Project History
Defining the Carbon Market Since 1996
Project Information
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Registry: ACR
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Project Name: GreenTrees ACRE (Advanced Carbon Restored Ecosystem)
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Project ID: ACR114
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Project Type: Afforestation/Reforestation
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Removal/Reduction: Removal
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Structure: Programmatic Aggregation with Multiple Start Dates
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Location: Project is for the US Forest Service Southern Region. Most acres are concentrated in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. However, the project is expanding into other states with the Southern Region.
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Start of First Verification: January 1, 2008
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Number of Parcels: 600+
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Validation Until: 2047
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Standard: ACR Standard Version 2.1, November 2010 and ACR Forest Carbon Project Standard 2.1
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Methodologies: Methodology for Afforestation and Reforestation of Degraded Land v 1.0
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Ex Post Facto or Ex Ante: Ex Post Facto
Distribution to Our Landowner Partners
GreenTrees 20+ Year History
Environmental Resource Trust (ERT), a spin off of Environmental Defense Fund, is founded as first private carbon registry (eventually Winrock International acquires ERT and rebrands it as American Carbon Registry – ACR)
Kellogg Graduate School of Management sponsors Senior-Level Book on Global Climate Change. Chandler co-authored a chapter with Maggie Bryant, Chairperson of National Fish and Wildlife Foundation as well as Environmental Resource Trust. Other authors include Dirk Forrister (Chairman of White House Task Force on Climate Change), Undersecretary Sec. Tim Wirth, BP Chairman John Brown.
DOE forms Utilitree Carbon Company with 40 utilities doing carbon reforestation pilots in MS Delta. Subsequently, PowerTree Carbon Company follows.
USDA makes carbon sequestration a purpose to which landowners own the right to the carbon.
We convened a Carbon Reforestation Summit in Mississippi with Utilities, Traders, Landowners, and NGOs.
On St. Patrick’s Day, we formed our company to create a public private partnership between landowners, government, and companies for carbon reforestation.
On Earth Day, Agriculture Secretary Visits MS Delta to talk Hardwood Reforestation and Carbon.
The Growth of GreenTrees
As a programmatic aggregator, GreenTrees is structured as a pool of landowners that grow in two ways — 1) as the trees grow year over year and 2) as new lands enter the pool. Because of our structure, GreenTrees has never had a reversal in its 20-year history, ensuring the highest level of permanence, atmospheric impact, and integrity.
For a reversal to happen in the GreenTrees Project, the pool of assets would have to go negative year over year. Unlike most projects where various risks could occur, creating a single point of failure, our programmatic aggregator approach creates an insurance mechanism through the structure. While there could be various impacts on individual GreenTrees lands over time, the impacts of such would mean the pool only grew by so much.
