Planning for Carbon
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Maximize the carbon impact of your land protection work! Learn how land protection plays a critical role in reducing climate change impacts. Second in a two-part series.
Forest protection is one of the best ways to avoid emissions, remove carbon and lessen the impacts of climate change on plant, animal and human communities. U.S. forests sequester nearly 15 percent of national carbon emissions annually. With only 20 percent of forests under some form of protection, we can’t take the carbon in our forests for granted. Protecting forests that store large amounts of carbon and ensuring carbon sequestration continues or accelerates is a critical role that land trusts can play in the effort to keep climate change below dangerous thresholds, often while providing other critical co-benefits.
In this second part of a two-part series, the Open Space Institute (OSI) and Land Trust Alliance will lay out principles for maximizing the carbon impact of land protection, including use of conservation planning, easement terms and management. The webinar will provide a deep dive into carbon mapping for land protection and provide opportunities to engage with peers to discuss best practices for optimizing carbon through easement protections and management. The presentation expands on guidance laid out in a recently released report developed by OSI in partnership with the Alliance, The Nature Conservancy and American Forests.
Missed Part 1? You can participate in part 2 even if you didn’t attend the first webinar, which provided an overview of the role of land protection in carbon mitigation and reviewed a broader set of data options and tools.
Here’s a look at what we will cover:
How to utilize online tools to evaluate land protection projects for contribution to carbon storage and sequestration
How to develop easements that permanently protect the forest carbon
Understand the intersection of carbon market sales with easement protections
Identify management approaches that support future sequestration
Coastal Blue Carbon: Methods for assessing carbon stocks
The coastal blue carbon manual aims to provide standardized methods for field measurements and analysis of blue carbon stocks and flux in coastal ecosystems.
The Carbon Pathway: An Alliance program helps land trusts navigate carbon financing
A Land Trust Alliance pilot program opens the door to carbon financing for two land trusts in Maine.
Evaluate the Contribution of Your Land Protection Project to a Low Carbon Future
Open Space Institute developed this guide to help groups that protect and steward land determine how much carbon a forest stores today, and how much additional carbon could be sequestered by 2050.
Carbon Projects to Mitigate Climate Change
Pacific Forest Trust is an early pioneer of techniques and standards used to create forest carbon projects—also known as emissions reductions or offset projects—which harness and protect the natural ability of forests to accumulate and hold carbon, acting as carbon “sinks” and providing essential climate benefits.
Building Carbon in America's Farms, Forests, and Grasslands: Foundations for a Policy Roadmap
"Building Carbon in America's Farms, Forests, and Grasslands: Foundations for a Policy Roadmap" offers new analysis to support long-term planning to enhance U.S. land management of carbon sinks to ensure healthy and productive landscapes contribute to greenhouse gas reduction goals.