Rebecca Sanders-DeMott

High-quality forest carbon credits are essential to achieving a project’s promised climate benefits. A team of leading forest scientists evaluated and scored 20 forest carbon credit protocols relevant to North American voluntary and compliance markets to determine whether the rules of the road defined by these protocols are strong enough to ensure high-quality carbon credits. The team developed actionable recommendations for strengthening forest carbon credit protocols moving forward.

Speaker Biography

Rebecca Sanders-DeMott – Director, Ecosystem Carbon Science, Clean Air Task Force

Rebecca Sanders-DeMott is Director, Ecosystem Carbon Science on the Land Systems Program at Clean Air Task Force. She is an ecosystem ecologist with expertise in terrestrial carbon cycling and methodologies related to verification and quantification of nature-based climate solutions. She is focused on research and policy related to land-based carbon management, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and carbon offsets. Sanders-DeMott has worked at the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of New Hampshire, and the National Science Foundation. She earned a Ph.D. in Biology with a Certificate in Biogeosciences from Boston University and a B.S. from Cornell University. 

Recommended Reading

Sanders‐DeMott, R., Hutyra, L. R., Hurteau, M. D., Keeton, W. S., Fallon, K. S., Anderegg, W. R. L., Walker, W. S. (2025). Ground‐Truth: Can Forest Carbon Protocols Ensure High‐Quality Credits? Earth’s Future., 13(5).