Overview
The overall aim of this project is to help increase contributions to the North America Climate Mitigation 2030 Goals and beyond. This tool can be used to help guide initial steps around pursuing NCS pathways across the SUSD + MD. Please note, this is similar to a carbon prefeasibility assessment and requires more localized assessments before implementation.
Home page
On the home page, you can input the specific pathway you are most interested in “Please indicate which Natural Climate Solution you are interested in pursuing.” prompt box. Once you input the NCS pathway of interest, it will guide you to the appropriate tab for use. On the home page, you will also find more information around the different tabs and how the traffic light system works.
2030 Goals
On this page, please follow the below steps:
- Enter the NCS pathway you are interested in and
Click “Get regional heatmap”. A regional heatmap will
output a broad perspective on potential for that pathway. This prompt
will also output more information around the methodologies to follow
below the final question on the page.
- Select the state or list of states your interested in exploring. After you select a state, a list of counties will automatically adjust to that state list in the following question.
- Select the counties you are interested in exploring if you are looking at the Improved Forest Management pathway, or you can select “All counties” if you want statewide estimates. If you are exploring Peat Restoration, you can select “All counties” since most peat and pocosin opportunies span county boundaries.
- Click “Go!”. Please only click the “Go!” button once. You’ll see an output of estimated gains across your selected region of interest. You can download a .csv file of those estimates and/or a png file of the map.
Please contact Cat Chamberlain if you recieve an error message.
What is the code doing?
Please reference the SUSD + MD Final Report (TNC Southern US Division (SUSD) + Maryland (MD) Carbon Assessment) for information on methods used to estimate carbon gains across each NCS pathway.
What is being outputted?
Once you click “Go!”, you will see an interatice map that will provide more localized information. You can also download a .csv file if you click the “Download estimated carbon gains” below the figure.
See an example below for outputs
Post 2030 Goals
On this page, please follow the below steps:
- Enter the NCS pathway you are interested in and
Click “Get regional heatmap”. A regional heatmap will
output a broad perspective on potential for that pathway. This prompt
will also output more information around the methodologies to follow
below the final question on the page.
- Select the state or list of states your interested in exploring. After you select a state, a list of counties will automatically adjust to that state list in the following question.
- Select the counties you are interested in exploring or you can select “All counties” if you want statewide estimates.
- Click “Go!”. Please only click the “Go!” button once. You’ll see an output of estimated gains across your selected region of interest. You can download a .csv file of those estimates and/or a png file of the map.
Please contact Cat Chamberlain if you receive an error message.
What is the code doing?
Please reference the SUSD + MD Final Report (TNC Southern US Division (SUSD) + Maryland (MD) Carbon Assessment) for information on methods used to estimate carbon gains across each NCS pathway.
What is being outputted?
Once you click “Go!”, you will see an interactive map that will provide more localized information. You can also download a .csv file if you click the “Download estimated carbon gains” below the figure.
See an example below for outputs
Developing Pathways
On this page, please follow the below steps:
- Enter the NCS pathway you are interested in and
Click “Get regional heatmap”. A regional heatmap will
output a broad perspective on potential for that pathway. This prompt
will also output more information around the methodologies to follow
below the final question on the page.
- Select the state or list of states your interested in exploring. After you select a state, a list of counties will automatically adjust to that state list in the following question.
- Select the counties you are interested in exploring or you can select “All counties” if you want statewide estimates.
- Click “Go!”. Please only click the “Go!” button once. You’ll see an output of estimated gains across your selected region of interest. You can download a .csv file of those estimates and/or a png file of the map.
Please contact Cat Chamberlain if you recieve an error message.
What is the code doing?
Please reference the SUSD + MD Final Report (TNC Southern US Division (SUSD) + Maryland (MD) Carbon Assessment) for information on methods used to estimate carbon gains across each NCS pathway.
What is being outputted?
Once you click “Go!”, you will see an interatice map that will provide more localized information. You can also download a .csv file if you click the “Download estimated carbon gains” below the figure. Please note, for Avoided Forest Conversion and Biochar, estimates are ranked by potential rather than actual carbon gains.
See an example below for outputs
Acknowledgements
This tool was a major collaborative effort with Trisha Johnson (TNC) and Scott Settelmyer (TerraCarbon) leading the overall assessment. David Shoch and Ben Rifkin from TerraCarbon led the analyses for the Improved Forest Management, Becky Dickson, Apple Gould, Emily Heltzel and André de Oliveira all from TerraCarbon led the analyses for all Peat related pathways. Chuck Peoples acted as an advisor for the entire project, especially with peat related assessments. John Gunn, Mila Zapukhliak, Margaret Fields, Eric Sodderholm, and Sarah Hecocks all contributed to various aspects of the project.