For Corporations
American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction
A new way to buy carbon credits from a trusted source.
Achieve your net-zero goals by participating in the first auction for Family Forest Carbon Program credits in February 2025.
More companies than ever are pursuing net-zero goals, but there remains an urgent gap in the upfront capital needed to help keep global temperature rise within 1.5°C. Currently, only 1.2% of the annual potential of nature-based solutions has been unlocked. Under this status quo, we risk not financing enough projects to reach our collective climate goals.
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction is a new transparent and cost-efficient approach that can help scale the financing and deployment of nature-based solutions. This auction offers companies a streamlined way to buy carbon credits with a centralized virtual data room containing due diligence resources and an opportunity to make competitive and anonymous bids on credits. This approach will also provide the Family Forest Carbon Program the essential upfront funding to deliver measurable and verifiable impacts in the fight against climate change.
We invite your company to participate in this innovative way of purchasing carbon credits by registering for the first American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction.
How It Works
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction will be hosted on Prosfora — a newly developed, intuitive technology platform where potential bidders will be able to access detailed information about the Family Forest Carbon Program's four active carbon projects, review the standard terms of FFCP’s offtake contracts, and submit bids in order to secure FFCP credits issued in the future.
To participate:
- Register today to access the American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction platform.
- Stay up-to-date on how the auction works through email updates and webinars.
- Once the platform is live, qualified potential bidders will gain access to the virtual data room which offers key information about FFCP's carbon credits.
- During the auction, bidders will be able to competitively bid on volumes, issuance years, contract length, and other commercial terms.
FAQs
Globally, only 1.2% of the annual potential of nature-based solutions has been unlocked by the voluntary carbon market. Under this status quo, we risk not financing enough projects to produce a sufficient supply of high-quality credits to reach our collective climate goals. The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction is designed to create a more streamlined system for buying and selling carbon credits, by:
- Reducing transactional friction and costs for buyers and sellers.
- Providing buyers with transparent information about carbon projects to determine if those credits are suitable for their portfolio.
- Giving buyers secure access to high-quality nature-based credits to hedge against future price increases.
- Providing developers with the catalytic capital they need to get projects off the ground and accommodate the next generation of carbon accounting methodologies that apply a dynamic baseline approach. These methodologies aim to ensure projects are truly additional, financially viable, and environmentally impactful.
Corporations or investors interested in procuring high-quality, verified carbon credits as part of a comprehensive approach to implementing a net-zero strategy are welcome to participate in the auction.
If you are not interested in buying carbon credits at this time, we invite you to still follow along and join in the process by signing up for our email updates.
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction will be held in February 2025.
Removal and emission reduction credits will be available for auction, with the majority being removal credits.
Once the auction has concluded, one or more selected bidders will be identified by American Forest Foundation as the winning bidder(s). Buyers will provide a percentage of discounted upfront financing for a portion of the contracted volume of credits. Then, these buyers will make pre-payments once milestones toward annual enrollment targets are achieved. For the remaining portion of contracted credit volume, buyers will pay upon delivery on a market unit-contingent basis.
We believe this blended financing model allows buyers to secure the delivery of verified carbon credits below future forecasted market prices, while also providing catalytic funding to scale a high-quality nature-based solution within the voluntary carbon market.
The Family Forest Carbon Program takes a highly credible and transparent approach to the way we calculate our carbon benefit — resulting in meaningful and measurable impact. The key sources of FFCP’s quality are:
- The next generation of forest carbon accounting methodologies (VM 0045 and VM 0047), both of which our own science experts had a hand in creating, and which calculates the additional CO2e sequestered and/or stored by the project. Both methodologies use a dynamic baseline, in which project areas are compared to matched non-project areas, isolating the impact of the project intervention.
- An approach to long-term monitoring and stewardship that is above and beyond the current market requirements. FFCP credits represent the cutting edge when it comes to questions of permanence and durability.
- Practices carefully designed with other forest values in mind. FFCP practices aim to sustain and enhance biodiversity, improve water quality, and support economic development into the future.
Register today to request access to the American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction platform and to receive email updates.
High-Integrity Carbon Credits
The Family Forest Carbon Program was developed to help family forest owners implement sustainable forest management practices that result in healthier forests and increased carbon storage. Our program provides a transparent, high-integrity approach to forest carbon projects in the voluntary carbon market — ensuring meaningful and measurable impact.
Support for Rural Communities
It’s a win-win. Make a catalytic investment in the fight against climate change by investing in rural communities. The Family Forest Carbon Program partners with America’s family forest owners to activate the potential of our family forests to fight climate change. The program provides financial and technical resources to landowners to improve the health and value of their land for the long haul.
Want more information?
For more information about the American Forest Foundation’s carbon credit auction, please contact Memorie English, AFF’s Senior Manager of Environmental Markets, at menglish@forestfoundation.org.
The information provided on this webpage is for informational purpose only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy carbon credits. All details related to the auction, including dates, terms, and conditions, are subject to change at any time without prior notice.
This webpage may contain forward-looking statements that reflect our current expectations or forecast regarding the auction and the carbon credit market. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and changes beyond our control.