News and events

Andrew Baker, our Woodland Carbon Markets Advisor, gave a presentation on the Woodland Carbon Code to over 100 delegates in France in April 2024. 

Andy travelled to Bourdeaux to attend a conference on carbon sequestration organised by the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe. He was joined by experts from a range of organisations including the European Commission, Coopérative Carbone and the Institute for Climate Economics. 

The conference highlighted the need for carbon sequestration programmes to have robust additionality rules, credibility and consistency to provide confidence in the private carbon market.

HM Revenue and Customs has published updated guidance about the VAT treatment of voluntary carbon credits.  

From 1 September 2024, VAT needs to be accounted for on certain trades of voluntary carbon credits at the standard rate. 

We have made some clarifications to the current version of the standard. Clarifications offer project developers and validation and verification bodies clear direction on interpretation of the standard. 

Date: Thursday 23 May

Time: 3pm to 3.30pm

Join our Monitoring Advisor, Leon DeBell, for an insight into how remote sensing technologies could be used to help monitor Woodland Carbon Code projects. Leon is exploring how technologies such as instruments on drones, planes and satellites could help to measure the carbon trees have stored. 

We’ve recently published our end of year interim statistics for 2023 to 2024.   

The data shows that we’ve doubled the number of validations completed in a year (completing 170), bringing the total number of projects validated to 621.  

Projects validated to the woodland carbon code have created a total of 34,000 hectares of woodland and are predicted to sequester over 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent over their lifetime.  

Well done to landowners, project developers, validators and the Woodland Carbon Code team for all their hard work.

Farmers, foresters and other land managers in England are being encouraged to apply for the Woodland Carbon Guarantee scheme ahead of the eighth auction, which will take place online from 23-29 September. The deadline to apply is Friday 6 September 2024.

Thank you to everyone who completed our recent communications survey. We received 95 responses. Your feedback highlighted several areas where we can enhance our communications, including: 

• Reviewing the content on our website
• Running online information sessions
• Sharing more updates on changes and developments 

We’re now working to implement these changes. Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any further suggestions on how we can improve our communications. 

Congratulations to the winner of our prize draw. Enjoy spending your voucher, Phil!

International Day of Forests is held on 21 March each year to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees.

With this year’s theme focusing on innovation, we caught up with the Woodland Carbon Code’s new monitoring advisor, Leon DeBell, to find out about his work.

The Woodland Carbon Code team is keen to ensure our communications meet your needs. 

We’ve devised a short survey to capture your views and inform our communications strategy. Quick and easy to complete, it should take no more than six minutes of your time.  

The survey is open until Sunday 3 March and respondents will have the opportunity to enter a prize draw to WIN a £20 Not on the High Street voucher.

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