New Greenhouse Gas Reporting Guidance for Farms and Forests
The U.S. Department of Agriculture provided the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with new accounting rules and guidelines for reporting greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in the forest and agriculture sectors. For more information on these guidelines, please visit: http://www.usda.gov/oce/gcpo/greenhousegasreporting.htm and http://www.pi.energy.gov/enhancingGHGregistry.

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Supreme Court to Hear "Greenhouse" Gas Case. Associated Press, June 26, 2006.

World CO2 Emissions to Rise 75% by 2030. Timothy Gardner, Reuters, June 21, 2006.

Western Governors Adopt Policies on Clean, Diversified Energy, Global Climate Change and Transportation Fuels. Press release from the Western Governors' Association Annual Meeting, Sedona, Arizona, June 11, 2006.

Earth-Solar Cycle Spurs Greenhouse Gases. Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, May 22, 2006.

UN-Sponsored Efforts to Combat Climate Change Move to Next Level. Press Release, United Nations, Bonn, Germany, May 16, 2006.

Climate Change: EPA and DOE Should Do More to Encourage Progress under Two Voluntary Programs. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), GAO-06-97, April 2006.

10 States Sue EPA over Global Warming. CNN.com, April 27, 2006.

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2004. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, April 2006.

Turning up the Heat. Bret Schulte, U.S. News and World Report, April 10, 2006.

No-Till Historic Experiment Reaches Middle Age. Palladium-Item, February 12, 2006.

Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change: Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to Act. Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, January 29, 2006.

Drivers Atone for Exhaust with Carbon Offsets. Linda Baker, The Christian Science Monitor, January 4, 2006.

Pay Dirt. Sylvia Wright, UCDavis Magazine Online, Volume 23, No. 2, Winter 2006.

On December 20, 2005, seven states announced an agreement to implement the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, as outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the Governors of the participating states.

First Conservation Initiative Certified for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Bolivia’s Noel Kempff Climate Action Project Certified. The Nature Conservancy, December 19, 2005.

2005 Continues the Warming Trend: Year's Temperatures Are Among the Highest on Record, Scientists Announce. Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, December 16, 2005.

New Environmental Market Created: Montreal Climate Exchange - Montreal Exchange and Chicago Climate Exchange Announce Joint Creation of a Canadian Environmental Products Exchange. PRNewswire, December 7, 2005.

Heavy Weather: How Procrastination and Politics Hobble Action on Climate Change. Fiona Harvey, Financial Times, December 6, 2005.

On Climate Change, A Change of Thinking. Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times, December 4, 2005.

Climate Change News. Environmental and Energy Study Institute, October 28, 2005.

Japan should Introduce Carbon Tax in 2007 - Ministry. Reuters News Service, October 27, 2005.

Natsource Closes Greenhouse Gas Credit Pool with $550 Million. SustainableBusiness.com, October 19, 2005.

Growers Can Profit From Parking Carbon on Farm. AScribe Newswire, October 3, 2005.

9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants. The New York Times, Anthony DePalma, August 24, 2005.

Search Is on Way to Trap Planet-Heating Carbon Dioxide. Cox News Service, Jeff Nesmith, August 19, 2005.

Weyerhaeuser Joins Carbon-Market Alliance. GreenBiz.com, August 18, 2005.

Errors Cited in Assessing Climate Data. New York Times, Andrew Revkin, August 12, 2005.

Faster Carbon Dioxide Emissions Will Overwhelm Capacity of Land and Ocean to Absorb Carbon. Robert Sanders, UCBerkeleyNews, August 2, 2005.

Bush Administration Unveils Alternative Climate Pact. New York Times, July 28, 2005. (subscription required)

Outsourcing Forests to India. Aditi Tandon, Times News Network, July 25, 2005.

U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Sources 2004 Flash Estimate. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, June 2005.

World Faces Massive Increase in CO2 Emissions. Jon Walter, Agence France-Presse, July 20, 2005.

U.S. Gets More Asian Air Pollution Than Thought. UC Davis News Service, July 20, 2005.

Methane’s Impacts on Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates. Krishna Ramanujan, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, July 18, 2005.

