Brett KenCairn

Project Drawdown is a world-class research organization that reviews, analyses, and identifies the most viable global climate solutions, and shares these findings with the world. We partner with communities, policy-makers, non-profits, businesses, investors, and philanthropists to identify and deploy science-based, effective climate solutions—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

The purpose of this report is to highlight some of the themes of recent state policy initiatives related to soil health, and to identify specific examples of these proposals. Some have been enacted, some have been proposed, and others are still being contemplated.

To help prepare for potential opportunities to advance healthy soils policy at the federal level in 2021, and at the state level on an ongoing basis, Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions solicited input on policy solutions from a few dozen experts in the areas of agricultural policy and healthy soils. Our focus for this assessment was somewhat narrow – healthy soils and soil carbon sequestration, rather than a full ecological and socioeconomic assessment of soils, farming, and rural development policies.

This report addresses greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in land-based ecosystems, land use, and sustainable land management in relation to climate change adaptation and mitigation, desertification, land degradation, and food security. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

This U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (US Community Protocol) is designed to inspire and guide U.S. local governments to account for and report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the communities they represent.