Forest carbon markets: How demand for forest carbon credits is shaping wood markets

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Forest carbon markets are quickly evolving as the importance of forests in tackling climate change is increasingly recognized and rewarded. Forestry is one of the most popular and fastest-growing sources of carbon credits and this can have profound impacts on timber supply, forestry investments, and raw material sourcing to forest industries.

In this on-demand Fastmarkets webinar, Glen O’Kelly, CEO of O’Kelly Acumen, discusses some of the key findings from a recent study on the state of forest carbon markets, and implications for forest industries in three case-study regions; US, Europe and New Zealand. Submit the form to access the recording.
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The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has proposed a significant expansion of carbon removals in corporate net-zero strategies, marking a potential shift in how companies use voluntary carbon markets.

The US forestry sector is undergoing a transformation as timberland managers increasingly diversify beyond traditional operations to embrace forest carbon projects, conservation, renewable energy, and carbon capture initiatives.

Small volumes of around 3,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) of Panama ARR (VCS 2481) vintage 2017 were reported on offer at $32 per tCO2e. The volumes on offer represented more than half the circulating credits from that project-vintage pair. The supply of credits from the project is constrained. It has issued up to vintage […]