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Climate Change and Forestry in California



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October 19, 2009 Interagency Forestry Working Group’s (IFWG) Forest Inventory Symposium: Agenda and presentationsNotice

Staff Report: Proposed Adoption of the Updated Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocol


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The goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) have focused renewed attention on California forests and the role they play in the carbon cycle. There is a need to understand how much carbon dioxide California forests are currently producing and sequestering, and how much they could sequester in the future. There is also a need to understand how management practices could potentially increase carbon sequestration and decrease greenhouse gas loss without compromising the host of other ecosystem functions forest provide, including climate regulation, protection of air and water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, recreation and other quality of life attributes for human populations.

  ARB Forest-related Activities

Interagency Forestry Working Group (IFWG)

The IFWG will provide recommendations and technical information to assist the Board of Forestry in achieving the goals and objectives in the ARB's Scoping Plan.

The IFWG will hold a Forest Inventory Symposium on October 19, 2009. Here is the Symposium agenda which contains links to the speakers' presentations. The presentations are also available below, by presenter name.


Forest Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocols

The ARB recognizes that California's vast forestlands provide an exceptional opportunity to address the state's climate challenge through the use of voluntary Forest Project Protocols.

 

Forest Emissions Inventory

The ARB's forest sector greenhouse gas inventory includes CO2 uptake and greenhouse gas emissions from wild and prescribed fires, the decomposition and combustion of residues from harvest and conversion/development, and wood products decomposition.


Forest Scoping Plan Workgroup

The Forest Working Plan Workgroup was formed as an interagency and stakeholder workgroup to assess and further develop ideas for the ARB Scoping Plan emissions reductions from the forest sector.



For further information, please email Shelby Livingston or call (916) 327-7156

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