The purpose of this study is to gain a greater understanding of the compliance and voluntary carbon market and in particular the forestry carbon market.

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Gillian Petrokofsky, FAO/UN-REDD Programme, and external experts have produced a draft protocol for a project aimed at comparing methods for the measurement and assessment of carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools.

This UNDP reports presents the main principles, practices and challenges for carbon accounting in the forestry sector. In order to be accessible, the report is not overly technical and should not, therefore, be considered a stand-alone guide for forestry carbon accounting. It does, however, present guidance for good practice in accounting and indicates further sources of guidance.  Download as PDF.

This UNFCCC Technical Paper provides an overview of the possible steps and requirements needed to develop and implement a monitoring system for estimating emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, assessing carbon stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from changes in forest cover, and assessing the enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

The Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) is a partnership between leading companies, NGOs and research institutes seeking to promote integrated solutions to land management around the world. With this goal in mind, the CCBA has developed voluntary standards to help design and identify land management projects that simultaneously minimize climate change, support sustainable development and conserve biodiversity.

The Plan Vivo system is a set of standards, processes and tools used to develop and register payments for ecosystem services (PES) projects in developing countries. Project activities include afforestation, agroforestry, forest conservation, restoration and avoided deforestation, and are implemented by small-holders or communities on their own land, or land where they have user rights.

The Afforestation Project protocol considers reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through carbon sequestration by increasing the carbon stock (planting trees) on traditionally non forested lands such as cropped or forage land, urban land, agro-forestry operations and possibly industrial lands that have been reclaimed.

With forestry offsets likely to play a major role in the future United States cap and trade scheme, American Carbon Registry, a leading U.S. non-profit greenhouse gas registry, released its much-awaited Forest Carbon Project Standard at Point Carbon’s Carbon Markets Insights 2009, Copenhagen.

The association CarbonFix released Version 3.0 of its quality-standard for climate forest projects. New features include the certification of ex-post credits and the acceptance of criteria from other forest related quality standards.