Offering guidance for developing and implementing effective monitoring, reporting and verification practices, as well as for mitigating methane emissions, from the oil and gas sector.
Argues that current laws will need to be revised and expanded to better recognize the climate change benefits that could be achieved from placing land under conservation easements.
Surveys the complex body of state and federal law that shapes the creation, funding, tax treatment, enforcement, modification, and termination of conservation easements.
The NCED contains records for more than 130,000 conservation easements encumbering more than 24 million acres of land.
Comprehensive parkland forest management plan that expressly recognizes the value of carbon sequestered in the forests and the value of sequestration, and adopts management programs for ecological restoration that will prevent release of carbon.
Provides estimates of total carbon sequestration benefits for a number of forest management approaches.
Outlines a set of “building blocks” to help farmers, ranchers, forestland owners, and rural communities reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration, including tools for private forest growth and retention.
Provides a survey of carbon benefits from wood substitution, biomass substitution, wildfire behavior modification, and avoided land use change.
Provides a Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon management concepts into actionable tactics that help managers reduce risk from expected climate impacts in order to meet desired management goals.
Surveys the complex body of state and federal law that shapes the creation, funding, tax treatment, enforcement, modification, and termination of conservation easements.