CHALLENGE

Bridging the gap between carbon storage potential and land ownership

While environmental datasets can reveal the carbon storage potential of landscapes, they rarely provide the property-level context needed to pursue conservation opportunities.

Identifying promising areas is only the first step. Decision-makers also need to understand property boundaries, ownership, land use, and the feasibility of protecting individual properties.

With this information spread across multiple datasets, evaluating conservation opportunities required considerable research.

TPL needed a consistent nationwide parcel framework to connect environmental intelligence with the properties where conservation decisions take place.

SOLUTION

Connecting carbon data with individual properties through a standardized parcel framework

TPL used Regrid's nationwide parcel boundaries, ownership information, and standardized land use classifications as the geographic foundation for its Conservation Carbon Map.

By integrating carbon storage estimates with this parcel data, TPL developed an interactive GIS platform spanning all 50 states.

Users can explore and compare properties based on their carbon value, land characteristics, ownership type, and conservation feasibility.

This combination enables users to move beyond landscape-scale environmental analysis and investigate specific land protection and investment opportunities.

RESULTS

Mapping carbon storage potential across 1.3 billion acres to inform conservation investment

TPL's platform makes carbon storage potential searchable at the property level across 1.3 billion acres.

Conservation teams can identify promising properties, investigate ownership, and evaluate acquisition opportunities more efficiently. The platform also helps surface potentially overlooked opportunities in regions where land costs are lower.

Research that previously took weeks can now be completed in minutes, giving land trusts, investors, and public agencies more time to focus on evaluating and pursuing opportunities.

With Regrid's parcel data as its spatial foundation, TPL's Conservation Carbon Map helps turn environmental research into practical insights for land conservation and climate investment.

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