California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate
This plan provides multiple strategies to protect and enhance forest carbon in California, and reviews the corresponding statutory and regulatory framework to do so.
S.2350 – Forest Incentives Program Act of 2018
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.
Seaweed, Kelp, and Other Aquaculture Products – Legal Issues with Cultivation and Production as Food Sources
This document identifies the legal issues around the cultivation of seaweed and kelp at both the federal and state level.
Near-term Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration from Biorefineries in the United States
This paper evaluates low-cost, commercially ready sequestration opportunities for existing biorefineries in the United States.
Opportunities and Trade-Offs Among BECCS and the Food, Water, Energy, Biodiversity, and Social Systems Nexus at Regional Scales
This paper presents an interdisciplinary research framework to examine the trade-offs as well as the opportunities among BECCS scenarios using the Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) as a case study.
Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS): Global Potential, Investment Preferences, and Deployment Barriers
This paper explores the influence of expertise, actor type, and origin on preferences for investing in BECCS, views of the role of BECCS as a mitigation technology, and assesses the possible domestic barriers to BECCS deployment.
Policy Support for Biochar: Review and Recommendations
This paper examines the role that government policy can play in accelerating production and use of biochar at commercial scale in the United States.
Reviews and Syntheses: Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiments – Past, Present, and Future Looking to a Future Korean Iron Fertilization Experiment in the Southern Ocean (KIFES) Project
This article suggests designs to maximize the effectiveness of artificial ocean iron fertilization (aOIF) under international aOIF regulations.
Oceans in Transition: Incorporating Climate-Change Impacts into Environmental Impact Assessment for Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
This Article reviews the existing international law and policy framework for environmental impact assessment in areas beyond national jurisdiction, with a look at how ocean iron fertilization fits into the existing framework.
Can We Make the Oceans Greener? The Successes and Failures of UNCLOS as an Environmental Treaty
The article evaluates if customary international law and treaty negotiations for sustainable use of biodiversity areas beyond national jurisdiction will progress the goal of marine environmental protection, with a brief look at ocean fertilization.