AFTA’s winter conference was offered December 6th-9th, 2020, in conjunction with the Savanna Institute’s Perennial Farm Gathering (Figure 1, from 2019), an annual event that brings together agroforestry researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts from throughout the Midwest. This year’s event was held entirely online and sought to make connections among agroforestry researchers and practitioners through engaging, participatory presentations and other community-building events.
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Written by Jacob Grace, Savanna Institute
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Natural climate solutions are conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices that increase carbon storage or avoid greenhouse gas emissions in forests, agriculture, wetlands, grasslands, and urban areas. As concerns about the current and future impacts of climate change mount, natural climate solutions are of great interest as a climate mitigation strategy. A 2017 study reported that natural climate solutions have the potential to provide up to 37 percent of the emissions reductions and carbon sequestration needed to keep global temperature increase under 2 degrees Celsius by 2030 (Griscom et al. 2017). Large-scale tree planting programs, in particular, have been the focus of many natural climate solutions initiatives and have garnered international interest and financial support. Tree planting is prominent in several federal policy proposals in the United States, including the Trillion Trees Act (2020), the Biden Climate Plan (2020), proposed COVID-19 economic stimulus packages, as well as in the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis and the Climate Change Reports from the House Select Committee.
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Written by Lily Colburn, Environmental Management, Yale School of the Environment; Luca Guadagno, Environmental Science, Yale School of the Environment; Kristen Jovanelly, Forestry, Yale School of the Environment
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