Upcoming FCCP Events

Oct 1

2025-26 Learning Exchange Series: Managing Forests in a Changing World

October 1, 2025 3:00PM – 4:00PM Zoom
Nov 5

2025-26 Learning Exchange Series: Sustaining Forests and Securing Family Legacies with SFLR Network

November 5, 2025 3:00PM – 4:00PM Zoom

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

The FCCP Announces the 2020-21 FCWG Learning Exchange Series Lineup

Published on September 22, 2020
The FCCP is pleased to share this year’s Forest-Climate Working Group Learning Exchange Series lineup.
Welcome Dr. Kylie Clay, the new Associate Director for the FCCP

Published on September 2, 2020
Learn more about our newest team member, Kylie Clay, the Associate Director of MSU's Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP), and the US and Canada Lead.
Lauren Cooper presents on ‘What Would NGO Users Like to See More Of & Less Of?’ as a part of the 2020 FIA User Group Meeting

Published on August 26, 2020
Lauren discusses challenges and solutions of important topics with implications for FIA for FCCP stakeholders.
‘The Forestry Source: How Five Natural-Resources Professionals Work with CO2’

Published on August 26, 2020
Lauren Cooper, program director of the MSU FCCP, is featured in ‘The Forestry Source’ August issue.
MSU’s online course, Forest Certification and Climate Change, approved for SFI continuing education credits in multiple states.

Published on August 11, 2020
FCCC is pre-approved for SFI continuing education credits in nine states, and is pending pre-approval in many more.

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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.