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JEFF COLE | Vice President, Portfolio Development | San Francisco, California
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About the Talk
While national and international climate efforts struggle ahead, the California and Quebec cap and trade programs are going strong. The California program has fostered the development of dozens of forest carbon projects. All forest project owners must commit to significant initial and ongoing (100-year) carbon inventory, monitoring and verification requirements at a cost often reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Remote sensing technologies hold enormous potential for reducing the implementation and maintenance costs of forest carbon projects. They may enable participation of many of landowners who control forests that are too small given current project costs and economies of scale and may help large-scale project economics as well.
Despite this potential, so far no carbon protocols or projects have explicitly incorporated remote sensing technologies; however, some specific steps can be identified regarding how adoption could be accelerated in concert with project developers, registries and regulators.
The talk will address these issues and others:
• Current state of carbon markets in North America and beyond
• Forestry’s role in North American carbon markets
• Forest carbon project requirements, mechanics and economics
• Forest carbon inventory requirements, processes, costs
• Status of, prospects for and barriers to adoption of remote sensing by regulators and markets
• Ways to promote adoption of remote sensing by existing regulatory and voluntary carbon programs
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This talk was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on April 15, 2015, as part of the Carbon Monitoring System Applications Policy Speaker Series.
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