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Quantifying Carbon Sources and Storage

Improving carbon accounting in North America to support the establishment of baselines, determine reduction priorities, and help manage natural systems that can serve as carbon sinks

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Our Work on Quantifying Carbon Sources and Storage

Carbon is one of the most important elements on earth and plays a major role in climate change. To help inform carbon accounting and the use of nature-based approaches to climate regulation, we support scientific research for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and for understanding carbon dynamics in natural systems.

Tools and Resources

North American Collaboration on Ecosystem Carbon Sources and Storage

Trilaterally agreed methods and products to monitor continental land cover change and model landscape-level ecosystem carbon changes to improve North America’s capacity to store carbon and reduce GHG emissions

Publications

North America’s Blue Carbon

Blue carbon ecosystems accumulate carbon in multiple ways

North American Black Carbon Emissions

Recommended methods for estimating black carbon emissions.

Integrated Modeling and Assessment of North American Forest Carbon Dynamics

Tools for monitoring, reporting and projecting forest greenhouse gas emissions and removals.

Choice of satellite imagery and attribution of changes to disturbance type strongly affects forest carbon balance estimates

Remote sensing products can provide regular and consistent observations of the Earth´s surface to monitor and understand the condition and change of forest ecosystems...

Projects

Improving Black Carbon Emission Inventory Data for Small Scale Biomass Combustion

Operational Plan 2017 - 2018

Integrated Modeling and Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Options in the North American Forest Sector

Operational Plan 2015 - 2016

North American Blue Carbon: Next Steps in Science for Policy

Operational Plan 2015 - 2016

Integrated Modeling and Assessment of North American Forest Carbon Dynamics and Climate Change Mitigation Options

Operational Plan 2013 - 2014

North America’s Blue Carbon: Assessing the Role of Coastal Habitats in the Continent’s Carbon Budget

Operational Plan 2013 - 2014

North American Black Carbon Emissions Estimation Guidelines

Operational Plan 2013 - 2014

Ecosystem Carbon Sources and Storage: Information to Quantify and Manage for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

Operational Plan 2011-2012

Improving Comparability of Emissions Data, Methodologies and Inventories in North America

Operational Plan 2011-2012