Urban forestry projects follow the Registry's protocol and then receive certified carbon credits from the Registry. Carbon
buyers pay money to the urban forestry projects for the credits. The Registry will educate, inform, and recruit buyers.
watershed exper ts. You can view the protocols on the
Registry website at
www.ufregistry.org.
Here is how projects and credits will work:
An applicant wishing to obtain credits will submit an
application for its project to the Registry. Applicants
can include cities or towns, quasi-municipal entities,
parks districts, utilities, educational institutions, and
private proper ty owners. Projects must meet cer tain
eligibility requirements. For example, they must be
located within the U.S. Census Bureau-mapped Urban
Areas (these generally extend past suburban areas to
the rural interface), within any incorporated or unincor
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porated city or town, or within designated watershed
zones or utility rights-of-way.
The Registry will review the application and approve the
project for commencement if eligible. For tree planting
projects, the Registry will issue credits to projects in
intervals over a 25-year period as specified project
benchmarks are met. The Registry verifies that credited
trees are still alive and healthy at each project bench
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mark before the next round of credits can be issued to
the applicant.
For tree preser vation project s, the Registr y will
is sue credit s to project s that preser ve trees from
development or removal. Project s must preser ve
trees through an easement, a deed covenant, or
in the case of public land, a management plan.
Credit s for CO2 stored in trees preser ved can be
received beginning with completion of an ease
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