Overview
- Provides specific feedback to the California Air Resources Board and provides instructions to other parties entertaining new program options
- Multi-disciplinary author group approaches the analysis from a number of different viewpoints
- Appeals to different parties working to address their strategies for climate change mitigation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science (BRIEFSENVIRONMENTAL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- biogenic carbon sinks
- Forest Inventory and Analysis
- forest offset protocols
- California cap-and-trade program
- Measurement Challenges & Uncertainty
- Baselines and Boundaries
- Model Uncertainty
- Complexity and Accounting Flow
- US Forest service
- air pollution and air quality
- Climate change management
- Forestry Management
About this book
Readers will discover the protocols used for quantifying the offset of GHG emissionsthrough forest-related project activity. As such, its scope includes a review of the current methods used in voluntary and compliance forest protocols, an evaluation of the metrics used to assign baselines and determine additionality in the forest offset protocols, an examination of key quantitative and qualitative components and assumptions, and a discussion of opportunities for modifying forest offset protocols, in light of the rapidly changing GHG-related policy and regulatory environment. Finally, the report also discusses accounting and policy issues that create potential barriers to participation in the California cap-and-trade program, and overall programmatic additionality in addressing the needs of a mitigation strategy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Laurel Bates
Laurel Bates graduated with a degree in mathematics from Appalachian State in 2016. She currently works as an economist at RTI International in Durham, NC.Â
Grant Domke
Grant Domke has leadership responsibilities for forest carbon estimation and accounting within the Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the USDA Forest Service. This program is responsible for reporting on greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the forest land category as part of the United States’ commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Alex Helms
Alex Helms holds an MS from Appalachian State University in Accounting. His work is focused on environmental accounting and is particularly interested in equivalency and timing.Â
Jason Hoyle
Jason Holye is a research analyst for the Appalachian Energy Center. Hoyle has over 10 years' experience developing both renewable energy and carbon offset projects. He also created and currently serves as Editor of the North Carolina Economic Developer’s Guide to the Renewable Energy Industries.
Benjamin Jones
Benjamin Jones receives his BS in Mathematics in 2017 from Appalachian State University. He has focused on statistical methods and on programming and developing packages for R.
Tammy Kowalczyk
Tammy Kowalczyk is a professor in the Department of Accounting in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University. She specializes in financial and sustainability accounting and is the Sustainability Outreach Fellow for the university.
Eric Marland
Eric Marland is a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Appalachian State University. Following graduate work in theoretical biology at the University of Utah and postdoctoral work at the Institute for Theoretical Dynamics at the University of California at Davis, he has worked on issues related to carbon accounting and uncertainty for 14 years.
Gregg Marland
Gregg Marland has been a Research Professor in the Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics at Appalachian State University for 5 years. Prior to that he was a Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has been involved in carbon accounting and the analysis of forest carbon offsets for 40 years.Â
Tatyana Ruseva
Tatyana B. Ruseva (PhD Indiana University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government & Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. Her work is in the area of environmental policy and natural resource governance.
Celina Szymanski
Holding an MS in Political Science from Appalachian State University, Celina Szymanski has served as managing editor of PS: Political Science & Politics, one of the American Political Science Association's flagship journals, since 2015.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding and Analysis: The California Air Resources Board Forest Offset Protocol
Authors: Eric Marland, Grant Domke, Jason Hoyle, Gregg Marland, Laurel Bates, Alex Helms, Benjamin Jones, Tamara Kowalczyk, Tatyana B. Ruseva, … Celina Szymanski
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52434-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52433-7Published: 07 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52434-4Published: 28 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 72
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Climate Change Management and Policy, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Forestry Management, Environmental Management, Energy Policy, Economics and Management