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Terrestrial Carbon Management and Electric Utilities

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In the near future regulations could be imposed affecting emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Carbon offsets should be a component of any such regime. This paper addresses: 1) international and domestic policy actions related to C offset forestry, including the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change and the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 1992; 2) forestry-related efforts sponsored by U.S. electric utilities to sequester and store C, protect and manage forests, and conserve energy in urban environments; 3) considerations for implementing such efforts; and 4) electric utility industry research and development on advanced methods to use biomass as fuel.

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  1. Edison Electric Institute, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington D.C., 20004, USA

    John D. Kinsman

  2. Trexler & Associates, 1131 SE River Forest Road, Oak Grove, OR, 97267, USA

    Mark C. Trexler

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Kinsman, J.D., Trexler, M.C. (1993). Terrestrial Carbon Management and Electric Utilities. In: Wisniewski, J., Sampson, R.N. (eds) Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2 . Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1982-5_37

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