Contribute to Carbon Offsets for the ASLA 2025 Conference

Contribute to Carbon Offsets for the ASLA 2025 Conference  

Help ASLA achieve its goal of offsetting 3,750 tons of greenhouse gas emissions at the ASLA 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans.  

ASLA has partnered with the National Indian Carbon Coalition (NICC), an Indigenous carbon innovator, which is working with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi to preserve and improve Tribal Forests. NICC has offset credits from the Band’s forest credit project for sale. These are third-party verified offsets registered with the American Carbon Registry. 100% of contributions will be used to purchase credits from NICC.

Conference attendees can contribute to offsets when they register. Additional contributions by attendees and EXPO exhibitors can be made via this page.

One carbon offset is equivalent to an emission reduction of one metric ton of CO2. ASLA recommends attendees contribute at least three offsets to compensate for their conference emissions. ASLA EXPO exhibitors are encouraged to also offset the shipment of their booths and travel.

About the positive impact of the project

• The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians’ forest carbon project is a natural climate solution that generates carbon credits through Improved Forest Management.
• The project will protect 25,000 acres of Tribal Forests or 12 million trees on the forest lands from harvesting for 40 years. 
• The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will use the income generated from carbon sales, which would otherwise come from harvesting trees to: 
  • Build a new K-12 school campus 
  • Steward a native, growing forest
  • Enhance biodiversity and protect habitat
  • Support long-term carbon storage
  • Create measurable climate benefits

About NICC and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

• NICC was formed by the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) and the Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC). It is an Indigenous-led non-profit program that helps Tribal Nations and Indigenous landowners take advantage of carbon credits and enter environmental commodities markets through the development of carbon sequestration or offset projects.
• The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw people, and the only one in the State of Mississippi. Their 35,000-acre reservation includes lands in Mississippi’s Neshoba, Leake, Newton, Scott, Jones, Attala, Kemper, and Winston counties. The Mississippi Choctaw regained stewardship of Nanih Waiya, their mother mounds and cave in 2008. 

KOMPAN 

is the lead sponsor of ASLA 2025 Conference Carbon Offsets. 

Contribute today by choosing your level.  

If you prefer, you can send a check, payable to ASLA Fund to:

ASLA Fund
636 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3735

Please email DonateToday@asla.org if you have any questions.

Thank you for your support.

Image credit: Lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians / © Stephen Taglieri, National Indian Carbon Coalition