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A new program of The Nature Conservancy aims to protect forests in Pennsylvania and fight climate change by rewarding landowners who demonstrate exceptional forest management practices, among them FSC certification. "Working Woodlands is a new model of conservation that puts the growing market for carbon credits to work as a means to promote high-quality forest conservation strategies on private lands," said Dylan Jenkins, the Pennsylvania director of forest conservation for The Nature Conservancy. Developed jointly between the Conservancy and partner Blue Source, Working Woodlands uses an innovative combination of long-term working forest conservation agreements, FSC forest management certification and carbon market payments to make forest conservation more attractive to landowners. The program is designed to eliminate out-of-pocket, up-front costs for landowners. The Conservancy will provide services for FSC certification, and Blue Source will provide financing for carbon credit development. The resulting offsets will be added to Blue Source's portfolio and subsequently marketed to companies that have an interest in purchasing forest carbon credits as part of an effort to manage their net greenhouse gas emissions. Read the press release. Also in this newsletter  In Copenhagen, Forests and FSC Were Both on the Agenda
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