Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program: Implementation and Next Steps: Progress Report

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Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program: Implementation and Next Steps: Progress Report

2009-02-01
By John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Natural and Human Environment

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John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Natural and Human Environment
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New Mexico ; United States
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United States. Department of Transportation
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In July 2008, the FHWA’s Office of Natural and Human Environment (HEPN) selected the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) to participate in a carbon sequestration pilot program (CSPP). Through the CSPP, FHWA intends explore the feasibility of state DOTs reducing and sequestering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in vegetation within highway rights-of-way (ROW). Under the pilot program, NMDOT is undertaking a four-year, $2 million research project to quantify the amount of atmospheric carbon that grasslands along highway ROW can sequester. The protocol that will result should be applicable to DOTs nationwide, an important consideration since part of the pilot program’s success centers on the DOT’s ability to measure then divest the carbon captured. Options for divestiture are (1) selling carbon credits on an appropriate GHG market or registry for revenue, (2) using carbon credits to offset the DOT’s emissions, or (3) using the credits toward meeting statewide objectives. NMDOT’s initial experience with this ground-breaking effort has revealed a number of lessons useful to other DOTs and FHWA Division Offices in evaluating the viability of carbon sequestration practices in lands they control.
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