We commend the Obama administration for recognizing the positive role that forests and other lands play in addressing climate change, and we commend the report as a significant compendium of current climate-related federal programs that affect natural resources, if not yet a true way forward to harness these resources to mitigate climate change.
Forest loss and degradation is the second largest source of CO2 emissions, and the source of 30+% of net “excess”, human-emitted CO2 in the atmosphere today. However, N. Unger suggests that forests were not essential in creating a safe atmosphere for human evolution (which, of course, they were).
Join the Pacific Forest Trust for a very special discussion with two of the world’s preeminent forest scientists, Dr. Jerry Franklin and Dr. Steve Sillett.
“The America Gives More Act,” which contains the “Conservation Easement Incentive Act” passed the House with a bipartisan vote of 277-130, clearing a way to create a permanent tax incentive for donating all or part of a conservation easement.
On Yosemite’s 150th anniversary, PFT is giving what we hope is just the beginning of a historic gift—the 80-acre O’Conner Ranch. Sitting along Yosemite’s western boundary, three miles west of Chinquapin and Highway 41, this gift parcel is made possible in part through the generosity of the Resources Legacy Fund.
California 2014-15 budget makes historic investments in forests and other natural, working lands to reduce carbon emission and increase carbon storage to help achieve the state’s ambitious climate goals. The funding for these investments was generated by the auction of pollution allowances under the state’s cap and trade program created by AB 32.
