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Findings from the U.S. Department of Energy's Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
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Best Practices for Terrestrial Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
2011 West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) Phase II Reports for Oregon
2008 - West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) Phase I Reports for Oregon
West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) Phase I Reports for Oregon
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- American Forest Foundation’s Management Plan Guidance for Carbon Sequestration. Guidance document for including carbon sequestration and carbon marketing into your management plan. Link courtesy of the American Tree Farm System’s Sightline Express (January 2011).
- Dogwood Carbon Solutions is a landowner agency providing access to the emerging greenhouse gas emission market for farmers and forest landowners of all sizes. Dogwood Carbon is committed to linking conservation-minded landowners with available economic incentives in order to meet the goals of improved land management and ecosystem health. Thus far, Dogwood Carbon has developed carbon projects on nearly 200,000 acres of private land focusing on improved forest management, afforestation and grassland restoration projects in the Midwest and Southern United States. See also recent announcement with CE2 Carbon Capital LLC @ http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100623005241&newsLang=en. (This information adapted from the Society of American Foresters E-Forester, June 25, 2010).
- Northwest Natural Resource Group - NW Neutral - Bringing local landowners together with local businesses to buy and sell credible local carbon offsets
- Woodlands Carbon Company - Woodlands Carbon helps family woodland owners access voluntary carbon markets.
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- A Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry and Agroforestry Projects (pdf) Winrock International
- A Synthesis of the Science on Forests and Carbon for U.S. Forests. Ryan, M.G., et al. 2010. Issues in Ecology 13:1-17. Link courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
- Adapting to Climate Change: A Short Course for Land Managers. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pacific Northwest Research Station, General Technical Report 789
- Are Forests, Carbon and Climate Change Related? (pdf) Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fact Sheet
- Building Bridges - State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2010 (Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2010) by Katherine Hamilton, Milo Sjardin, Molly Peters-Stanley and Thomas Marcello (Courtesy of Northwest Natural Resource Group’s Northwest Certified Forestry August 2010 Newsletter).
- Carbon Accounting and Management of Lying Dead Wood (2011) by Alexander M. Evans and Mark J. Ducey. Publishted by Forest Guild. Link courtesy of Western Forestry Leadership Coalition Update for January 31, 2011.
- Carbon Finance II: Investing in Forests for Climate Protection is a collection of lectures given during the 2008-2009 Carbon Finance Speaker Series at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management. The lectures highlight major trends in the forest carbon markets and, in many cases, underscore the importance of policy to providing investment security.
- Carbon Sequestration - A Working Example in Oregon (pdf)
An article by James F. Cathcart, Ph.D. reprinted with permission from the
Journal of Forestry (vol.98, no.9, pp. 32-37) published by the Society of American Foresters.
- Climate Change And Oregon (pdf), U.S. EPA, Office of Policy, EPA 236-F-98-007u, September 1998. Global impacts to Oregon
- Climate Change, Carbon and the Forests of the Northeast (2007) by Robert T. Perschel, Alexander M. Evans and Marcia J. Summers. Publishted by Forest Guild.
- Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the United States (pdf) Malmsheimer et al, 2008, Journal of Forestry. April/May 2008
- Forests, Carbon and Climate Change: A Synthesis of Science Findings - Oregon Forest Resources Institute, OSU College of Forestry, Oregon Department of Forestry
- Forests, Carbon and Climate Change: Exploring the Role of Trees In Reducing Atmospheric Carbon (pdf) Oregon Forest Resources Institute
- Growing Carbon: A New Crop that Helps Agricultural Producers and the Climate, Too (pdf) Environmental Defense, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA National Agroforestry Center, Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Implications of Climate Change for Conservation, Restoration and Management of National Forest Lands (pdf) Brown, Rick. 2008, Defenders of Wildlife
- Integrated management of carbon sequestration and biomass utilization opportunities in a changing climate: Proceedings of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop; 2009 June 15-18; Boise, ID. Proceedings RMRS-P-61 -- Jain, Theresa B.; Graham, Russell T.; and Sandquist, Jonathan, tech. eds. Integrated management of carbon sequestration and biomass utilization opportunities in a changing climate: Proceedings of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop; 2009 June 15-18; Boise, ID. Proceedings RMRS-P-61. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 351 p. To download articles from the Full Proceedings, go to: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p061.html.
- Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report (pdf) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report, adopted section by section at IPCC Plenary XXVII (Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007), represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning key findings and uncertainties contained in the Working Group contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report.
- Frequentlyy Asked Questions (pdf) - IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
- Oregon Climate Assessment Report - 2010 – An assessment of climate change impacts to Oregon’s natural resources. Prepared by the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute.
- Oregon´s Carbon Investment In Family Forestlands (pdf)
Article by James F. Cathcart, Ph.D. appearing in Northwest Woodlands
Summer 2000, Volume 16, No. 3
- The Role for Sustainably Managed Forests in Climate Change Mitigation (pdf) Ruddell et al, 2007, Journal of Forestry, September 2007
- Scorecard for Evaluating Forest Carbon Offset Project Quality (pdf) Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, #MCCS NCI 2008-1, November 2008
- Reporting Guidelines Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (1605(b)) Program Updated January 2007, U.S. Dept. of Energy
- Status and Future of the Afforestation and Reforestation Carbon Sector – by Eduard Merger. August 2010. 17 p. Available through Carbonpositive. This report provides a detailed overview of developed and implemented afforestation and reforestation projects. Link courtesy of Forest Management Division, Forest Conservation Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s CLIM-FO Climate Change & Forestry Electronic Journal and Newsletter (September 2010).
- Turn that Field or Brush Patch into a Forest (pdf) Article by James F. Cathcart, Ph.D. appearing in Northwest Woodlands, Summer 2002, Volume 18, No 3
- U.S. Forest Carbon Calculation Tool: Forest-Land Carbon Stocks and Net Annual Stock Change (USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station)
- Voluntary Carbon Standard Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Protocol (pdf)
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- American Carbon Registry - the first private voluntary greenhouse gas registry in the U.S. and one of the largest in the U.S. voluntary and pre-compliance markets.
- Australian Pollution Reduction Scheme
- California Climate Action Registry Forestry Protocols
- Carbon Calculator for Tree Planting Projects - A new Tree Carbon Calculator has been developed by the US Forest Service Center for Urban Forest Research and approved by the California Climate Action Registry's Urban Forest Project Reporting Protocol for quantifying carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration from tree planting projects (courtesy of the Western Forest Leadership Coalition Update January 13, 2009).
- Carbon Inventory Tools - A toolbox full of basic calculation tools to help quantify forest carbon for planning or reporting. Tools developed by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station.
- Carbon On-Line Estimator (COLE) - A convenient way to customize the forest carbon yield tables developed for the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases under Section 1605(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Developed by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement and the USDA Forest Service.
- Carbon Trading Primer - A Primer for Forest Landowners -- National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
- The CarbonFix Standard - A new international practical standard for the carbon accounting of forestation projects to facilitate forest projects in the voluntary market for carbon offsets. CarbonFix e. V., Stuttgart, Germany
- CarbonTracker - website found courtesy of CLIM-FO-L (An Electronic Journal on Climate Change and Forestry), No. 3 (2007) CarbonTracker: A system to keep track of carbon dioxide uptake and release at the Earth's surface over time CarbonTracker is designed for policy makers, industry, scientists, and the public need CarbonTracker information to make informed decisions to limit greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. The website gives information on a system that calculates carbon dioxide uptake and release at the Earth's surface over time. It estimates the carbon dioxide exchange from an 'atmospheric point of view.'
- Chicago Climate Exchange,® Inc. (CCX®) is a self-regulatory exchange that administers the world´s first multi-national and multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhouse gas emissions.
- Climate Change Briefing and Synthesis Papers - Examing Climate Change and Natural Resource Conservation in the Context of a Changing Landscape, Land Use and Natural Resource Economics Research Group, USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University.
- Climate, Forests and Woodlands – Oregon State University Extension “eXtension” website providing information and resources that address climate change and forests including climate change models, climate-forest interactions and management/adaptation.
- Climate Soluctions - Building the Biocarbon Economy - How the Northwest Can Lead - The biocarbon paradigm aims at leveraging plant growth and rich soils to halt the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and then to achieve a global turnaround. By making nature a climate ally humanity can actually begin to draw down carbon dioxide toward levels that prevailed before we began massively consuming fossil fuels. This is a series of briefings on biocarbon, specially focused on how the Pacific Northwest can mount regional initiatives to accelerate biocarbon progress. For forestry, see: Reinventing Forestry: Growing Ecosystem Services by Patrick Mazza, Research Director, Climate Solutions.
