Today, there are three forestry options available for verified carbon credits: afforestation/reforestation, improved forest management, and avoided conversion. Below are more specific opportunities for you to weave tree-based carbon reduction into your sustainability plan.
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Afforestation
Creating forests on land that was previously un-forested.
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Reforestation
Restoring forests on land that was once forested.
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Avoided Conversion
Preventing the loss of existing forests to nonforest use by protecting or enhancing the forest cover.
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Improved Forest Management
Quantifying the greenhouse gas removals generated from preventing logging of forests that would have been logged in the absence of purchasing the forestry carbon credit.
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Carbon Microtransactions
Using blockchain technology to give consumers the option to offset the carbon lifecycle for a product and/or the shipping footprint when using e-commerce.
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Insetting
Making direct investments in an organization’s supply chain to boost resiliency and minimize disruption with verified emissions reductions and other Shared Benefits.
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Urban Forestry Carbon Credits
Receiving carbon credits and other quantified benefits (stormwater runoff, energy savings, etc.) for urban tree planting while helping cities fund investments in healthy urban tree canopies.
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Carbon + Trees
With our partners, we are looking at new project models to scale up the size of forestry projects by combining verified carbon credits and additional tree planting.
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Blue Carbon
Carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems like mangroves and seaside wetlands.