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Repairing America’s Tattered Forests: Forest Carbon Coalition's Policy Roadmap

This report contains a policy roadmap from Forest Carbon Coalition for maximizing the contribution of US forests to the fight against climate change.

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Beyond Fossil Fuels: Sustainable Development Opportunities in Nunavut

Prepared for Greenpeace Canada, this report lays out a sustainable development portfolio for this indigenous region in far northern Canada.

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Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds: Making the Polluters Pay for the Climate Crisis

This report describes the features of fossil fuel risk bond programs states, cities and counties can adopt to operationalize the ‘polluter pays’ principle.

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Forest Carbon Tax and Reward: Journal Article

Read CSE research advocating for a forest carbon tax and reward program to regulate the GHG emissions from industrial logging and deforestation.

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Pay for Performance: Optimizing Public Investments in Agricultural BMPs

Journal article describing a system that could replace practice-based cost share programs for agricultural BMPs.

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The Climate Impacts of Industrial Forest Practices in North Carolina – Part 1

In Part 1 of this report, CSE estimates the greenhouse gas emissions associated with industrial forest practices in North Carolina.

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By John Talberth, Daphne Wysham and Richard Mietz 07 Mar, 2024
An overview of risk bonds, how they work, and how they are being implemented in the PNW
By John Talberth 27 Feb, 2024
GPI 2.0 is gaining traction amongst sustainability researchers
By John Talberth 17 Feb, 2024
How forest carbon taxes can help slow and reverse deforestation and forest degradation across the US, and internationally
By John Talberth 02 Feb, 2024
The Wishbone Timber Sale, in King County, will release nearly 50,000 tons of greenhouse gas pollution and make the land more susceptible to water shortages, drought, wildfires, and heat waves
By John Talberth and Richard Mietz 01 Feb, 2024
PROGRAM UPDATE MARCH 2023
By John Talberth 16 Jan, 2024
CSE scored big gains on fossil fuel risk bonds and forests for climate
By John Talberth 20 Dec, 2023
A key ask of the Forest Carbon Coalition becomes a reality
By John Talberth 04 Dec, 2023
Community gardens and climate resilient cropping provide alternatives to polluting mud drags.
Ilhan Omar photo portrait in front of American Flag
By John Talberth 20 Sep, 2023
Legislation update September 2023 : After garnering the support of NGOs and five co-sponsors, Rep. Omar is now exploring options for reintroduction of the GPI Act in 2024 or possible inclusion of key components of the bill in appropriations language. Stay tuned here for further updates as the reintroduction date approaches.  Original post July 2021: On July 30th, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the GPI Act of 2021, directing the Secretary of Commerce to establish a new metric for measuring US economic performance, setting budget priorities and guiding policy– the Genuine Progress Indicator. If her bill becomes law, the GPI would effectively unseat Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the nation’s leading economic indicator, a reform long sought after by politicians, economists and civil society. Rep. Omar was joined by five House co-sponsors including Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Dwight Evans, Pramila Jaypal and Marie Newman. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and on the heels of one of the nation’s most fractured and contentious election cycles, the world of economic indicators may seem distant and esoteric, irrelevant to struggles Americans are facing every day. But the legislation is, in fact, revolutionary and transformative, signaling a long overdue shift in economic priorities away from the bottom-line profits of Wall Street corporations and towards improving economic conditions for those least well off and ordinary American households. With Biden-Harris now at the helm, this new metric should be a centerpiece of the administration’s economic policies. Despite its many logical failings and fallacies, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its state-level counterparts still reign as the most ubiquitous measures of economic performance. It works well for the world’s elites who own the means of production because when GDP grows it means more buying and selling from which they profit. But more buying and selling is not always a good thing. Sometimes it represents something that is truly beneficial (healthy food and experiences in nature) and other times it represents a cost we’d rather avoid (inflated health insurance premiums) or expenditures that reflect growing insecurity around us (guns and burglar alarms). GDP does not differentiate between costs and benefits; it considers all spending beneficial and as such provides an extremely poor measure of economic wellbeing.
By Forest Carbon Coalition 05 Sep, 2023
Coalition calls for deep reforms of practices, ownership, subsidies and incentives
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