Family Forest Carbon Program Expands Availability in the Southeast
The American Forest Foundation announced today the expansion of the Family Forest Carbon Program into Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
July 2, 2024
Forester Spotlight: Dan Zajac
Dan first became interested in conservation after attending a field trip to a recycling facility when he was six years old.
June 25, 2024
Updates to the Family Forest Carbon Program’s Forest Management Practices
As the Family Forest Carbon Program expands into new regions, new forest management practices are developed, tested and optimized to provide value to landowners and the environment.
May 28, 2024
The Latest News on the Family Forest Carbon Program
The Family Forest Carbon Program is continuously expanding, with landowners in more states and counties eligible every year.
May 14, 2024
Forester Spotlight: Jill Levine
“I love getting to work every day and knowing that I am participating in something that not only helps families financially, but also improves forests to combat climate change."
April 16, 2024
Get 20% More in Payment Value with the FFCP Premium Option
You can receive 20% more in payments with the premium option, and if you meet its requirements, you gain access to beneficial funding sources from the USDA.
April 12, 2024
FEATURE: Dynamic baselines are the necessary future of forest carbon accounting
As the voluntary carbon market continues to evolve, so does the critical need for clear standards to maximise the impact of natural climate solutions.