The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) has provided a grant to Dovetail Partners to conduct a project in collaboration with Cambium Consulting over the next year with the goal of creating shared understanding around the potential effects of an expanding forest carbon market in the United States.
This project aims to provide elevated awareness, shared knowledge, strengthened connections, and support for critical thinking among key stakeholders regarding the potential for expanding markets for forest carbon offsets that may materially disrupt raw material availability and supply to domestic forest products manufacturing sectors.
The desired outcome is to provide space and momentum to spur research, increase understanding of potential downstream impacts, and initiate development of integrated, multi-dimensional strategies for optimizing benefits from natural climate solutions, and buffering or otherwise mitigating potential negative outcomes to communities. You can read more about the project here.
The concept paper describing the project, entitled “Exploring the Potential Effects of an Expanding Forest Carbon Market in the United States.” The paper explores the potential effects of an expanding forest carbon market on working forests and the communities that rely on them in the United States. Dovetail Partners, in collaboration with Cambium Consulting, will work to create a shared understanding around the potential effects of an expanding forest carbon market in the United States.
The project has four distinct phases designed to raise awareness and encourage consideration and integration of approaches to maximize positive outcomes and minimize negative impacts: development of a concept paper, a survey of stakeholders and interested parties, development of mapping strategies, and a convening workshop to be held in mid-2024. A link to the Dovetail Study website follows:
https://www.dovetailinc.org/portfoliodetail.php?id=6584b3231a4f6
