Chandler Van Voorhis, GreenTrees co-founder and managing partner, will share expert insight on GreenTrees' reforestation projects, nature-based carbon removal credits, the American Carbon Registry (ACR) verification process and the benefits to carbon credit auctions
THE PLAINS, Va., Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --
WHAT
Chandler Van Voorhis, co-founder and managing partner at GreenTrees, will speak alongside Lauren Nichols, vice president of the Environmental Resources Trust (ERT) and managing director of ACR as well as Gordon Bennett, managing director, utility markets of ICE at an upcoming webinar titled, "Understanding Nature-Based Carbon Removal Projects with ACR."
ICE operates the world's most liquid environmental futures markets and is working to launch carbon credit auctions with GreenTrees. Ahead of this, ICE is bringing together a panel of industry experts to examine ACR's approach to issuing and verifying nature-based carbon credits and the value carbon credit auctions deliver.
ICE plans to host two auctions of GreenTrees' nature-based carbon removal credits. Each auction will offer 250,000 Emission Reduction Tons (ERTs) from GreenTrees' reforestation projects, with each ERT representing the removal from the atmosphere of the equivalent of one metric ton of carbon dioxide. The ERTs offered for sale by GreenTrees are issued by ACR, the world's first private voluntary greenhouse gas registry. Founded in 1996 by the Environmental Resources Trust (ERT), ACR is a leading authenticator in the international carbon market with more than 25 years of experience with carbon offset registration, standards and verification.
WHO
Chandler Van Voorhis, co-founder and managing partner, GreenTrees
Chandler Van Voorhis is the co-founder and managing partner at GreenTrees, a global leader in reforestation to answer climate change and the largest reforestation program operator in the U.S. At GreenTrees, he drives the organization's efforts to address climate change through reforestation. Under Chandler's leadership, GreenTrees has engaged more than 600 landowners ranging from 10 to 3,500+ acres, planting 130,000+ acres of trees that have generated carbon offset credits equivalent to removing more than six million metric tons of carbon from the Earth's atmosphere.
With over 20 years of industry experience, Chandler is a leading expert in conservation and ecological markets. In 2002, he was awarded the ChevronTexaco Conservation Award, the nation's most distinguished private conservation award. He has made appearances as a guest lecturer at Princeton and Yale, hosted a TEDx Talk and has authored several publications on the emergence of natural capital. Prior to GreenTrees, Chandler was the co-host of GreenWave Radio, a nationally ranked syndicated radio talk show on business and the environment.
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Time: 10 to 11 a.m. ET
Location: Online
To learn more or to RSVP to the virtual event, please visit:
https://www.ice.com/webinar/understanding-nature-based-carbon-removal-projects-with-acr?utm_source=greentrees
About GreenTrees
GreenTrees is the market leader in reforestation and carbon removal in the U.S. A model land equity program for landowners, GreenTrees generates the largest number of forestry carbon removal credits in the U.S. The only carbon removal program open to both small and large landowners, GreenTrees engages individual landowners to plant forests, measure the growth annually and convert the annual growth into carbon credits. All carbon credits in GreenTrees' projects undergo a rigorous verification process by the American Carbon Registry and are accepted by global environmental markets as the highest standard for quality in nature-based carbon removals. Wholly owned by ACRE Investment Management, LLC, GreenTrees has engaged 600+ landowners ranging from 10 to 3,500+ acres and planted 130,000+ acres of forests that have removed more than six million metric tons of carbon from the Earth's atmosphere; these existing planted acres will remove a projected 30 million metric tons over the next 40 years; additional plantings will grow carbon removal capacity significantly as GreenTrees' parent company's affiliate platform company, ACRE IO, will accelerate planting velocity for GreenTrees and other independent projects. Fortune 500 companies trust GreenTrees' carbon credits to meet sustainability goals and combat climate change. For more information about GreenTrees, visit https://www.green-trees.com/.
Media Contact
Elizabeth Buccianti, Gabriel Marketing Group (for GreenTrees), 407-463-8865, [email protected]
SOURCE GreenTrees
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