Chestnut Carbon

Land History: Row crop or hay fields with sections for recreational use such as hunting and fishing.

Land History: Cattle farming and hay production with sections for recreational use such as hunting and fishing.

Over 70,000 acres restored to native U.S. forests

Chestnut’s Sustainable Restoration Project properties in the Southeast U.S. leverage marginal agricultural land, high carbon yield potential, native seedlings, and lower natural disaster risk.

Demand for carbon credits is spreading beyond tech heavyweights, says CEO of major supplier.

Chestnut Carbon, a leader in nature-based carbon solutions, faced a common challenge in the voluntary carbon market: how to credibly demonstrate the broader environmental and social benefits of afforestation beyond carbon sequestration.

Mara St. Amant brings expertise in forest modeling, carbon markets, and data analysis to her role as Carbon Analyst—skills that are critical to ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of Chestnut’s improved forest management (IFM) program.

Chestnut has completed its largest U.S. planting operation to date.

These credits represent the first IFM credits issued to a U.S.-based project that uses Verra’s newly introduced tool for differentiating reductions and removals in IFM Projects (VT0015).

Chestnut's Sustainable Restoration Project became the first U.S.-based project verified through the Forest Stewardship Council Verified Impact program for Biodiversity Conservation – Restoration of Natural Forest Cover.

Chestnut partners to restore and conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland across the United States.

Prior to joining Chestnut, Brian served as Managing Director and Deputy Director of Global Sustainability, Strategy and Operations at JPMorgan Chase. In his

Chris Hanson is a Principal in CPP Investments’ Sustainable Energies Group. Chris focuses on North American investment opportunities across the energy sector.

Brian Anderson contributes expertise in forestry, forest inventory, and carbon modeling to Chestnut’s Product team, ensuring projects meet scientific rigor and long-term integrity standards.

Greg Adams is Chief Financial Officer of Chestnut, having previously worked at FuelCell Energy as Senior VP, Finance & Strategic Development.

Chestnut is a nature-based carbon offset developer focused on projects of the highest quality.

Chestnut offers long-term partnerships for carbon footprint offsets and land enrollment in carbon projects.

Chestnut’s afforestation projects are augmented with special activities to improve long-term outcomes for many stakeholders.

Chestnut exceeds third-party standards for stakeholder consultation to ensure project quality.

Chestnut builds forests, removes carbon, and delivers net-zero solutions.

The project provides multiple culturally appropriate methods for submitting a grievance using a form accessible on its stakeholder’s web page, with options