00:19:31 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: Hello everyone, chat is now enabled 🙂 00:21:31 Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza (she/her) The Climate Center: Yes, you will be able to access the recording early next week, which will include the slide presentations. 00:22:02 Daniel Tamm: Thanks Ryan and Jerilyn. Good Morning all. -The Rev. Daniel Tamm, Los Angeles. 00:24:48 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: Endorse the Climate-Safe California campaign as an individual and/or with your organization: https://theclimatecenter.org/support-a-climate-safe-california/ 00:29:58 Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza (she/her) The Climate Center: Please feel free to drop any questions you have in the Q&A, we will be sure to share with the facilitator, Doron, for discussion with panelists. Thank you! 00:30:28 Richard Burke: How to get copies of slides? 00:33:28 George Beeler: where is this wonderful farm example? 00:34:43 Woody Hastings: NRCS = Natural Resources Conservation Service 00:35:41 Claire Broome: where are cover crops in the Marin croplands? 00:35:47 George Beeler: WHat about urban forestry? 00:36:41 Jane Gray: May we please get a copy of the presentation? 00:36:58 Ann Schneider: In the future, could you put together this type of presentation but how we might utilize urban / suburban public lands to sequester carbon? The value of mulching in sequestration, how to get residents to do more to lay use compost and then mulch to reduce water consumption and keep urban trees healthy? Thanks, 00:40:02 Zeno Swijtink: Another input is water. How will climate change affect water availability for carbon farming? 00:40:29 Klaus Mager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-PdpT-2v4 00:48:06 Erika Morgan: What type of farmers make up the majority of the 75 on the wait list? 00:48:23 Seth Fearey: How do you build trust? 00:49:01 Andy Mutziger, SLO County APCD: The Upper Salinas-Las Tables RCD on the Central Coast is developing a Sustainable Land Initiative and is working w cBrain.com to shift from the slow Carbon Farm Plan process to a fully digital means of working with farmers and ranchers to rapidly identify and validate potential projects based on carbon impact, cost or additional benefits. Here is a presentation from a 5 part carbon sequestration and offset webinar series (2nd link). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P7lud0N1025q02Vu-8pea3HB0DCI9C1J/view 00:49:03 Erika Morgan: From 1-on-1 model, how do you see that service scaling up? 00:49:03 Andy Mutziger, SLO County APCD: https://sbco.mysocialpinpoint.com/carbon-sequestration/carbon-sequestration-page-3 00:51:20 Marty M.: What federal and state-level policy changes do we need to make these regional collaborations more effective? What's the best way(s) to incentivize producers to participate? 00:52:26 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: Bios for Senator Becker and the rest of our panelists are here: https://theclimatecenter.org/webinar-investing-in-farmers-for-nature-based-carbon-sequestration/ 00:52:32 Klaus Mager: The Soil and Water Conservation Districts have over 3,000 locations, present in virtually all counties throughout the country. This network should be able to scale up on short notice; first formed by Roosevelt to respond to the dust bowl crisis in the 1930’s. 00:54:23 Erika Morgan: What are the greatest regulatory barriers slowing the scaling of Carbon Farming? 00:57:10 Greg: How do the sequestration goals compare to California CO2 emissions? That is, I heard that globally, if industrialized agriculture was replaced by regenerative agriculture that pretty much all current CO2 emissions could be sequestered. 00:57:31 Ann Schneider: I attended a webinar on electrification and one of the speakers talked about how CCAs like Pen Clean Energy could help grow local solar by putting them on local farm land. This can also help farmers who operate often at a loss. Can we combine both carbon sequestration and local solar energy? 00:57:42 Erika Morgan: The farm examples seem to take decades to show results. What are the fastest steps a farmer could take to show the kind of results that make other farmers believers? 00:58:52 Michael Chiacos: CA statewide 2018 GHG emissions were 418.2 million metric tons - so 60 MMT is a nice fraction 01:01:32 Woody Hastings: It's important to note that the 60MMT is not counted toward state emission reduction goals, which is good. This is sequestration, needed because emission reduction alone will n ote get us where we need to be. 01:01:55 Woody Hastings: *not* 01:02:36 Felicia Marcus: Excellent point. Hi Woody! 01:03:28 Woody Hastings: Hi Felicia!🙂 01:04:33 Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza (she/her) The Climate Center: Please feel free to drop your questions here or in the Q&A section! Thanks all. 01:07:50 Zeno Swijtink: Is California’s water policy aligned with carbon sequestration? 01:09:20 Catherine Dodd RN she/her: Do you use pesticides when you grow your cover crops? 01:09:48 Doug Bender: This is great. Question for Bruce--have you considered biochar with respect to wheat straw? 01:11:05 Sara Greenwald: Bruce Rominger works all spare vegetation back into the soil, which sounds great. I've also been hearing about the importance of soil structure, microorganisms etc that are disrupted by tillage, and wonder how the two considerations can be balanced. 01:11:05 Andy Mutziger, SLO County APCD: The US-LT Sustainable Land Initiative has identified about 20 projects over 4 or 5 land owners, so they can bundle projects and look for funding. Finding the funding is a current barrier. As an Air District, we are looking to identify offsite mitigation funding that can come from land use projects that need CEQA GHG reductions. Hoping to AB 2649 can bring steady funds. In the mean time, can you please speak to other potential funding sources the RCD may not be aware of? 01:13:15 Erika Morgan: Could Albert please explain again abiout selling the methane-generated kWhs? 01:14:35 Bob Fabian: Is there enough red seaweed to expand through out CA? the US? 01:14:49 Andy Mutziger, SLO County APCD: Albert, are you also considering looking at biochar addition to feed to assess the methane reduction potential? 