Provides estimates of total carbon sequestration benefits for a number of forest management approaches.
Outlines recommendation related to private forest management, urban forests, forest health funding, fire assistance, and federal and state land management policy.
Provides a survey of carbon benefits from wood substitution, biomass substitution, wildfire behavior modification, and avoided land use change.
Provides a toolkit for state governments looking to use forests and forest products as a climate mitigation strategy while also advancing other environmental and economic goals in their states.
The Congressional Research Service’s 2009 report examines the use of afforestation to provide offsets under a cap-and-trade approach.
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.
Colorado authorizes EV manufacturers that have no existing dealer franchise to be able to sell their vehicles directly to customers.
A pioneering law requiring permanent vegetative buffers on farmland abutting lakes and streams. The law was designed to reduce runoff, but will also increase soil carbon sequestration on the new strips.
Calls for development of a comprehensive strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, including methane. CARB’s strategy calls for significant decreases in emissions from dairy manure management.
The Land Trust Alliance maintains a database of income tax incentives for land conservation. Their webpage discusses application of the federal conservation tax deduction in detail. Their April 2019 update to this list is captured here.