Climate Changes on Carbon Trading. Kevin Anderson, BBC News, July 14, 2005.

 U.S. Scientists Pile on Pressure over Climate Change. David Adam, The Guardian, June 8, 2005.

Entergy to Expand Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge. MSNBC, May 24, 2005.

U.S. Supports Korea's Entry to Climate Change Forum. Seo Jee-yeon, The Korea Times, May 20, 2005.

U.S. Doubts New Kyoto Climate Deal after 2012. Alister Doyle, Reuters, May 18, 2005.

State and Trends of the Carbon Market. World Bank Carbon Finance Business and the International Emissions Trading Association, May 17, 2005. (pdf file)

European Emissions Trade Takes Off as World Watches. Jeff Mason, Reuters, May 16, 2005.

Rebuffing Bush, 132 Mayors of U.S. Cities Embrace GHG Emissions Reductions. Eli Sanders, New York Times, May 14, 2005.

Ten U.S. Corporations Pledge Greenhouse Gas Cuts (EPA's Climate Leaders Program Announces New Commitments). GreenBiz.com, May 12, 2005.

Greenhouse Gas Trade Growing Sharply–World Bank. Vera Eckert, Reuters, May 11, 2005.

Washington State Adopts California’s Stringent Emission Rules. Bruce Geiselman, Waste News, May 10, 2005.

GE Calls for Clear U.S. Climate Policy. Point Carbon, May 10, 2005.

New York Follows California on Greenhouse Gases. Point Carbon, May 9, 2005.

New Zealanders First to Levy Carbon Tax. John Vidal, The Guardian, May 5, 2005.

Carbon Dioxide Continues Its Rise. David Shukman, BBC News, March 31, 2005.

States, Territories Set Up Carbon Trading Scheme. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), March 31, 2005.

Big Biz Warms Up to Climate Change. Jessica Seid, CNN/Money, March 18, 2005.

EU Trades Pollution As Kyoto Pact Begins. Kirk Shinkle, Investor's Business Daily, February 16, 2005.

U.S. Committed to Addressing Challenges of Global Climate Change. U.S. Department of State, February 15, 2005.

Carbon Credit Pilot Project Meetings Scheduled for February. Mary Lou Peter, Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, January 27, 2005.

Canada Gets Kyoto Plan Together. Point Carbon, January 25, 2005.

Call for Canadian Emissions Trading Scheme. Point Carbon, January 25, 2005.

Airports Back Aviation Carbon Emission Trading. Point Carbon, January 24, 2005.

Nepal to Ratify Kyoto Protocol. Xinhua, January 22, 2005.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company to Certify and Report GHG Emissions. Point Carbon, January 20, 2005.

Caterpillar Sets Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target. Point Carbon, January 19, 2005.

Blair Pushes Bush on Climate Change. Point Carbon, December 9, 2004.

U.S. Defends Global Warming Strategy at International Climate Summit. Bill Cormier, Associated Press, December 8, 2004.

"U.S. Will Inevitably Return to Kyoto Process." Says France. The Tocqueville Connection, December 7, 2004.

Study: Arctic Warming Threatens People, Wildlife. Eight-nation report faults fossil fuels; U.S. in wait-and-see mode. MSNBC News, November 8, 2004.

Russian MPs Ratify Kyoto Treaty. BBC News, October 22, 2004.

Climate Fear as Carbon Levels Soar: Scientists Bewildered by Sharp Rise of CO2 in Atmosphere for Second Year Running. Paul Brown, The Guardian, October 11, 2004.

"Global Peril" of Fire and Fertilisers. Ian Sample, The Guardian, October 9, 2004.

U.S. Climate Tech Firm to Float on AIM. Richard Wary, The Guardian, October 8, 2004.

Exxon Admits Greenhouse Gas Increase. Terry Macalister, The Guardian, October 7, 2004.

Russian Cabinet Backs Kyoto Protocol. Associated Press, The Guardian, September 30, 2004.

Signs from Earth. Tim Appenzeller and Dennis R. Dimick, National Geographic Magazine, September 7, 2004.

Emissions Targets. A look at international, national, and state emissions targets compiled by the Pew Center, August 2004.

