In version 2.1 of its Improved Forest Management (IFM) on Non-Federal U.S. Forestlands methodology, ACR included an updated approach for developing and evaluating conservative baseline scenarios, including an innovative, project-specific dynamic baselining framework.
To support stakeholders – especially project developers and carbon credit buyers – in understanding and communicating the approach, ACR has created a new infographic and explainer video featuring Andrew Taylor, Senior Technical Manager, Forestry.
The infographic and video walk through the four-step process:
- Identify all relevant constraints to forest management, which ensures a legally, physically and economically possible baseline scenario for the given project area.
- Substantiate forest management practices, including the appropriate silvicultural prescriptions and the intensity with which they are applied.
- Develop the baseline harvest schedule, ensuring that harvests only target merchantable and financially profitable timber.
- Dynamically evaluate the baseline over time, reviewing key assumptions ex post and revising as necessary, prior to any credits being generated, on a continuous basis throughout the life of the project.
We encourage stakeholders to use the infographic and video in their communications.