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SUMMARY:Last Day to Add a Class
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Forest Management and the Expanding Global Forest Carbon Sink
DESCRIPTION:The School of Forest Resources Presents…. \nDr. Brent Sohngen \nProfessor\, Environmental & Resource Economics \nThe Ohio State University \nForest Management and the Expanding Global Forest Carbon Sink \nAll are welcome!  \nJanuary 27\, 2017 \nRoom 204 Nutting Hall  \n12:00-1:00 PM \nAbstract: Despite deforestation and the conversion of forests to agricultural uses globally\, the IPCC suggests that the net carbon sink globally amounts to around 1.5-2.0 Pg C per year.  In the US\, forests sequester around 0.2 Pg C per year.  Much of this increase in forest carbon storage is attributed to forest regrowth\, aging forests\, and carbon fertilization. The role of management is less well understood. This talk will present a model of historical global forest management over the period 1900-2010 with a dynamic optimization model.  The results illustrate how forest management has contributed to the current global carbon sink\, accounting for around 30% of the global sink capacity. Also assessed is how the demand for forest products\, including biofuels and carbon capture and storage\, could encourage significantly larger investments in forest management in the future.  Tradeoffs between market driven scenarios that favor biofuels\, and policy scenarios that encourage carbon sequestration and storage in forested ecosystems are examined. \nHost: Dr. Adam Daigneault\, Assistant Professor of Forest\, Recreation and Conservation Policy \nIf you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation to participate in this program\, please call Cindy Paschal\, School of Forest Resources\, as early as possible at 581-2841 or cpaschal@maine.edu to discuss your needs. \n 
URL:https://elh.umaine.edu/event/seminar-forest-management-expanding-global-forest-carbon-sink/
LOCATION:204 Nutting Hall\, Orono\, ME\, United States
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SUMMARY:CARBON OF CONVENIENCE AND ACCOUNTING TRANSPARENCY: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE POLICY
DESCRIPTION:CARBON OF CONVENIENCE AND ACCOUNTING TRANSPARENCY: CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE POLICY \n  \nAaron Strong \nAssistant Professor of Marine Policy\, University of Maine \n Climate Change Institute Lecture Series \n\nFriday\, January 27\, 2017 at 2 PM \n138 Sawyer Conference Room \nAbstract: As humanity has entered the Anthropocene\, the challenges posed by rapid anthropogenic global change have resulted in the emergence of new governance approaches for managing the disruption of the carbon cycle\, from carbon and sustainability accounting to the valuation of ecosystem carbon storage in decision-making. Institutionally\, the construction of these approaches is taking place globally across scales\, from the creation of a new international climate regime in the wake of the Paris Agreement\, to the federal government’s greenhouse gas accounting practices\, to states and local municipalities engaged in planning for the impacts of climate change. Yet our understanding of what makes such new governance approaches successful and what kinds of scientific information are needed to inform them is still nascent\, and the implications of approaches to carbon accounting and ecological valuation for environmental justice are only just being assessed. In this talk\, I first assess the current treatment of carbon cycle science in federal environmental impact statements. Based on the empirical analysis of thousands of policy documents\, I argue that our current agency environmental management practices have made normative an approach to ecosystem carbon that invokes implicit offsetting  — something I term carbon of convenience. Second\, I analyze the evolution of carbon accounting in the international climate policy regime\, with an eye toward future challenges in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. At the core of the challenges highlighted in these two case studies is a central focus on the ways in which climate change science information and climate change feedbacks are incorporated into both new and existing governance frameworks\, through both top-down and bottom-up approaches. \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~­­­­­~~~~~~~~~~ \nThe University of Maine does not discriminate on the grounds of race\, color\, religion\, sex\, sexual orientation\, including transgender status and gender expression\, national origin\, citizenship status\, age\, disability\, genetic information or veteran’s status in employment\, education\, and all other programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies: Director\, Office of Equal Opportunity\, 101 North Stevens Hall\, 207.581.1226.
URL:https://elh.umaine.edu/event/carbon-convenience-accounting-transparency-challenges-future-climate-policy/
LOCATION:138 Sawyer Conference Room\, Sawyer Environmental Research Center\, Orono\, ME\, 04469\, United States
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