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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 October 24, 2024
New report the report begins the process of developing evidence-based estimates of the costs to Oregonians.
By John Talberth August 29, 2024
Logging is a major source of GHG emissions in Shasta, Siskiyou, and other California counties but is ignored in the state's climate action agenda
By John Talberth June 2, 2024
Equivalent to taking 241,000 electric cars off the road each year
By John Talberth March 28, 2024
King County Superior Court rules that DNR violated SEPA by failing to disclose and mitigate the climate impacts of logging mature 'legacy' forests
By John Talberth, Daphne Wysham and Richard Mietz March 7, 2024
An overview of risk bonds, how they work, and how they are being implemented in the PNW
By John Talberth February 27, 2024
GPI 2.0 is gaining traction amongst sustainability researchers
By John Talberth February 17, 2024
How forest carbon taxes can help slow and reverse deforestation and forest degradation across the US, and internationally
By John Talberth February 2, 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 February 1, 2024
PROGRAM UPDATE MARCH 2023
By John Talberth January 16, 2024
CSE scored big gains on fossil fuel risk bonds and forests for climate
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