If you will be at AGU24 next week, join us Tuesday, December 10th at 6pm in Salon H for our MMRV Town Hall at AGU 2024hashtag <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=agu2024&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7270887303458222080>for an expert panel on "Toward Real and Achievable Carbon Drawdown: Advances in MMRV Policy and Techniques for Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Climate-Smart Commodities, and CDR"
The DOE FECM sponsored CDR MMRV Framework Workshop Report of the North American Carbon Program and U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program highlights fundamental knowledge gaps in climate-smart and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy implementation. These include the need for rigorous ecosystem and landscape-scale assessments, representative data, and rigorously benchmarked protocols. The National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. GHG Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System is a framework for efficiently enhancing the coordination and integration to support Measuring, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MMRV) efforts to meet the growing demand for trusted and reliable GHG information to inform climate strategies. Strategies that optimize climate benefits require robust MMRV protocols and use the appropriate counterfactual as a baseline for comparison. Appropriate comparisons must account for substitution, moral hazards, leakage, and arbitrage—particularly in carbon markets, which are poorly regulated and rarely verifiable. In this Town Hall, an expert panel will introduce the state of the science and policy followed by a full audience discussion. By convening diverse individuals in the carbon cycle, MMRV, forestry, agriculture, and policy communities, we aim to support continuous improvement and build a holistic understanding of robust MMRV frameworks to lead to true carbon drawdown. To unsubscribe from this list please go to https://community.esa.org/confirm/?u=RhPWqPxFwODKvbkiT32nkIqRrsiSgulp