Acid Oceans Spell Doom for Coral. Carolyn Fry, BBC News, August 29, 2004.

Bush U-Turn on Climate Change Wins Few Friends. Gary Younge, The Guardian, August 27, 2004.

The Planet Goes Haywire. John Vidal, The Guardian, August 27, 2004.

Global Warming. John Carey and Sarah R. Shapiro, Business Week, August 16, 2004.

Can Ranchers Slow Climate Change? Carbon credits can be created on rangelands at costs that are competitive with credits from cropland and forestry. Sara Campbell, Siân Mooney, John Hewlett, Dale Menkhaus, and George Vance, Rangelands, Vol. 26, No. 4, August 2004.

North Sea Burial for Greenhouse Gases. Juliette Jowit, The Guardian, August 1, 2004.

Sea Engulfing Alaskan Village. David Willis, BBC News, July 30, 2004.

By 2050 Warming to Doom Million Species, Study Says. John Roach, National Geographic News, July 24, 2004.

U.S. Power Giants Face Landmark Climate Lawsuit: Eight State Authorities Demand Cut in Emissions. Paul Brown, The Guardian, July 22, 2004.

Peat Bogs Harbour Carbon Time Bomb. Fred Pearce, NewScientist.com News Service, July 7, 2004.

Global Warming Has Cut Yields, Say Scientists. John Aglionby, The Guardian, July 1, 2004.

Chairman of Shell Says We Urgently Need to Capture Emissions of the Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide. Interview by David Adam, The Guardian, June 17, 2004.

Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Bill Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, May 2004.

Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector. USDA - Economic Research Service, April 2004.

A Synthesis of Potential Climate Change Impacts on the U.S. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, April 2004.

U.S. Market Consequences of Global Climate Change. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, April 2004.

Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit Record High. Shaoni Bhattacharya, New Scientist Online News (17:40) March 22, 2004.

Climate Change Activities in the U.S.: 2004 Update. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, March 2004.

Climate Policy Framework: Balancing Policy and Politics. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, March 2004.

Case of the Missing Carbon. National Geographic, Vol. 205, Issue 2, February 2004.

Putting Carbon Dioxide In Its Place: "Sequestering" Emissions May Be the Best Way to Fight Global Warming. John Carey, Business Week, October 20, 2003.

Iowa Farm Bureau Launching Pilot Carbon Credit Trading. Iowa Farm Bureau, October 20, 2003.

CASMGS conference at Kansas State University on measuring and monitoring carbon in agricultural soils, October 15-17, 2003, conference presentations and papers.

Issues in the Negotiating Process: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry under the Kyoto Protocol. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, updated September 4, 2003.

Secretary of Agriculture Announces New Incentives for Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Carbon Storage. USDA Release No. 0194.03,  June 6, 2003.

Demonstrating Geologic Carbon Sequestration.Geotimes, March 2003.

Experts Fault Bush's Proposal to Examine Climate Change. Only 162 words of article are now shown. Gives option to purchase the entire article. (New York Times, Andrew C. Revkin, February 26, 2003 -  registration is required to access New York Times website)

Is There Money for Montanans Who Capture Global-Warming Gases? University News for Montana State University, January 29, 2003.

Capital Cycles and the Timing of Climate Change Policy. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, October 2002.

Hog Wild for Pollution Trading. Fortune, September 9, 2002.

On Farms, a No-Till Tactic on Global Warming.Washington Post, August 26, 2002.

Climate Change Activities in the United States. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, June 2002.

Climate Action Report 2002. The United States of America's Third National Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, May 2002.

Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Disclosure: Key Elements of a Prospective U.S. Program. Pew Center, March 2002.

USDA Global Climate Change Policy: A New Approach. February 14, 2002.

Global Climate Change Policy Book. Presidential Policy on Climate Change, February 2002.

Dealing with Climate Change: Policies & Measures in IEA Member Countries. International Energy Agency, 2001 edition.

The U.S. Domestic Response to Climate Change: Key Elements of a Prospective Program. Pew Center, August 2001.

Carbon Sequestration and Trading Implications for Canadian Agriculture. Discussion paper coordinated by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada, 1999.