Carbon with Clear Additionality

Accelerating the speed of trust in nature-based solutions

Offset your footprint, verify additionality, reduce risk, and leave a lasting impact. Upstream Carbon's transparent, certification-pending forest carbon credits offer a scalable solution for corporations and individuals to support resilient forest communities along the suburban frontier.

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A map depicting the opportunity cost of deforestation in the northeast US in terms of CO2 equivalent by 2050.
A map depicting the opportunity cost of deforestation in the northeast US in terms of CO2 equivalent by 2050.

Volume, Scale, AND Impact

20,000+
Risk-adjusted tons per project
>60%
of funding goes to Landowners
Customized
packages for cobenefits and budget

Intelligent Conservation

Carbon projects that redirect development from important ecosystems
to sites best suited for housing, solar, data centers, and other land use.

Illustrative design of a map of suburban and urban forests, with images of trees representing carbon pools and colors representing threats of deforestation facing each property. Properties protected by conservation easements are colored dark green.Illustrative design of a map of suburban and urban forests, with images of trees representing carbon pools and colors representing threats of deforestation facing each property. Properties protected by conservation easements are colored dark green.Illustrative design of a map of suburban and urban forests, with images of trees representing carbon pools and colors representing threats of deforestation facing each property. Properties selected for protection have dark green borders.Illustrative design of a map of suburban and urban forests, with images of trees representing carbon pools and colors representing threats of deforestation facing each property. Properties selected for protection have dark green borders.Mock-up design of a map of suburban and urban forests, with images of trees representing carbon pools and colors representing threats of deforestation facing each property.

Projects that measure real impact

Areas with potential forest protection sites are assessed by impact per dollar

Additionality » Deforestation Threat

Property values are correlated with real estate development. Forests with high emissions risk are often, but not always, more expensive. With transparency into conservation costs, tailor your offset strategy to balance tons, cost, impact, and location.

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Leakage » Location

The current scope of ACREs campaigns is in the US. Why? Recent research by Harvard Forest found US-based conservation easement programs, our preferred protection method, are less likely to produce measurable spillover effects (and may even spur additional conservation), The future of our landscape is a race. Action is contagious.

Map of carbon and land value estimator assessing the deforestation risk at the property level in New England.

Permanence » Conservation Length

Landowners must be receive fair pay to give up development rights. You get price transparency about what landowners will accept to forego development rights for 20 years, 40 years, or 100 years, or forever.

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The Risk-Adjusted Approach

Measure deforestation risk, and support a risk-adjusted carbon project.

Forest Inventory Data

30-meter aboveground biomass and carbon flux estimates derived from the National Forest Carbon Monitoring System. The most recent measurements from National Land Cover Database and LANDFIRE. Processed Digital Elevation Map data. What makes a site ideal for forest protection credits? Contact us to learn more.

Parcel Data

We process tax assessor parcels and property ownership data from government and third party sources to create standardized land use classifications and human-readable parcel attributes. This helps our users easily understand the specific factors driving risk of deforestation in any given parcel on the map.

Geospatial Innovation and Machine Learning

You didn't think we'd post exactly how we made our ensemble models on our website, did you? Contact us to learn more. We're happy to share and hear suggestions to improve!

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In the time you took to read though the text above, 146 Metric Tons of CO2 (30 cars on the road for a year)
were emitted from Land Converted to Settlements in the US, based on historical EPA estimates.

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