1. Greenhouse Gas Action Plans and Registries Richard Birdsey USDA Forest Service

2. Managing the atmosphere by managing emissions and ecosystems.

3. The United States Plan for Reducing Greenhouse Gases The National Greenhouse Gas Registry In 2002, the President directed Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture to revise guidelines for reporting Registry may support a market for transferable credits Take into account emerging domestic and international approaches Implementation Program is voluntary Develop new targeted incentives for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas reductions Research and development

4. Regional Initiatives on Climate Change (from the Pew Center)

5. State-level Climate Action Plans (from the Pew Center)

6. Key Elements of National and State Greenhouse Gas Action Plans NationalStates/regions Voluntary*Mandatory Incentive basisEmissions allowances assigned Limited emissions tradingActive emissions trading* Emissions reduction and sequestration* Mostly emissions reduction *Chicago Climate Exchange

7. Who Cares About Carbon Management? (some examples) States, e.g. Maine, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, many others Forest products industry Electricity producers Conservation Organizations (e.g. TNC) National Arbor Day Foundation City of Baltimore Chicago Climate Exchange –Energy producers, automobile manufacturers, oil companies, many other industries –Farmers, private landowners and “aggregators

8. Need for Carbon Monitoring Decision-support Tools Basic methodology is available but not necessarily accessible or easily used Transaction costs for monitoring, reporting, and verifying may be high relative to the value of carbon credits Simple, transparent, and easy-to-use models can be developed from existing methodology

9. Examples of Terrestrial Carbon Management and Monitoring Decision-support Tools

10. Tree/stand models FVS AMORPHYS UFORE CORRIM Decision support: COLE COMET-VR CQUEST FVS GHG inventory Extensive data: FIA/FHM Remote Sensing Air sampling Landscape data: Biometrics Remote sensing Intensive data: CO 2 flux Meteorology Field experiments Ecoregion models: FORCARB CASA LANDIS PnET Century Carbon manager Scale up Decision Support “Roadmap” for Terrestrial Carbon Management Observations ModelingDecision support