01:16:12 Claire Broome: controlled field trials by Horvath et al at UC Davis show that certified organic farming sequesters 1.5 to 5 times more carbon than no till or covercropping. The CARB scoping plan currently has a target of 20% cropland in organic acreage by 2045. EJ and enviro coalition asking for 30% organic by 2030. Where is organic farming in Climate Center natural sequestration efforts? 01:17:54 George Beeler: Albert, on the Pt. Reyes Park land is grazing better on the land than reverting the land back to wild native grasses and trees? 01:18:03 Paula Fogarty: Will AB 2649 directly supply funding to the helpful programs that are over-subscribed and under-funded? 01:20:04 George Beeler: What about stormwater infiltration wales in hedgerows? 01:21:32 Klaus Mager: there are some interesting models emerging to engage carbon markets: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FX08PtRCw4cRi7a-FlHvOHAZwgXo9bZN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109981376331507852893&rtpof=true&sd=true 01:26:21 Wendell Gilgert (He/Him): An increase of 1% organic matter in the soil will result in holding between 16 and 24K gallons of water per acre. Translated: at the 16K /acre level increase, you would hold an additional acre foot (~325,000 gals) every 23 acres of land. 01:27:15 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: For folks asking if the slides and recording will be made available, the answer is yes! We will email that out early next week. 01:27:31 Dave Shukla: glad to see the Carbon Cycle Institute is different from the Carbon Capture Coalition, and the potential for natural GHG sequestration. https://carboncapturecoalition.org/inflation-reduction-act- re: Inflation Reduction Act, some links: https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/summary_of_the_energy_security_and_climate_change_investments_in_the_inflation_reduction_act_of_2022.pdf Poison Pill: every solar and wind project on fed lands that requires a right-of-way is conditioned on leasing 60 mil acres of offshore drilling & 2 mil acres of onshore drilling x 10 years. Horrific. Sec. 50265: https://twitter.com/ajeansu/status/1552495656220098561/photo/1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-28/manchin-deal-mandates-oil-and-gas-lease-sales-in-gulf-and-alaska https://apnews.com/article/inflation-biden-health-climate-and-environment-7a267eeea21af0f44318e6b9d888c36c https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/leaked-us-leaked-power-companies-spending-profits-stop-clean-energy 01:27:59 Klaus Mager: landowners will have to make regenerative / soil health practices part of the tenant agreement, in particular for short term leases. 01:32:57 Claire Broome: urban forestry represents a substantial scaleable carbon sequestration possibility in CARB scoping plan--however they claim it is too expensive. Comments? 01:34:16 Chlele Gummer: what about wineries. 01:37:35 Andy Mutziger, SLO County APCD: Albert spoke about selling GHG reductions from their sustainable dairy practices. Can the speakers weigh in on how SB 27's N&WL registry development requirement of the Natural Resources Agency may play into generating needed offsets and a new income stream for growers? 01:40:40 Jan Cecil: We are being decimated by the logging industry in California. They are using fire prevention as an excuse to log trees that would not be burned. Clearcutting is obviously incredibly costly for current forest and pre vents any future forest growth. 01:40:51 Ann Schneider: Just a tiny comment on equity. There is of course equity based on peoples of color and socio economics. But there is also equity across cities. A term being used at least in San Mateo County is "geographical equity" which means some cities / suburbs are better off than others. From the different financial formulas for giving federal block grant money - given directly to cities larger than 50, 000 vs small cities that do not get this money and have to compete for grants and oftern do not get those grants because size of staff equate to ability to write good grant applications and matching fund issues. To just the fact that big cities get more money per capita than medium cities than small cities (who also then much compete for these funds). So if suburbs are trying do nature based sequestration work, they are disadvantaged to larger cities or those that can claim to be "priority equity communities" and sometimes, some cities that can claim to be PECs are in strong financial positions. 01:44:51 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: Take action to support AB 2649, the Natural Carbon Sequestration and Resilience Act: https://theclimatecenter.org/natural-carbon-sequestration-and-resilience-act-ab2649/ 01:45:14 Ryan Schleeter (he/him), The Climate Center: Endorse the Climate-Safe California campaign: https://theclimatecenter.org/support-a-climate-safe-california/ 01:46:15 Catherine Dodd RN she/her: organic farming also protects the farmworkers and their communities! 01:46:39 Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza (she/her) The Climate Center: Take action to support AB 2649, the Natural Carbon Sequestration and Resilience Act: https://theclimatecenter.org/natural-carbon-sequestration-and-resilience-act-ab2649/ 01:46:39 Valerie Ventre-Hutton (she/her): + Catherine Dodd 01:46:50 John Knox: Thank you so much Doron, Bruce, Albert, Emilie, Ryan, Baani, Jonathan, and Patricia for your time educating us about these critical issues. Much appreciated! 01:47:03 Claire Broome: @Catherine Dodd--thank you for reminding us of farmworker benefits and pesticide issues 01:47:11 Klaus Mager: Thank you! 01:47:18 Sierra Minchaca: Incredibly informative, thank you so much everyone! 01:47:30 George Beeler: Please send us a copy of the chat