Introduction

Forest Carbon was formed in early 2007 to address the need for a locally-based, highly technical and regionally focused organization in Indonesia, capable of providing services for carbon baseline measurement, REDD project design, project implementation, and forest monitoring for the voluntary and compliance markets in REDD and improved forest management.

Forest Carbon is comprised of a core team of experts with extensive tropical forestry experience in Southeast Asia and Africa in the fields of silviculture, tropical ecology, GIS/remote sensing, social forestry and environmental policy. Key staff members in Forest Carbon have been actively working in the carbon forestry space in Indonesia since 2006. They have worked extensively on early projects for the voluntary (VCS and CCBA) and pre-compliance markets (REDD) for both non-profit organizations and private sector project developers.

Mission and Goals

Forest Carbon believes that the conservation of threatened natural forests, the reforestation of degraded forests and restoration of tropical peat lands can play a significant role in mitigating climate change. The development of transparent, additional, and scientifically rigorous methodologies are critical to the creation of a market for international forestry carbon credits.

To that extent, we firmly stand behind the development of such projects internationally and provide our expertise to help project proponents, developers and governments with the technical aspects of their projects.

Our mission is to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing scientifically rigorous technical services to project developers and stakeholders in their efforts to conserve threatened natural forests and reforest degraded areas. It is our goal to see high quality carbon forestry projects develop in Indonesia and provide a viable alternative forest use for all stakeholders.

Scott Stanley, MSc.

Managing Director

About Forest Carbon

Forest Carbon is led by Scott Stanley, who has worked in the tropics of Latin America and Southeast Asia for more than 20 years conducting forestry research and managing large forestry and conservation projects funded by the World Bank and USAID.

Scott has been in Indonesia for more than 12 years; initially working two years with Harvard University leading a community-based forest management project. Afterwards, Scott went on to develop a large-scale conservation program for The Nature Conservancy in East Kalimantan Province, where he managed that program for five years. The TNC East Kalimantan Program focused on conserving two large upper watersheds covering more than 1 million hectares of tropical forest. From 2000 through 2005 these TNC sites demonstrated almost no deforestation, while the rest of the province lost 26% of its lowland forest.