Carbon Calculations

Conservatism is another key Kyoto principle - you must be sure at all times that at least as much carbon is being captured by a project as was anticipated. Forest Carbon developed its own transparent and dual peer reviewed methodology to assess the likely carbon for a given species mix at a given location and altitude. This model has been assessed and accepted by the Forestry Commission's leading carbon expert, Dr Mark Broadmeadow, and by the UK government's forestry carbon inventory compiler Dr Ronnie Milne at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

The Forest Carbon model is based on  the expected yield class of the timber. This data is supplied by the Forestry Commission, and our projects plant the species recommended by the Forestry Commission's Ecological Site Classification model. All of this brings yet more independent support for and scutiny of our projects and their claims. 

As our model is so conservative all carbon credit buyers have the assurance that, in the unlikely event that there were problems at a woodland (such as slower than expected growth), there is a significant unsold buffer to ensure that they are still in 'credit' in the carbon bank.