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| Coal-Seq Project | In October 2000, a three-year government-industry project known as the Coal-Seq project was launched in the U.S. The project is studying the feasibility of CO2 sequestration in deep, unmineable coalseams using enhanced coalbed recovery technology. The Coal-Seq project is specifically focused on understanding the results of actual field experiments via reservoir modeling, with laboratory studies filling a supporting, not primary, role. | Advanced Resources International | www .coal-seq .com/ |
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| Australia Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) | Australia's Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) plays a major role in developing and promoting tree plantations on farmland in Western Australia. Increasing areas of plantation is one way of increasing carbon sinks and reducing the net effect of emissions from industry and energy production. CALM manages more than 20 million hectares of land in Western Australia, land that acts as a significant reservoir of carbon. To encourage afforestation on the massive scale required, CALM has developed systems that are profitable in their own right. | Australia Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) | www .naturebase .net/ |
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| Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) | In July 2003, the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) was launched. CO2CRC researches the logistic, technical, financial and environmental issues of storing industrial carbon dioxide emissions in deep geological formations. The CRC researches the capture and separation of carbon dioxide from industrial systems as well as geological storage. | Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) | www.co2crc .com.au/ |
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| Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change | The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change welcomes you to its web site. The Center was incorporated in 1998 as a non-profit dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on climate and the biosphere. The web site is frequently updated with new issues of "CO2 Science Magazine" which contains editorials and reviews of five different peer-reviewed scientific journal articles relating to various aspects of the global change debate. Included in the site are many articles and references to terrestrial carbon sequestration. | Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change | www .co2science .org/ |
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| DOE Center for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems CSiTE) | DOE’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research established CSiTE as a research consortium (including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory) to perform fundamental research to enhance carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems. Research is developing: (1) Scientific understanding of carbon capture and sequestration mechanisms in terrestrial ecosystems across multiple scales from the molecular to the landscape, (2) Conceptual and simulation models for extrapolation of process understanding across spatial and temporal scales, (3) Estimates of carbon sequestration potential, and (4) Assessments of environmental impacts and economic implications of carbon sequestration | CSiTE (including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory) | csite.esd .ornl.gov/ |
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| CTRADE.org | C TRADE is an international developer of sustainable renewable energy using solar/wind and other hybrid clean technologies for rural electrification in developing countries. C TRADE has extensive experience worldwide in the areas of sustainable forestry management techniques that produce carbon credits, employing and training poor communities to grow trees for carbon sequestration, or use sericulture techniques for growing cash crops intermixed with trees for buffer zone management. C TRADE also provides design, monitoring, verification and third party certification services for marketable carbon emission offsets that can be potentially traded like a commodity or banked for future sale or trade pursuant to CDM policies and procedures developed under the Kyoto Protocol. | CTRADE.org | www.ctrade .org/ |
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| EO Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | The Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group at the EO Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has as its main area of interest the ocean's carbon cycle. As geochemists, they are interested on it's impact on the geochemical cycles of the 50 or so elements which exhibit nonconservative behavior in sea water. As earth scientists, they are concerned with evaluating the feasibility, effectiveness and environmental consequences of ocean carbon sequestration. | EO Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | www-ocean .lbl.gov/ |
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| USDA Forest Service Global Change Research Program | The Forest Service Global Change Research Program (FSGCRP) focuses research on four scientific program elements and two crosscutting activities. Scientific program elements include: (1) atmosphere/biosphere gas and energy exchange, (2) ecosystem dynamics, (3) disturbance ecology, and (4) human activities and natural resource interactions. Crosscutting activities include assessment and modeling, and data quality assessment. | Forest Service Global Change Research Program | www.fs .fed.us/ |
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| CO2 Capture Project | The CO2 Capture Project is an international effort funded by seven of the world's leading energy companies. The project seeks to develop new technologies to reduce the cost of capturing CO2 from combustion sources and safely store it underground. Three capture technologies and four geologic storage mechanisms are being emphasized. | Government & Private Sector consortium | www .co2captureproject .org/ |
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| IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) | IEA GHG is an international collaboration which aims to (1) evaluate technologies for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; (2) disseminate the results of these studies; and (3) identify targets for research, development and demonstration and promote the appropriate work. The IEA GHG R&D Programme operates under an Implementing Agreement provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA); the Programme started in November 1991 and the fourth phase began in November 2000. Its main activities concern methods of reducing GHG emissions, particularly CO2 from fossil fuels. Much attention has been given to the option of capture and storage or utilisation of CO2. | IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme | www.ieagreen .org.uk/ |
