Carbon Markets: Are They Right for Your Land Trust?

This publication lays out the basics of carbon markets and highlights how land trusts can use them to achieve their conservation and stewardship goals. It provides background on different types of projects and how they are developed and presents case studies of land trust carbon projects.

For more in-depth guidance for land trusts interested in siting carbon projects on easement lands, see the Land Trust Alliance’s Carbon Offsets in Conservation Easements: The Essentials for Land Trusts.