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Comment 38 for 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft (sp2030disc-dec16-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Dan
Last Name: Silver
Email Address: dsilverla@me.com
Affiliation: Endangered Habitats League
Subject: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft
Comment:
Endangered Habitats League (EHL) supports the Draft’s identification of Natural and Working Lands as a “central” to meeting California’s 2030 targets. Preservation and management of Natural and Working Lands can not only sequester carbon but––particularly for Natural Lands––provide extraordinary co-benefits, such as recreation, ecological resilience to climate change, and “smart growth” patterns of development. In this context, we commend the development of an ARB Natural and Working Lands (NWL) Inventory along with the Spring Proposed 2030 Target Scoping Plan. This inventory and evaluation of carbon stock changes that come with land preservation or conversion can provide the basis for realizing the GHG benefits inherent in these lands. The analysis should fully exploit the capacity of soil to store carbon (which occurs even after wildfire consumes above ground storage). Information on soil carbon sequestration is available from UC Riverside (Dr. Mike Allen). We request that the Spring Proposed 2030 Target Scoping Plan include alternatives to realize these carbon benefits, so as to expedite implementation. Ready-to-go options include allocating Cap and Trade revenues to acquiring land for California’s Natural Community Conservation Plans (NCCPs) and extending to habitat lands the existing program for avoiding conversion of agricultural lands to developed uses. We concur with the goal of reducing greenfield development and achieving “smart growth” outcomes, but believe that this will require the development of new state-level guidance for local land use.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-12-15 17:15:43
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