Forest Carbon

An important feature of the NCAPX carbon market is that it is accessible to landowners of all sizes--whether you own 20 acres or 2 million acres, you can participate. In the future, any forest landowner will be eligible to sell NCAPX carbon credits. In the 2020 market, eligible sellers will be owners of pine dominated forests in the US South (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas).

The first stage will be determining how much of your planned harvest volume you’d be willing to defer, and at what price(s). These volumes and prices will comprise your bids into the NCAPX auction. For volume that “clears” the market (i.e. volume where the bid price was lower than the market clearing price), you will then enter into a 1-year contract committing to defer that much harvest. At the end of the contract, the harvest activity on your land will be verified, and payments will be delivered to you.

SilviaTerra’s predictive algorithms determine the “business as usual”, amount of harvesting on any tract of land, considering several variables like standing inventory, proximity to markets and transportation networks, prevailing market prices, and harvesting history on the tract. This business-as-usual harvesting estimate is shared with the landowner before they participate in the auction.

Participating in the NCAPX auction and generating the ton-year carbon credits is completely free for landowners. Once the auction is complete and landowners enter into contracts, they are legally obligated to “deliver” the carbon credits (i.e. adjust their harvesting activity). Like any legal contract, there will be penalties for non-compliance.

Register your interest at the bottom of this page. This is a free, no-commitment step that will ensure you receive all up-to-date communication from SilviaTerra about participating in the market.