American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction

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.