PFT made comments at a public forum for California Water’s Future held by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in Redding, CA on August 6, 2019, and submitted detailed comments on September 1, 2019. Find out more.
Dr. Andrea Tuttle, former director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, responds to recent claims about California’s rules for carbon accounting of forest offsets. California is renowned for its leading role in fighting climate change. Along with electricity and transportation, forests are—and must be—a big part of the solution. While the state is stepping up its game to capture forest benefits through incentives, grants, and new voluntary approaches, forest offsets continue to have an important role.
PFT President Laurie A. Wayburn on finding common ground: We can find it on the land that binds us together and to future generations.
The Black Butte Working Forest just outside Weed, California exemplifies how the state is using California Climate Investments to create a more carbon-rich and climate-resilient landscape—a win-win for all involved.
As the IPCC reported in 2018, we have an all-too-brief twelve-year window to address climate change. In the continuing absence of federal action, states are leading the way toward a healthy climate future.
Forest landowners, climate activists aged 8 to 80, forest stakeholders from every perspective, and policy leaders from California and Oregon joined us for Forest Fete on April 10th at the City Club of San Francisco. Read more about the event.
