Northern Forest Center Releases Payments for Forest Carbon 2009 Report

The Northern Forest Center, intermediary organization in the Northern Forest Investment Zone partnership, recently released a Payments for Forest Carbon 2009 report. The report examines opportunities and challenges small forest owners face in engaging in carbon sequestration projects. It covers the current state of market-based approaches for payments for forest carbon and profiles the most prominent aggregators and sub-aggregators currently working with forest landowners to develop and sell forest carbon credits. According to Northern Forest Center Program Director Joe Short, “We hope this information will be a valuable resource to small forest owners in our region and nationally.”

Click here to view the full report.  Other primary partners include Coastal Enterprises Inc. and the Manomet Center for Conservation Science. This report is a direct result of work performed under the Ecosystem Services Program of the Northern Forest Investment Zone.

The Northern Forest Investment Zone is one of three zones identified nationally by the Endowment’s Forest Investment Zone Initiative as learning laboratories in the promotion of sustainable forestry at a regional scale.