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Selling early maturing Woodland Carbon Units (WCUs)

The Woodland Carbon Code has inbuilt conservatism in its carbon calculations, which can lead to projects achieving more WCUs at verification than was predicted. 

At Forest Carbon, when we commit to purchasing a project’s carbon, our contract stipulates that we are also buying any extra WCUs that arise during future verifications. This is in contrast to some Project Developers, who offer the extra WCUs to the Project Host (landowner).

While we understand that the prospect of extra carbon credits is appealing, we believe it is misguided to treat any WCUs as surplus until the project completion date. 

Our rationale is as follows:

For all of these reasons Forest Carbon store any surplus WCUs in our own internal buffer. We do not sell any of these WCUs, but instead retain them as a safeguard to reduce the likelihood of a carbon shortfall at any stage in a project’s lifetime. We believe that this approach is the most responsible, risk-averse strategy available to Project Developers operating within the voluntary carbon market.


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