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Workshop #5: Meeting the Challenges of a Rapidly Changing Climate Policy Environment, April 6-9, 2009

Welcome and Workshop Overview

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Welcome and Workshop Overview Authors: Adam Daigneault Microsoft PowerPoint     223 KB 1 min. 17 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Keynote Address

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Climate Stabilization, Agriculture and Land Use Authors: Jae Edmonds Microsoft PowerPoint     3174 KB 18 min. 21 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 1.1: Current Energy and Climate Policy Landscape: Looking Back at Recent Climate Policy

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Recent Efforts in US Climate Policy: Implications for Forestry and Agriculture Authors: Lydia Olander Microsoft PowerPoint     3866 KB 22 min. 22 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Recent Efforts in Canadian Climate Policy Authors: Karen Haugen-Kozyra Microsoft PowerPoint     4389 KB 25 min. 23 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 1.2: Current Energy and Climate Policy Landscape: Looking Ahead

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Looking Ahead at Climate Policy: The Role of Forestry and Agriculture Authors: Reid Harvey Microsoft PowerPoint     2334 KB 13 min. 30 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Agri-Environmental Policy Landscape in Canada Authors: Alexandre Lefebvre Microsoft PowerPoint     305 KB 1 min. 45 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Using Models to Inform Climate Change Policy: Current Priorities Authors: Jan Lewandrowski Microsoft PowerPoint     2871 KB 16 min. 36 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Climate and Energy Policy: The Role of Forests Authors: Rob Doudrick Microsoft PowerPoint     3844 KB 22 min. 14 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 1 Discussant

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Climate Change and Energy Policy Landscape: Looking Ahead: Some Discussion Points Authors: Bruce McCarl Microsoft PowerPoint     1687 KB 9 min. 45 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 2.1: Overview of the Key Uncertainties

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Soil Carbon Sequestration: Will it Happen? Will We Know It? Authors: Cesar Izaurralde, Wilfred Post, and Julie Jastrow Microsoft PowerPoint     18898 KB 109 min. 21 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

US Forests and Carbon Storage Authors: Michael Ryan Microsoft PowerPoint     6119 KB 35 min. 24 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 2.2: Data and Methods for Offset Policy Implementation and Evaluation

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Data and Methods for Offset Policy Implementation and Evaluation Authors: Timothy Pearson Microsoft PowerPoint     2903 KB 16 min. 47 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Leakage Accounting in Forestry and Agriculture Authors: Gordon Smith Microsoft PowerPoint     340 KB 1 min. 57 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Prospects for Using Forest Inventory and Analysis and Related Data for Monitoring Forest Carbon Offsets Authors: Linda Heath Microsoft PowerPoint     3360 KB 19 min. 26 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

How Canada is Dealing with Key Issues in Agriculture and Forestry in a Federal Offsets System: Guidelines for Protocols Authors: Ian Campbell Microsoft PowerPoint     225 KB 1 min. 18 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 2.2 Discussant

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Discussion: Data and Methods for Offset Policy Implementation and Evaluation Authors: Erich Livengood Microsoft PowerPoint     234 KB 1 min. 21 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 2.3: Uncertainty in C and N Cycles and Implications for Mitigation Options

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Impact of Uncertainty of Land Management Practices on Carbon Sequestration Authors: Brian McConkey Microsoft PowerPoint     2148 KB 12 min. 25 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Reducing Uncertainty in the U.S. Soil Organic C and N2O Inventories with a Process-Based Model Authors: Stephen Ogle Unknown     16107 KB 93 min. 12 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Carbon Storage in Wood Products: Credits for Projects, Uncertainty, and Bias Authors: Ken Skog Microsoft PowerPoint     1166 KB 6 min. 44 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Scientific Uncertainty About Bioenergy from a Forestry Perspective Authors: Peter Ince Microsoft PowerPoint     8183 KB 47 min. 21 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 3: Modeling Competition for Land

