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Shifting Forests and Carbon: Linking Community Composition and Aboveground Carbon Attributes
Forest communities—assemblages of tree species at stand- to landscape-scales—vary in their capacity to capture and store carbon, but previous attempts using discrete forest types to quantify this relationship ...
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Open AccessImpacts of the US southeast wood pellet industry on local forest carbon stocks
We assessed the net impacts of a wood-dependent pellet industry of global importance on contemporaneous local forest carbon component pools (live trees, standing-dead trees, soils) and total stocks. We conduct...
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Open AccessDelineating managed land for reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals to the United Nations framework convention on climate change
Land use and management activities have a substantial impact on carbon stocks and associated greenhouse gas emissions and removals. However, it is challenging to discriminate between anthropogenic and non-anth...
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Overview of the Compliance Offset Protocol for U.S. Forest Projects
The Forest Offset Protocol lays out the requirements and methods for quantifying the net GHG emission and removals resulting from voluntary project activities undertaken on forested land. The ARB’s compliance ...
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Adherence to Accounting Principles
With considerable reliance on somewhat qualitative judgments, estimates, models, and assumed factors, the quality of a forest carbon accounting system can be reviewed by examining the extent to which the proce...
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Some Strategic Alternatives to Program Design, Management, and Implementation
In the forest offset program, sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere has quite a number of factors that are uncertain or pose a risk. The uncertainty among the different factors can vary by region or by p...
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Conclusion and Recommendations
There are many ideas presented in this document but here we highlight some of the major points. There is much still to be learned for implementing a forest offset program and what works for one market is likel...
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Introduction
Biogenic carbon sinks, such as forests, perform a vital role in the global carbon cycle by extracting carbon from the atmosphere as they grow and providing for carbon storage over time. Four primary mechanisms...
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Flow of Calculations for Quantifying Net GHG Reductions and Removals
Calculation of offset credits requires a chain of measurements, estimates, and modeling exercises. It requires measuring what did happen, estimating what likely happened, and modeling what might have happened....
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Role of Forest Service Data and Methodologies
Calculating forest offset credits under the California Forest Offset Protocol is heavily dependent on data from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and on methodologies developed by the USFS. The USFS data include ...
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Challenging Issues
Prior to implementation of California’s cap-and-trade policy the U.S. had no compliance market for management and mitigation of GHG emissions featuring offsets as a significant mechanism for compliance. The AR...
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A model for estimating windbreak carbon within COMET-Farm™
Agroforestry as a land management practice presents a method for partially offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural land. Of all agroforestry practices in the United States, windbreaks in particul...
