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Greenhouse Gas Action Plans and Registries

Greenhouse Gas Action Plans and Registries. Richard Birdsey USDA Forest Service. Managing the atmosphere by managing emissions and ecosystems. The United States Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gases. The National Greenhouse Gas Registry

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Greenhouse Gas Action Plans and Registries

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  1. Greenhouse Gas Action Plans and Registries Richard Birdsey USDA Forest Service

  2. Managing the atmosphere by managing emissions and ecosystems.

  3. The United States Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gases The National Greenhouse Gas Registry • In 2002, the President directed Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture to revise guidelines for reporting • Registry may support a market for transferable credits • Take into account emerging domestic and international approaches Implementation • Program is voluntary • Develop new targeted incentives for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas reductions • Research and development

  4. Regional Initiatives on Climate Change(from the Pew Center)

  5. State-level Climate Action Plans (from the Pew Center)

  6. Key Elements of National and State Greenhouse Gas Action Plans *Chicago Climate Exchange

  7. Who Cares About Carbon Management?(some examples) • States, e.g. Maine, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, many others • Forest products industry • Electricity producers • Conservation Organizations (e.g. TNC) • National Arbor Day Foundation • City of Baltimore • Chicago Climate Exchange • Energy producers, automobile manufacturers, oil companies, many other industries • Farmers, private landowners and “aggregators

  8. Need for Carbon Monitoring Decision-support Tools • Basic methodology is available but not necessarily accessible or easily used • Transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verifying may be high relative to the value of carbon credits • Simple, transparent, and easy-to-use models can be developed from existing methodology

  9. Examples of Terrestrial Carbon Management and Monitoring Decision-support Tools

  10. Decision Support “Roadmap” for Terrestrial Carbon Management • Ecoregion models: • FORCARB • CASA • LANDIS • PnET • Century • Extensive data: • FIA/FHM • Remote Sensing • Air sampling Carbon manager • Decision support: • COLE • COMET-VR • CQUEST • FVS • GHG inventory • Landscape data: • Biometrics • Remote sensing • Tree/stand models • FVS • AMORPHYS • UFORE • CORRIM Scale up • Intensive data: • CO2 flux • Meteorology • Field experiments Modeling Decision support Observations

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