Lawson Henderson

Lawson Henderson has over a decade of experience in forest certification acting as a project manager and lead auditor of forest carbon offset projects against the major voluntary GHG programs, and FSC Forest Management & Chain of Custody Certifications. He also has extensive experience managing ANSI ISO 14065 accreditation systems for Validation and Verification Bodies (VVBs). Lawson is qualified as a Lead Verifier with the state of California Air Resources Board (ARB) for the US Forest and Urban Forest Offset Protocols, as well as Lead Verifier under the Climate Action Reserve (CAR). He is also qualified as an AFOLU IFM Expert under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) program of Verra and is a participating member of the Land Use and Forestry Technical Advisory Committee (LUF TAC) of the Gold Standard Foundation (GSF). He has led the validation and verification of IFM, AR & REDD forest carbon offset projects against the major voluntary GHG programs globally, including projects in over a dozen U.S. States, Canada, Latin America, Africa, Australia and South East Asia. Lawson holds a B.S.F in forest management from the University of New Hampshire (2005).