Temperate forest biome

Size. Opportunities in temperate zone are much smaller than those in tropical and boreal biomes.  Temperate forests cover the smallest area, account only for 7% of total carbon storage, and have the least carbon absorption capacity per hectare. Furthermore, in contrast to large, continuous tropical and boreal biomes, temperate forests are diverse and regionally quite spotty and localized. Therefore, from carbon capture perspective, their opportunity set is much smaller.

Subtype. The problems are generally environmental and there is no single overarching problem to solve. For example, temperate forests are not experiencing the type of deforestation as tropics. Their opportunities relate to reforestation of abandoned agricultural lands, and problems to protection and nature conservancy. All these problems are generally local. Environmentally and species wise temperate zone is heterogeneous, covers multitude of countries and regulatory frameworks.

Solvable, Smart, Scalable, Suitable, Specific.  Therefore, whilst many of these problems are solvable, they are not scalable. In particular, it was hard to find any smart, cost-efficient ways for Aurora Forealis to create large carbon capture programs. Furthermore, solutions that existed often just required money, and are thus not suitable for a small, resource constrained foundation. Finally, Aurora Forealis appeared to have no competitive advantage as such, say in comparison to foundations like Nature Conservancy.