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| IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) CO2 Sequestration Information Database | The IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) is an international collaboration which aims to evaluate technologies for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; disseminate the results of these studies; and identify targets for research, development and demonstration and promote the appropriate work. The aim of this site is to provide a central source of information on CO2 Capture and Storage Research, Development and Demonstration (R, D & D); promote awareness of the extent of R, D & D that is now underway; and facilitate co-operation between projects. Its R&D Project Database provides a central source of information on CO2 capture and storage practical research, development and demonstration around the world. It can be searched by keyword, project type or by region. | IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme | www .co2captureandstorage .info/ (formerly, www .co2sequestration .info) |
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| NatCarb: A National Look at Carbon Sequestration | NATCARB is a project to explore geological sequestration of carbon through linking geological and emission databases from several regional centers into a single interactive mapping system.NATCARB is an extension of MIDCARB, a project that linked databases from 5 state geological surveys in the Midwest. NATCARB allows each partner to retain ownership and control of their own data, while allowing visitors to explore data across partner boundaries. NATCARB links to the EPA Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD) and EGRID databases. | Kansas Geological Survey | www .natcarb .org/ |
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| Climate and Carbon Cycle Modeling Group - Lawrence Livermore National Lab | The Climate and Carbon Cycle Modeling Group (CCCM) is part of the Atmospheric Science Division at LLNL. The Group engages in research designed to help predict the consequences, and help minimize the adverse impacts, of human activities on Earth's climate system. Furthermore, we are a source of information and expertise on the climate system and carbon cycle. The Group performs simulations using models of the atmosphere, land surface, and oceans, and is home for the simulation capability for the DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration (DOCS). | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | en-env .llnl.gov |
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| MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment: Carbon Management and Sequestration Program (CMSP) | The Carbon Management and Sequestration Program (CMSP) looks at carbon management activities including technology development, assessment, and education and outreach. Attention is given to all aspects of the problem, including technological, economic, environmental, and social. The program's research initiatives include studies of the economics of capture and sequestration, integrated assessment studies, research on a novel separation process, research on ocean carbon sequestration, and assessment of hydrogen storage materials. A major new component of the program is the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, an industrial consortium. | MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Enviornment | lfee.mit.edu/ | Archives |
| MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment: Carbon Sequestration Initiative (CSI) | The MIT Energy Laboratory joined forces in July 2000 with six companies from the oil and gas, electric power, and automotive sectors to launch a new industrial consortium to support research on carbon sequestration. The Carbon Sequestration Initiative (CSI) will fund MIT scientists and engineers to perform objective assessments of carbon sequestration technologies and will provide seed grants for new research ideas. The carbon sequestration strategy involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions at their source and then using or storing the carbon dioxide to prevent its buildup in the atmosphere. | MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Enviornment | sequestration .mit.edu/ |
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| Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI): Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases | The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
(MBARI) is to achieve and maintain a position as a world center for advanced
research and education in ocean science and technology. MBARI scientists'
work in the area of Ocean Chemistry of Greenhouse Gases includes deep-sea experiments in release of liquid carbon dioxide. |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) | www.mbari .org/ |
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| NETL Pubs: 1st Nat. Conference on Carbon Seq. (2001) | NETL Publications: 2001 Conference Proceedings of the First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration. The abstracts/papers listed below are in Portable Document Format (PDF). | National Energy Technology Laboratory | www.netl .doe.gov/ |
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| NOAA CO2 Group Home Page | The CO2 Group is a part of the Ocean Chemistry Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Group's goal is to assess the ocean's role in controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) across the air-sea interface and its eventual penetration into the water masses of the deep ocean. | NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory | www.aoml .noaa.gov/ |
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| NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Global Carbon Cycle (GCC) Program | PMEL carries out interdisciplinary scientific investigations in oceanography and atmospheric science. Their GCC CO2 Program conducts research on the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide in the oceans. Atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide data are collected on cruises onboard NOAA vessels and from the TAO moorings. | NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) | www.pmel .noaa.gov/ |
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| Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis | The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, which includes the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, is the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). CDIAC's data holdings include records of the concentrations of carbon dioxide and other radiatively active gases in the atmosphere; the role of the terrestrial biosphere and the oceans in the biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases; emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere; long-term climate trends; the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on vegetation; and the vulnerability of coastal areas to rising sea level. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | cdiac.esd | Archives |
| ORNL Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Database | The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Database contains documented field measurements of biomass and estimated NPP for terrestrial sites worldwide, compiled from published literature and other extant data sources. It includes intensively studied and well-documented field study sites, together with more extensive collections of worldwide data. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center | www-eosdis .ornl.gov/ |
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| RECOPOL project | The RECOPOL project is an EU funded combined research and demonstration project to investigate the possibility of permanent subsurface storage of CO2 in coal. RECOPOL stands for: 'Reduction of CO2 emission by means of CO2 storage in coal seams in the Silesian Coal Basin of Poland'. The field demonstration experiment is the first of it's kind outside Northern America. | TNO (Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen) | www.nitg .tno.nl/ |
