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News Articles
Literature
- A Guide to Monitoring Carbon Storage in Forestry and Agroforestry Projects (pdf) Winrock International
- Are Forests, Carbon and Climate Change Related? (pdf) Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fact Sheet
- 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 Forests of the Northeast (pdf) Forest Guild, Perschel et al, 2007
- 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
- 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´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
- Technical Guidelines Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (1605(b)) Program (pdf) Updated January 2007, U.S. Dept. of Energy
- 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
- Voluntary Carbon Standard Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Protocol (pdf)
Websites
- 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.'
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ForestTrends' Forest Carbon Portal - Clearinghouse of information, feature stories, event listings, project details, ‘how-to’ guides, news, and market analysis on land-based carbon sequestration projects—from forest to farm, throughout the world. Information and resources are updated daily.
- 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
- 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. 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.
- U. S. Global Change Research Program
- Winrock International, Forestry and Natural Resource Management
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