The Problem To encourage private landowners to forgo aggressive timber harvesting, there must be a strong incentive to participate in the Working Woodlands. The Solution Bluesource’s quantification and marketing expertise combined with TNC’s conservation easement payments allows landowners to receive full FSC certification and planning with no upfront costs, while also receiving income from FSC […]
The Problem The environmental attribute market is often difficult to navigate, and the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) marketplace is no exception. The Solution Bluesource has extensive knowledge and experience in transacting and contracting structures for RECs. Bluesource can assist with unique needs and challenges related to navigating the REC marketplace. The Story The environmental attribute […]
The Problem Preserving forests such as the Frances Beidler forest are critical but can be challenging due to the value of timber on these properties. The Solution A conservation easement was placed on the property by the Audubon Society, ensuring the land is protected from commercial harvesting into perpetuity even through management changes. The Francis […]
The Problem Energy efficiency projects often generate only a small volume of reductions, offset projects can be difficult to create. The Solution Bluesource created a multipronged quantification approach to incorporate various retrofits at all AHS facilities, aggregating energy savings from each and successfully creating offsets. Bluesource’s expertise in energy efficiency and quantification methods enables us […]
Will Offsets Sold Across Borders Have Value in A Paris-Aligned World? The Current Challenge and Ways to Mitigate Risk for Buyers + the Bluesource Blog and Bluesource News
The Problem Row crop cultivation releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere as soil that hosts grasslands contains large amounts of carbon. The Solution Preventing the conversion of grasslands to row-crop agriculture has significant climate implications. Grassland-based emission reductions hold great promise as a tool to mitigate climate change but have been underutilized thus […]
How to Keep Institutional Knowledge Created while Heeding the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Recommendations
A preference for removals could create perverse incentives that lead to immediate timber harvests and ring the death knell for avoided emission activities and their co-benefits
Our urban forestry project with Allegheny Land Trust was profiled in the Pittsburgh Gazette.
A preference for removals could create perverse incentives that lead to immediate timber harvests and ring the death knell for avoided emission activities and their co-benefits
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