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| Trexler Climate + Energy Services, Inc. (TC+ES) | Trexler Climate + Energy Services, Inc. (TC+ES) [formerly Trexler & Associates, Inc.] is an internationally recognized leader in the emerging field of climate change risk management, with more than 13 years of demonstrated experience. Among its various tools and capabilities, TC+ES's Cli-Mit Market Analyzer uses supply and demand analysis to forecast GHG credit prices out to 2012 based on key policy and market assumptions made by the user. | Trexler & Associates, Inc. | www .climateservices .com |
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| DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory Carbon Sequestration webpage | NETL’s Carbon Sequestration Product webpage seeks to define carbon sequestration’s role in stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by developing a scientific understanding and environmentally acceptable technologies. NETL's research areas include capture & storage, geologic, ocean, and terrestrial sequestration, advanced CO2 conversion & reuse, and modeling & analysis. The site is designed to answer questions about carbon sequestration—from the basics to specific technical information. | U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory | www.netl .doe.gov/ |
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| DOE Office of Science Carbon Sequestration webpage | DOE's Office of Science is focusing its carbon sequestration efforts on: (1) Sequestering Carbon in Underground Geologic Repositories, (2) Enhancing the Natural Terrestrial Cycle, (3) Carbon Sequestration in the Oceans, and (4) Sequencing Genomes of Micro-organism for Carbon Management. By understanding how carbon dioxide "sinks" perform, they seek to enhance the ongoing natural processes and develop innovative new processes that add powerful new measures to carbon management options. | U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science | cdiac2.esd .ornl.gov/ |
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| Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum | The Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum is an international climate change initiative that will focus on development of carbon capture and storage technologies as a means to accomplishing long-term stabilization of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. This initiative is designed to improve carbon capture and storage technologies through coordinated research and development with international partners and private industry. | U.S. DOE, office of Fossil Energy | www.fe .doe.gov/ |
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| DOE Fossil Energy - Carbon Sequestration | The primary site for carbon sequestration maintained by the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. The site includes topic descriptions, news items, program descriptions and budgets, and links to special reports. | U.S. DOE, Office of Fossil Energy | www.fe. doe.gov/ |
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| EPA Global Warming: Actions | The website contains information on actions that are currently being taken to fight global warming. National, International, State, and Local initiatives are listed and contain links to many other sources. The State Action Plans are particularly interesting, as they show what specific states are doing to help slow global warming. Links to "Agriculture and Environment" describe various aspects of terrestrial sequestration. Sections also exist for action being taken in specific industries. | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | yosemite .epa.gov/ |
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| U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) | The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was created as a high-priority national research program to: (1)address key uncertainties about changes in the Earth’s global environmental system, both natural and human-induced; (2) monitor, understand, and predict global change; and (3) provide a sound scientific basis for national and international decision-making. The USGCRP coordinates the research of 10 Federal departments and agencies with active global change programs and provides liaison with the Executive Office of the President. | U.S. Global Change Research Program | www.usgcrp .gov/ |
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| Centre for CO2 Technology | The Centre for CO2 Technology has been established in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL). The Centre focuses on developing break-through technologies for the large scale reduction, removal, and sequestration (e.g. long term storage in geological, terrestrial, and ocean systems) of carbon dioxide. | University College London (UCL) | www .chemeng .ucl.ac.uk/ |
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| U.S. Global Change Research Program, Carbon Cycle Science Program (CCSP) | The Carbon Cycle Science Program (CCSP) is an interagency partnership aiming to develop a whole-system predictive capability for the global carbon system. Carbon cycle research is being coordinated and integrated to identify and quantify regional- to continental-scale sources and sinks for CO2 and other GHGs and to understand how these sources and sinks will function in the future. | US Global Change Research, Carbon Cycle Science Program | www .carboncycle science.gov/ |
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| USDA Agricultural Research Service, Global Change Program | The goal of the Global Change Program at the USDA Agricultural Research Service is to develop and provide adaptation, mitigation, and management strategies to the individual farm, ranch, and rural community, and to natural resource decision-makers to allow them to derive optimal benefit from the positive aspects of global change and deal effectively with the detrimental effects. | USDA Agricultural Research Service | www.nps .ars.usda.gov/ |
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| World Resource Institute: Carbon Storage and Sequestration | Carbon sequestration and storage slow the rate at which carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere and mitigate global warming. Forests sequester and store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem, and constitute an important natural defense against climate change. |
World Resources Institute (WRI) | www.wri | Archives |
| Advanced Resources International | Advanced Resources International is an energy and environmental consulting firm. The company currently has projects going on across the United States. The website provides short descriptions of the projects currently underway. | Advanced Resources International | Archives | |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | The IPCC was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988. The role of the organization is to assess technical and socio-economic information related to climate change. The website contains activities, publications, press releases, and presentations. | IPCC | Archives | |
| Pew Center on Global Climate Change | The Pew Center is a climate change think-tank located in Virginia. The Center's mission is to "provide credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change." The website contains many good analyses of carbon sequestration issues and policies. | Pew Center on Global Climate Change | Archives | |