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S.2350 – Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018

2018
Proposed Legislation
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) establish a program to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration on U.S. private forest land through carbon incentives contracts and conservation easement agreements.

Comment on Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?

2018
Scholarly Work
Matthew P J Oreska, Karen J McGlathery, Igino M Emmer, Brian A Needelman, Stephen Emmett-Mattox, Stephen Crooks, J Patrick Megonigal, Doug Myers
This is a commentary on the article ‘Geoengineering with seagrasses: is credit due where credit is given?' that speaks to a concern in the article about a carbon crediting methodology over-allocating carbon credits for seagrass.

The Ministerial Katowice Declaration on Forests for the Climate

2018
Declaration
The Ministers / the Head of Delegations attending the twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) of the UNFCCC
This declaration underscores the key role forests must play in limiting temperature rise to 1.5˚C, and highlights the role of forests in sequestering and storing carbon in the soil.

Ocean Solutions to Address Climate Change and Its Effects on Marine Ecosystems

2018
Scholarly Work
A.K. Magnan, R. Billé, L. Bopp, V.I. Chalastani, W.W.L. Cheung, C.M. Duarte, R.D. Gates, J. Hinkel, J.-O. Irisson, E. Mcleod, F. Micheli, J.J. Middelburg, A. Oschlies, H.-O. Pörtner, G.H. Rau, P. Williamson, J.-P. Gattuso
This paper provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of 13 ocean-based climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, including ocean fertilization, alkalization, and hybrid land/ocean methods such as marine BECCS and biochar.

Novel carbon capture and utilization technologies

2018
Scientific Report
Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, European Commission
This scientific opinion, delivered to the European Commission, describes the role of carbon capture and utilization in the framework of the instruments which the EU adopted to meet its international climate change mitigation commitments.