Listening Sessions Around the Country
Please click here for our ecosystem services workshops in these areasPolicy Papers and Briefing Materials
Overview of Agricultural and Forestry GHG Offsets on the US Landscape
Technical Guidelines - Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases (1605(b)) Program
Instead of Soil Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: A Role for American Agriculture
Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy
General
http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/index.php
The Ecosystem Marketplace seeks to become the world's leading source of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services; services such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity by providing solid and trust-worthy information on prices, regulation, science, and other market-relevant issues.
http://www.envtn.org/index.htm
The Environmental Trading Network is a national clearinghouse for water quality trading projects. It was initially established as the Great Lakes Trading Network, an adjunct to maximize the regional impacts of the Kalamazoo River Water Quality Trading Demonstration Project in May 1998 (Michigan). It covers water quality trading, greenhouse gas markets, water quantity management and other ecosystem services.
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change offers a wealth of resources on global climate change.
http://earthtrends.wri.org/features/index.php?theme=8
World Resources Institute EarthTrends maintains an “environmental information portal” that features present articles about the most important conditions and trends in environmental and sustainable development.
Resources for the Future provides social science research information for making policy on environmental and natural resources.
http://www.climateandfarming.org/index.php
Climate Change and Northeast Agriculture provides a unique and comprehensive set of resource materials to help farmers make practical and profitable responses to climate changes including an overview, climate change impacts on agriculture and energy, greenhouse gases and farming.
Federal
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/GlobalClimate/
USDA’s Economic Research Service’ s research focuses on how changes in global climate may affect both U.S. and world agricultural production and how practice—such as conservation tillage or winter cover crops— can mitigate climate change by reducing emissions or increasing carbon sequestration.
http://www.usda.gov/oce/global_change/index.htm
USDA’s Global Change Program Office serves as USDA's focal point for climate change issues and coordinates activities with other Federal agencies, interacting with the legislative branch on climate change issues affecting agriculture and forestry, and representing USDA on U.S. delegations to international climate change discussions.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
The Environmental Protection Agency's Climate ChangeSite offers comprehensive information on climate change for communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments.
Academic
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Nicholas Institute for Policy Solutions, Duke University
Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, Stanford
Links to other pilot projects around the country
http://www.worldwildlife.org/pes/flranchlands.cfm
World Wildlife Fund’s Florida Ranchlands Environmental Services Project (FRESP) offers ranchers in the Lake Okeechobee watershed an opportunity to provide environmental services like water retention and improved water quality in ways that save taxpayers money, provide additional revenue, preserve rural communities and enhance wildlife habitats.
Agragate, a spin off company from the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, is focused on helping American farmers, ranchers and private forest owners tap into a new revenue stream – the sale of carbon credits from their land.
http://www.wetlands-initiative.org/
The Wetlands Initiative is exploring the possibility of “nutrient farming” to finance the large scale restoration of wetlands.