CDR Law

Filter by Resource Type:
Filter by Publication Year:
Sort:
Current Filters:

Bill H.873 – Healthy Soils Program

2019
Proposed Legislation
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This bill creates a Healthy Soils Program within the Commission for Conservation of Soil, Water and Related Resources, which shall seek to optimize climate benefits while supporting the economic viability of agriculture in the state.

How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal

2019
Scholarly Work
Pete Smith, Jean‐Francois Soussana, Denis Angers, Louis Schipper, Claire Chenu, Daniel P. Rasse, Niels H. Batjes, Fenny van Egmond, Stephen McNeill, Matthias Kuhnert, Cristina Arias-Navarro, Jorgen E. Olesen, Ngonidzashe Chirinda, Dario Fornara, Eva Wollenberg, Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes, Alberto Sanz-Cobena, Katja Klumpp
This paper describes a new vision for a global framework for measurement/monitoring, reporting and verification platform of soil organic carbon sequestration.

Decision 4/CP.23 – Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture

2017
International Legal Instrument
Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
This decision officially acknowledges the significance of the agriculture sectors in adapting to and mitigating climate change, including work on improving soil carbon.

HB 1578 – Carbon Farming Task Force

2017
Enacted Legislation
State of Hawaii
This bill creates a carbon farming task force to identify agricultural or aquacultural activities and best practices that provide carbon sequestration benefits that may be used to establish a carbon farming certification.

S.43 – Regenerative Soils Program

2017
Proposed Legislation
State of Vermont
This bill requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to establish a regenerative soils program whose purposes include increasing the carbon sequestration capability of Vermont soils and promoting cost-effective and healthy soil management practices.

House Bill 1063 – Maryland’s Healthy Soils Program

2017
Enacted Legislation
State of Maryland
This bill directs the Maryland Department of Agriculture to develop a program to improve health, yield, and profitability of soils, increase carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, and promote further adoption of healthy soil practices.

SB 859 – Healthy Soils Program

2016
Enacted Legislation
State of California
The legislation funded the Healthy Soils Program, which offers producers incentives to adopt GHG-reducing soil health practices and funds on-farm demonstration projects.

The State and Future of U.S. Soils: Framework for a Federal Strategic Plan for Soil Science

2016
Scientific Report
Subcommittee on Ecological Systems, Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability of the National Science and Technology Council
This Framework aims to establish Federal soil research priorities, including in carbon sequestration, deliver information to land managers to help them implement soil conserving systems, and inform related policy development and coordination.