Sackville-N.B.-based Community Forests International is launching its aggregated family forest carbon offsets project to allow individual forest landowners to pool their lands and join carbon markets and is seeking investors.
The charity believes the project is the first of its kind in Canada, allowing individual citizens to pool their lands and achieve the economies of scale necessary to access carbon markets.
A carbon offset is a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions typically made in order to compensate for emissions made elsewhere. It’s hoped that carbon offsets could provide the