- The Climate Trust is a non-profit organization that meet's Oregon's statutory requirements for developing carbon offsets through the monetary path approach to Oregon's carbon emission standard for non-regulated fossil fuel power plants. The Climate Trust also develops carbon offset projects for other emitters and works to promote innovative climate change solutions and sound offset policies.
- COMET-VR - The Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases-CarbOn Management Evaluation T ool (COMET-VR ) tool is a decision support tool for agricultural producers, land managers, soil scientists and other agricultural interests. Developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service.
- Forest Climate Working Group - A new coalition representing virtually all sectors of the forest community—the forest products industry, conservation and wildlife groups, foresters, private forest owners, academics, and carbon finance groups—today called upon Congress to include private working forests as a central part of federal climate change policy. The American Forest Foundation, along with The Trust for Public Land launched the diverse group a year ago. The group's website is hosted by the American Forest Foundation.
- Forest Service Creates Climate Change Research and Development Website
Website source courtesy of Society of American Foresters, May 14, 2007 "E-Forester" From the website: "As a land management agency, the USDA Forest Service has a unique responsibility to address questions about climate change mitigation and adaptation involving the many issues that challenge forest and rangeland owners, managers, and users. The agency's research and development focuses on questions about climate change impacts, such as the adaptation actions needed to increase resilience of forests and ranges to the effects of climate change; the potential of forests to mitigate atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration changes by storing additional carbon in living vegetation and forest products; and reducing fossil carbon use by increasing production of biofuels and substituting forest products for more greenhouse gas-intensive materials." To learn more, visit the Forest Service website.
- Forests and climate change: A convenient truth - This 17-minute video presentation, produced by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom, shows how much forests can contribute to the mitigation of climate change, stressing the importance of reversing forest loss. Link courtesy of FAO INFOSYLVA 2009-01.
- Forest Trends' - Ecosystem Marketplace Forest Carbon Portal - Clearinghouse of information, feature stories, event listings, project details, news, and market analysis on land-based carbon sequestration projects—from forest to farm, throughout the world. Information and resources are updated daily. See the following reports:
- Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium (GEMCo)
The Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium ("GEMCo") is a not-for-profit Canadian corporation formed by companies that wish to demonstrate industry leadership in developing voluntary and market-based approaches to greenhouse gas emissions management. Members include: ATCO Electric, BC Gas, BC Hydro, Enbridge Consumers Gas and Pipelines, EPCOR Utilities Inc., Nova Scotia Power, Ontario Power Generation Inc., SaskPower, TransAlta Corporation, TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.
- National Biomass and Carbon Dataset -- High-resolution (30 meter), year-2000 baseline estimate of basal area-weighted canopy height, aboveground live dry biomass, and standing carbon stock for the conterminous United States. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation’s Climate Change and Forestry Electronic Electronic Journal and Newsletter CLIM-FO (April 2011).
- Oregon's Climate Change Portal - Everything you wanted to know about how Oregon is addressing climate change.
- Seattle City Light
- Taskforce on Adapting Forests to Climate Change
- Trexler Climate + Energy Services, Inc. (TC+ES)
- U. S. Department of Energy, Enhancing DOE´s Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (1605(b)) Program (new reporting guidelines)
- U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Response to Climate Change Webpages -- Information about BLM’s three-pronged approach to climate change: 1) Landscape Approach; 2) Rapid EcoRegional Assessments; and 3) EcoRegional Direction. Link courtesy of the Society of American Forester’s E-Forester December 3, 2010.
- U. S. Forest Service
- Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) - The Climate Change Resource Center is a reference Web site for resource managers and decisionmakers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation on lands in the West. While some of the information is east-coast relevant, it is likely that the CCRC will eventually expand to include more eastern-relevant content.
- Ecosystem Services - This website is a one-stop shop and portal for a universe of information and literature about ecosystem services, including carbon-relevant literature.
- US Forests and Carbon – Data compiled by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station on carbon stored in US forests by state and sub-region (based on Forest Inventory and Analysis plot data) and reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Link provided by US Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Carbon Sequestration Newsletter (November 2010).
- U. S. Global Change Research Program
- Winrock International, Forestry and Natural Resource Management
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