Natural Climate Solutions

Managing and restoring ecosystems to benefit our climate

North America's leading nature-based project developer and carbon credit portfolio

 

In partnership with landowners, our forest carbon and nature-based projects are positively changing landscapes and generating trusted, third-party verified conservation and registry-tagged removal credits. Our experience, cutting-edge technology, and unwavering commitment to ground truth has ranked Anew as Environmental Finance’s Best Project Developer (North American Markets) for eight consecutive years.

Maximizing impact & carbon revenue

We specialize in helping you generate a new source of revenue from sustainable land management practices. Our efficient and proprietary process enables us to generate the greatest value and climate benefit from your land. With over 100 projects underway, you're in experienced hands.

Land management for the climate

110+

Forestry projects

6M+

Acres

1M+

Acres of indigenous-owned projects

Measurable climate benefit

To participate in a forest carbon project, there must be an opportunity to reduce emissions through climate conscious forest management. We'll help you understand your options and what program engagement entails.

Three steps to realizing carbon revenue

feasibility study
feasibility study

Our team of professional foresters offer no-cost, efficient evaluations of project performance and economics. 

credit development
credit development

Anew executes and finances all activities required to register and sell carbon credits.

marketing and sales
marketing and sales

The size and diversity of our carbon credit portfolio is unmatched, as is our team’s expertise in ensuring your project's profitability.

Project examples on private, public, and indigenous lands

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Rusk County Forestry Project

The Anew – Rusk County Forestry Project is located on 79,307 acres of northern hardwood, aspen, and oak forest in Rusk County, Wisconsin. The County has practiced intensive commercial harvesting across its ownership since first enrolling its land under Wisconsin’s Forest Crop Law in 1931. Revenues from timbering represent the largest source of annual income for the County, outside of tax collection, and are essential for funding public services and County administration. In addition to serving as a timber resource, the County forest provides the public with recreational access.

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Doyon Forestry Project

The Doyon Native Community Forest Project is located on 172,737 acres of boreal forest across Alaska’s Yukon-Koyukuk and Southeast Fairbanks boroughs, and is the property of Doyon, Limited, a for-profit corporation owned and managed by Alaska Native shareholders. Historically, forests in the project region have been subject to mining and timbering, which still occur on Doyon lands today. The project supports Doyon, Limited’s mission to be a leading innovator amongst Alaska’s Native Corporations and to promote the economic and social well-being of Alaska Natives. More specifically, carbon funding will contribute to job opportunities and regional economic growth within the community, investment in sustainability infrastructure (e.g. clean water distribution stations, LEED building construction, restoration of riparian zones), and targeted forest management for cultural use and recreation. In addition, the financial success of the forest carbon project will reduce economic pressures for expansion of mining across Doyon, Limited’s broader land base.

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Allagash Headwaters Forestry Project

Allagash Headwaters is located on approximately 14,800 acres in the industrial forests of northern Maine and owned by Hull Forestlands Maine. The Hull family of companies, which includes timberland scattered across New England and a sawmill in Pomfret Center Connecticut, focuses on the production of traditional forest products. Throughout the project area’s geographic region, industrial forestland like the Allagash property is often heavily harvested through clear-cutting and high-grading, in the service of maximizing the NPV of the forest asset. The previous landowner cut more than 70% of the 20-year sustainable harvest levels in the 5 years prior to the property changing hands. Carbon revenues are not only allowing Hull to harvest less, but to harvest in a more sustainable manner (non-traditional methods) that lead to less impact on the ground, more diverse and healthy trees, more carbon storage through larger and older trees, and habitat generation for species of concern such as the Canada lynx (threatened) and the Rusty Blackbird.

Common questions about land enrollment

4,000 contiguous or non-contiguous acres is the approximate bare minimum footprint for a viable project.
The implications on land management are directly related to the project type chosen. Generally speaking, improved forest management projects do not allow harvesting to exceed forest growth, but harvesting is still permitted. If commercial harvesting is undertaken on the project area, either certification under FSC, SFI, ATFS, or a state approved forest management plan must be maintained. Additionally, compliance projects face restrictions on the size of even-aged harvests and are not permitted to utilize broadcast fertilization.
Length of commitment is dependent on project type and can range from 40 years for voluntary projects to over 100 years for compliance projects.
Voluntary projects are subject to the rulesets/protocols designated by the various voluntary offset registries (e.g. ACR, CAR, Verra, etc.). Compliance projects are subject to the California Air Resource Board’s Cap-And-Trade Regulation and the associated Forest Offset Protocol. Voluntary and compliance credits have different communities of buyers and trade at different pricing levels.
Anew leverages decades of experience along with proprietary software to determine your carbon yield. We evaluate forest stocking, age, species and other data to perform complex calculations in accordance with both voluntary and compliance carbon offset standards. Please contact us to begin the evaluation process and get your free estimate.
Credits can take anywhere from 18 to 24 months to generate, depending on many factors including: project type, location, forest heterogeneity, verifiers’ schedules, and regulatory body backlogs. Anew manages your project from start to finish, using our reputation and experience with regulators and verifiers to advocate for your project and ensure credits are generated as efficiently as possible.

Anew is active in Blue Carbon

Coastal and marine ecosystems are vital to the health of our planet, serving as nursery grounds for marine life, filtration systems for onshore runoff, and natural storm surge buffers. Marine plants also naturally capture and store substantial amounts of carbon. Development, deforestration, and damaging upstream activities can release carbon into the atmosphere. Carbon projects incentivize carbon to be stored in this way and offer legally enforceable protection. We can determine if you have a viable blue carbon project and help you make the most of the opportunity by bringing it to market.

Did you know

5% of U.S. timberlands change hands each year for investment, development, and wood product purposes. Landowner intent by itself does not guarantee long-term forest protection, but carbon projects do.

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Our work in action

Complimentary   
feasibility assessment

Our team provides an initial feasibility assessment of any property larger than 4,000 forested acres—free of charge within the United States and Canada. Fill out this form to get started and our forestry team will be in touch.

American Carbon Registry
Climate Action Reserve
Oak Hill Advisors