{"id":3987,"date":"2013-07-22T15:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calcanstaging.kinsta.cloud\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2020-02-12T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:13:00","slug":"ag-solutions-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calclimateag.org\/es\/ag-solutions-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Solutions for Climate Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the elements of AB 32, California’s 2006 landmark climate change legislation, was to require the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to produce a “Scoping Plan” that outlines ways to achieve the greenhouse gas reduction goal of AB 32 \u2014 to reduce GHGs to 1990 levels by 2020. CARB is the agency charged with implementing AB 32, and they are required to update the Scoping Plan<\/a> every five years.<\/p>\n

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A new Scoping Plan is due in 2013, and CARB plans to release a draft in the fall and invite public input. The draft will include recommendations for meeting the 2020 goal and also high level ideas about reaching a more ambitious GHG reduction goal by 2050. It will include six\u00a0topics areas for the post-2020 element: 1) transportation, fuels, and infrastructure; 2) energy generation, transmission, and efficiency; 3) waste; 4) water;\u00a05) agriculture; and 6) natural resources.<\/p>\n

Concurrently, discussion at CARB, in the legislature and among stakeholder groups such as CalCAN has begun on how to invest funds raised by the cap-and-trade program. Though Governor Brown recently prevailed<\/a> in his opinion (in the face of significant opposition)\u00a0that the funds should be loaned to the General Fund\u00a0for the 2013\/14 budget cycle, the discussion will continue starting in January 2014 for the next fiscal year. The Scoping Plan will be finalized by then and will have influence on how the cap-and-trade investment fund is allocated.<\/p>\n

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Intensive grazing methods, such as those used at Markegard Family Grass-Fed, may build soil organic matter and sequester carbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CalCAN submitted to CARB a set of recommendations for contributions that agriculture can make to help achieve California’s GHG reduction target (available aqu\u00ed<\/a>). In summary, we recommend the following for inclusion in the Scoping Plan:<\/p>\n