Natural Climate Solutions Initiative releases interim report
The University of Maine Natural Climate Solutions Initiative, led by Adam Daigneault, has released an interim report that explores approaches for mitigating the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through management in forestry and agriculture, as reported by UMaine News.
Natural climate solutions are conservation, restoration and improved land management actions that increase carbon storage or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. The report focuses on using Maine’s farms and working forests to optimize these effects.
Adam is E.L. Giddings Assistant Professor of Forest, Conservation, and Recreation Policy and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow. Funding for the initiative has been provided by the Mitchell Center as well as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Maine Farmland Trust, with administrative support from the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests. Several UMaine colleagues worked with Adam on the initiative.
See the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests website to view the report, fact sheets and additional resources.