Upcoming FCCP Events
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Oct 1
2025-26 Learning Exchange Series: Managing Forests in a Changing World
October 1, 2025 3:00PM – 4:00PM Zoom
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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.
News
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New paper published in 'Forestry' on carbon implications of Analog Forestry in Ecuador
Published on July 27, 2020
Raúl Ramos Veintimilla, David MacFarlane, and Lauren Cooper explain the potential of an alternative silvicultural system called Analog Forestry (AF). -
Fighting climate change with forest management
Published on July 1, 2020
Lauren Cooper leads the Forest Carbon and Climate Program at MSU, which trains professionals in forestry as a way mitigate environmental damage. -
FCWG Learning Exchange Series: Wood Utilization II: Land Use and Global Outlook
Published on June 3, 2020
Speaker Mark Wishnie of BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group will present "Wood Utilization II: Land Use and Global Outlook". -
FCWG Learning Exchange Series: Wood Utilization I: Carbon Storage at the Building Scale
Published on May 6, 2020
Speaker Dr. Indroneil Ganguly presents "Wood Utilization I: Carbon Storage at the Building Scale". -
Lauren Cooper gives talk titled “The MSU Forest Carbon and Climate Program: Leveraging technology to engage multiple audiences with inclusive principles.”
Published on April 16, 2020
The MSU FCCP program director, Lauren Cooper, participated in the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) webinar “Practicing Inclusion during times of Ambiguity and Turbulence”.
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.
Forest Carbon and Climate Job Opportunities
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Contact
To reach the Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP) with comments or questions, email forestc@msu.edu.
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