Wingspread NR Action 9

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Under the research title of the Farm Bill, launch new initiatives to:  
  1. Investigate methods for improving resilience and adaptation to the effects of climate change.
  2. Explore emerging technologies in biofuels, including cellulosics, with an emphasis on lowest possible life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions.
  3. Analyze the impacts of changes in domestic subsidies on world markets and the correlating environmental impacts.
  4. Determine the maximum extent to which forests and agricultural land can sequester carbon and identify practices which optimize sequestration.

Sequestering carbon in forests and farming

On August 27th, 2007 D.James Baker says:
More information is needed on how forests and farming sequester carbon, and how this can be monitored. This will be an important part of a cap-and-trade system. We need some careful thought here.
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