Ecology looks to make Washington reserve carbon auction reforms permanent | Washington | thecentersquare.com
How ‘carbon farming’ could help Oregon reach its climate goals - OPB
A giant Oregon wildfire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change - OPB
First Washington cap-and-trade auction nets $300 million from businesses | Washington | thecentersquare.com
Washington's first cap-and-trade auction collects more than forecast | Climate Change | capitalpress.com
State looks to seize opportunity to cash in on carbon for schools and communities | Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune
Carbon Offsets 101: Why We Can’t Offset Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis - EcoWatch
Northwest Carbon Markets Can’t Support Longer Timber Harvest Rotations - Sightline Institute
Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef? | WIRED
In November, the US Department of Agriculture approved a program that will open a path for beef producers to market their meat as low-carbon. Producers who can prove that their cattle are raised in a way that emits 10 percent less greenhouse gases than an industry baseline can qualify for the certification scheme, which is run by a private company called Low Carbon Beef.
Oregon scientists call for more forest protection to fight climate change, save species - OPB
Researchers with Oregon State University say the U.S. needs to establish new “Strategic Forest Reserves” to protect wildlife and reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.
A new study maps the Western forests that would store the most carbon and help the most species if they were given the same level of protection from logging, grazing and mining as designated wilderness areas receive.
How Minnesota farmers are getting paid to fight climate change
Nonprofit finds hope against wildfires with unexpected ally: charcoal | Crosscut
Draft climate plan excludes carbon sequestration | Rural Life | capitalpress.com
Before a USDA carbon bank, try some pilot projects, says climate alliance | Successful Farming
A few weeks ago, USDA climate adviser Robert Bonnie used a variant of “walk before you run” to describe the Biden administration goal of bipartisan support for climate mitigation in agriculture. On Monday, a sector-spanning coalition said the USDA “needs to crawl before it can walk” into a carbon bank that would help farmers adopt climate-smart practices.
The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA), a carbon bank advocate, said the USDA should lay the foundation for the climate bank by first setting up a series of pilot projects to identify fruitful avenues for future action. The alliance did not suggest how long the pilot projects would run but said they would aid the development of carbon markets and the direction of the carbon bank.
Soil moisture drives year-to-year change in land carbon uptake
Earth's land ecosystems absorb a large portion of all the carbon dioxide emissions produced by human activities, helping to slow global warming. On average for a given year, plants and soil take up, or ...
Washington climate activists disagree about how to cut carbon | Crosscut
A landmark bill in the state Legislature has split environmentalists, with some questioning whether it will reduce pollution in communities hardest hit by it.
Climate mitigation ‘designed by farmers for farmers’ | Successful Farming
Producers could see three new revenue streams from climate mitigation, he said. They were income from carbon markets, from conversion of agricultural waste into products ranging from chemicals to fabrics, and capture of methane from manure for use as a renewable fuel.
Give Your Landscape a Carbon-Positive Makeover | Sierra Club
Take things to the next level by designing your home landscape to be carbon-positive—meaning that it sequesters, or removes, more carbon dioxide than it generates.
The template for climate mitigation is soil conservation, says farm-enviro alliance | Successful Farming
The new era of climate mitigation on the farm would look like a beefed-up version of longstanding USDA conservation programs, augmented by a carbon bank that sets a floor price for carbon sequestration and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, said leaders of the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA) on Wednesday. “That’s what we’ve modeled it after,” said Chuck Connor, a founding member of the alliance and a former deputy agriculture secretary.
A former Reddit CEO is turning arid land into robust forests. Here’s how to scale it globally.
Former Reddit CEO is looking to solve Climate Change by planting 1 Trillion trees at his new startup, Terraformation
The First Farmer in the US to Sequester Carbon for Cash Earns $115,000 For His New Planting Strategies
Trey Hill uses clover, lentils, and rye as cover crops, and radishes and turnips for root crops as sequestration and regeneration agents in his corn field. Recently Hill’s farm of 10,000 acres sold its carbon credits for $16.50 per ton, through a Seattle-based startup called Nori, which allows companies and individuals to buy carbon credits to offset their own carbon emissions.
Opinion: Carbon can be the next American cash crop – if we plant trust first | 2021-02-05 | Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc.
While some similar carbon-credit programs for agriculture have been announced, many still rely on broad estimates of carbon improvements over many acres, due to the difficulty and cost of verification and validation. It’s essential that any system of carbon-credit farming is built on clear, science-based standards tied to real-world results.
USDA may use $30 bn fund to create carbon bank | Agriculture | capitalpress.com
Insiders say the new administration wants to use the money to tackle climate change, potentially by establishing a carbon bank that pays farmers to store carbon in their soil.
Can a Partnership Bury Carbon and Elevate Equity in Ghana? | Conservation Finance Network
Article: Guebert: Questions surround carbon sequestration; USDA needs to find answers
One topic most red, blue, and green politicians — and, even more strikingly, farmers — agree on is climate change; it’s real.In fact, notes the Dec. 2020 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, 58 percent of …
State legislative report for the week of Jan. 18: Carbon legislation figured prominently | WAWG
Legislation titled, “The Climate Commitment Act,” was heard in the Senate Energy, Environment & Technology Committee. The legislation, SB 5126, would establish a “cap and invest” program for greenhouse gas emissions in which emissions would be capped...
President Biden, Please Don't Get Into Carbon Farming | WIRED
This is not the solution to our climate problems; it's a sweetheart deal for Big Ag.