Upcoming FCCP Events

Jun 24

2025 Learning Exchange Series: Social and Ecological Impacts of Forest Carbon Offsets

June 24, 2025 2:00PM – 3:00PM Zoom Webinar

About

The Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP) aims to increase understanding and implementation of climate-smart forest management, which inextricably links climate change mitigation and adaptation. The FCCP was established to connect professionals, natural resource managers, decision-makers, students and the broader public with the value of forested lands and forest products in addressing climate change.

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News

MSU Forest Carbon and Climate Program Appoints New Director

Published on January 23, 2025
The Department of Forest at Michigan State University (MSU) has appointed Chad Papa as director of the MSU Forest Carbon and Climate Program, effective Jan. 1, 2025.
Rowntree appointed by USDA to new advisory council for carbon credit markets

Published on January 21, 2025
The council will support the facilitation of farmer, rancher and private forest landowner participation in voluntary environmental credit markets.
Newsletter: January & February 2025

Published on January 14, 2025
Happy 2025! We'd like to share some big updates from the Forest Carbon and Climate Program. Please find these announcements below. 
MSU researcher receives $800K grant to study interregional reliance, carbon program impacts on US forest product industries

Published on October 17, 2024
A multi-institutional research team led by Raju Pokharel, an assistant professor in the MSU Department of Forestry, will study interstate and interregional reliance of wood and how carbon offset programs impact forest product industries.
MSU event at NYCW Highlights Efforts to Mobilize Private Finance for Agricultural Sector through High-Integrity Carbon Markets

Published on October 2, 2024
New York, NY – [9/27/2024]

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Graduate Certificate

Earn a Graduate Certificate in Forest Carbon Science, Policy, and Management. The Certificate consists of three 3-credit courses, all available completely online. Participants include a wide range of graduate students, recent graduates, and working professionals.

Professional Courses

The FCCP hosts a collection of online non-credit courses that provide professionals with practical knowledge and skill-building in topics of forest carbon science, policy, and management.

Partners and Projects

Program objectives are achieved through working with strategic partners to better communicate and bring attention to key topics, engage in collaborative research, create educational content and programming, and bridge dialogue gaps on carbon and climate topics related to forests and forested lands.

Open Resource Library

The Open Resource Library (ORL) is an online space dedicated to sharing educational outputs from our for-credit and non-credit course offerings to a wide audience of practitioners, educators, and members of the public. The primary goal of the ORL is to increase access to educational imagery, tools, and content regarding topics of forests and climate. This resource will be continuously updated to ensure visitors have access to up-to-date and relevant content from the FCCP.