TotalEnergies Invests in Sustainable Forestry Operations
Conserving forests through carbon credits
A new class of climate assets
Aurora buys forests where trees hold more value as carbon than as timber, allowing us to conserve them through our carbon projects. We calculate carbon removed by monitoring real-time growth and ecological recovery as our forests heal from industrial harvesting.
Uncompromising transparency and strict carbon offset standards
Aurora measures carbon removed and stored through science-based, peer-reviewed methods. Our high-integrity carbon credits are calculated by Aurora foresters using the latest in spatial and tracking technology and confirmed with on-the-ground measurement. Independent auditors then verify these measurements to ensure Aurora credits have real, measurable impact.
Project insights
Our carbon projects are listed on public carbon registry databases where our calculations and methodologies are available for review. Credits resulting from our projects are exclusively marketed and sold by Anew Climate. Site tour opportunities are available for serious clients.
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Aurora is one of the largest private forestland owners in the United States
Climate-smart forestry
We use climate-smart forestry and adaptive management to keep our forests productive and resilient against climate change. A healthy forest is a resilient forest, offering long-term climate and ecosystem benefits.
Eligible Aurora forestlands are Forest Stewardship Council certified.
Our process
Continual monitoring
For each of our carbon projects, we extensively model, document, and analyze forest makeup and carbon value, and track changes over time.
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Local expertise
We partner with local foresters and incorporate their knowledge to create carbon-first management plans that are tailored to each forest ecosystem we manage.
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Purpose-built tools
Our tree data is among the deepest in the industry. Leveraging our data, we have developed and continue to invest in our own software to analyze and project carbon values for individual forests that meet the highest measurement standards.
Our process
Third-party verification
All measurements are confirmed by auditing foresters as part of project verification site visits. Our calculations are independently confirmed by third-party verifiers, then separately reviewed by the registry for accuracy.
Conservative calculations
A lot can happen in the life of a forest. To account for the variables, Aurora uses the most conservative calculations with deductions to account for the possibilities of carbon loss. We ultimately list one carbon credit for every three to five tonnes of carbon we sequester. This ensures that our credits represent real carbon removal and storage – and protect the impact that our clients have invested in.
Carbon credits with real climate impact
Carbon credits are only as valuable as the care taken in their creation. With Aurora, your investment protects forests and the climate for the long run. We are committed to longer term durability than the voluntary carbon market requires, maintaining a credit portfolio that meets the needs of our clients and the climate.