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Forest Carbon for the Private Landowner (Part 2): Protocols, Projects and Opportunities

Andrea Tuttle takes a look at forest carbon markets and how these can be used to capture and hold carbon on the landscape.

Presenter

Andrea Tuttle
Consultant and Former State Forester, California

Contributors

Multiple contributors

Description

A review of forest carbon credits, markets, protocols, projects and opportunities for private landowners. This presentation looks at how carbon gains and losses are accounted for, and provides several examples of forest carbon projects. A look at the carbon registries gives some idea of how projects are monitored.

Video Length

19:47

Publication Date

You should gain an understanding of:

Forest carbon credit protocols and methodologies.

Options for private forest landowners to generate marketable forest offsets.

Carbon accounting (sector vs. project), project examples, protocols for forest carbon projects, registries and credit trading, and market projections.