Tribal carbon offset assistance program grants

Funding is available for the following entities:

Federally-recognized Tribes. Project activities must occur on federally-recognized Tribal lands in Washington.

Proposals must be related to designing, developing, and implementing carbon projects that would occur on federally-recognized Tribal lands in Washington. Applications must include one or more of the following elements:

• Assessing an offset project’s technical feasibility.
• Assessing an offset project’s investment requirements, or development and operational costs.
• Assessing an offset project’s expected returns.
• Assessing an offset project’s administrative and legal hurdles.
• Assessing an offset project’s risks and pitfalls.
• Reducing costs associated with getting financing to develop new carbon projects.
• Developing or revising carbon offset protocols to improve applicability to Tribal lands in Washington.
• Holding intra- or intertribal meetings to evaluate offset project feasibility.