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Clean Fuel Standard: Agriculture and Forestry Carbon Capture & Sequestration Advisory Panel (AF-CCSAP)

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The Washington Clean Fuel Standard
By requiring fuel suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, the Clean Fuel Standard will cut statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 4.3 million metric tons a year by 2038, and will stimulate economic development in low carbon fuel production.

Purpose and Objectives 
The Clean Fuel Standard: Agriculture and Forestland Carbon Capture & Sequestration Advisory Panel (AF-CCSAP) process will provide members meaningful opportunities to share their technical and policy expertise to inform and support the work of Ecology’s Clean Fuel Standard program. 

This panel will provide a collaborative forum for members to offer individual and collective input and insight on how to best incentivize and allocate credits for the sequestration of greenhouse gases relating to transportation fuel through activities on agricultural and forestlands in Washington, including recommendations for:

• How best to account for, incentivize, and award Clean Fuel Standard credits for carbon sequestration on agricultural and forest lands, with a focus on the production, distribution, and sale of transportation fuels.
• Quantifying the carbon sequestration impact of current agricultural and forestry production and conservation practices, and estimating the potential due to future practices.
• Identifying agricultural and forest land practices that have measurable greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits. 
• Identifying and developing standards for optimizing/maximizing carbon sequestration for practices on agricultural and forestlands. 
• Developing mechanisms for quantifying and allocating credits to incentivize carbon sequestration on agricultural and forestlands.
• Ecology’s biennial review of innovative technologies and pathways that reduce GHG emissions and increase credit generation opportunities on agricultural and forestlands, including advising on rules or guidance needed to maintain a stable credit market. 

You can read the charter here.

Members

• Aaron Peterson, Washington Department of Commerce
• Amanda Parrish, The Lands Council
• Amy Trainer, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
• Cherie Kearney, Columbia Land Trust
• Chris Anderson, Renewable Energy Group
• Chris Covert-Bowlds, Dr., Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Csenka Favorini-Csorba, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Dani Gelardi, Washington State Department of Agriculture
• Dryw Jones, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Harrison Pettit, Pacific Ag Biofuel
• Jim Amonette, Washington State University & Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• John Henrikson, Wild Thyme Tree Farm
• Julius Pasay, The Climate Trust
• Justin Allegro, The Nature Conservancy
• Karen Sowers, Pacific Northwest Canola Association
• Max DuBuisson, Indigo Agriculture
• Mary Catherine McAleer, Weyerhaeuser
• Paul Buckland, Inland Empire Paper Company

Meetings

May 19, 2022

Facilitated by Ross Strategic

• Agenda
• Presentation
• Meeting recording 
• Meeting summary 

June 28, 2022

Facilitated by Ross Strategic

•  Agenda
• Presentation
• Meeting Recording
• Meeting Summary
  

August 31, 2022

• Agenda
• Presentation
• Meeting Recording
• Meeting Summary

October 27, 2022

• Agenda
• Presentation by Jim Amonette, Washington State University & Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Meeting Recording
• Meeting Summary

February 15, 2023

• Agenda 
• Presentation by Dominic Woolf, Cornell University
• Meeting Recording
• Meeting Summary - coming soon