The objective of this effort is to develop a bi-national standard to measure carbon from forestry activities that is environmentally sound, scientifically based, and economically feasible. A technical committee has been formed, made up of forest carbon experts and stakeholders, to develop forest carbon accounting rules under consensus standards development procedures accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). The new consensus standards will bring together existing and emerging protocols from state, provincial, regional, and national climate policies and programs to create a single set of forest carbon accounting rules that can be broadly applied in sustainably managed forests and long-term forest products in the U.S. and Canada.

Organizers:
• American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA)
• Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC)
• Society of American Foresters (SAF)
• Canadian Institute of Forestry – Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC)

AF&PA, an ANSI-accredited standards development organization, is the secretariat for this effort.

Forest Carbon Standard Committee Information Sheet