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Overview of Economic Methods to Simulate Land Competition Authors: Ron Sands and Michael Brady Microsoft PowerPoint     955 KB 5 min. 31 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Modeling the Competition for Land Owing to Food, Fuel, Climate Policy and Climate Change Authors: Alla Golub and Thomas Hertel Microsoft PowerPoint     2949 KB 17 min. 3 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Global Forestry and Agriculture Land Use Model Authors: Suk-Won Choi, Brent Sohngen, and Steven Rose Microsoft PowerPoint     191 KB 1 min. 6 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Potential for Expansion of the Agricultural Land Base in Canada Authors: Ted Huffman and Melodie Green Microsoft PowerPoint     10736 KB 62 min. 7 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Preliminary AAFC Work on Modeling Future Land Use Change in Canada Authors: Stephen Smith Microsoft PowerPoint     921 KB 5 min. 19 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Modelling Land Use Change in Canada with an Option Value Framework: An Agriculture-Forestry Example from Alberta Authors: Denys Yemshanov, Geoff McCarney, Marty Luckert, Jim Unterschultz, and Dan McKenney Adobe Acrobat     734 KB 4 min. 14 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Land Use Change in Agriculture: Yield Growth as a Potential Driver Authors: Scott Malcolm Microsoft PowerPoint     1298 KB 7 min. 30 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

U.S. LUC Analyses in RPA National Assessments and Interfaces with the Forest and Agriculture Sector Optimization Model-Green House Gases (FASOMGHG)—Linkages Across the Land Base Authors: Ralph Alig Microsoft PowerPoint     15189 KB 87 min. 53 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Brazil Regional Model Authors: Bruce Babcock Microsoft PowerPoint     10339 KB 59 min. 49 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Comparing Policy Mechanisms for Reducing Deforestation:Results from the Open Source Impacts of REDD Incentives Spreadsheet (OSIRIS) Authors: Ruben Lubowski, Jonah Busch, Fred Boltz, Aaron Bruner, Dick Rice, Andrea Cattaneo, Bernardo Strassburg, and Ralph Ashton Microsoft PowerPoint     3496 KB 20 min. 13 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 3 Discussant

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Modeling Competition for Land: Some Discussion Points Authors: Bruce McCarl Microsoft PowerPoint     579 KB 3 min. 20 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 4: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Planning—Moving Beyond Gradual & Average Change

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Agriculture and Forestry Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Planning – Moving Beyond Gradual and Average Change Authors: Steven Rose Microsoft PowerPoint     4382 KB 25 min. 21 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 4.1: Characterizing Historic Patterns and Trends and the Future Threat or Opportunity

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Climate Scenarios into Policy Research:Downscaling from GCMs to Regional Scale Authors: Budong Qian and Samuel Gameda Microsoft PowerPoint     1554 KB 8 min. 59 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Continent-wide Climate Modeling: Opportunities for More Integrated Modeling Authors: Dan McKenney and Denys Yemshanov Adobe Acrobat     1892 KB 10 min. 56 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Forests Uncertainties, Data, Research Needs in Projecting the Effects of Climate Change and Determining Adaptation Responses Authors: Linda Joyce Microsoft PowerPoint     15374 KB 88 min. 58 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Managing Agro-ecosystems under Global Environmental Change: Developing Strategies to Meet Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change Authors: Dennis Ojima Microsoft PowerPoint     7582 KB 43 min. 52 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Session 4.2: Decision-Making and Managing Risk

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Crop Insurance and Mitigation of Impacts from Climate Variability Authors: Robert Beach Microsoft PowerPoint     12030 KB 69 min. 37 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps

Analysis of Climate Change on Prairie Agriculture in Canada Authors: Robert MacGregor, Aining Zhang, and Timothy Colwill Microsoft PowerPoint     4858 KB 28 min. 6 sec. @ 28.8 Kbps