Sequestration
Protecting and expanding our carbon sinks through nature-based solutions.
We assist clients and communities with nature-based, multi-benefit solutions and carbon sequestration services to assess their existing carbon stock, project future carbon stock, and identify carbon sequestration strategies and opportunities to help meet climate and conservation goals.
We understand the importance of vegetation and soil on natural undeveloped lands, both for their contributions to community character and as healthy ecological habitats. We assist clients and communities with carbon sequestration services to assess their existing carbon stock, project future carbon stock, and identify carbon sequestration strategies and opportunities to help meet climate and conservation goals.
- Carbon stock and sequestration baseline inventories
- Carbon stock and sequestration projections
- Spatial analyses of carbon stock changes
- ArcGIS Online map development
- Integrated open space planning and management
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Climate impacts on carbon stock and sequestration potential
- Land use change impacts on carbon stock and sequestration potential
- Carbon sequestration measure development
Hannah Kornfeld AICP
Climate Practice Leader
Brenda Hom
Senior Climate Action Specialist
- Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments
- County of Alameda
- County of Mendocino
- County of Monterey
- County of Napa
- County of San Diego
ClearPath 2.0, a next-generation climate planning platform developed by ICLEI USA and ClimateView, is transforming how local governments visualize, track, and implement climate goals. The City of Elk Grove recently pioneered the platform’s implementation, demonstrating how this innovative tool addresses persistent challenges in climate action planning—from enhancing transparency to enabling precise impact quantification.
Two new state laws—Senate Bill (SB) 1425 and Assembly Bill (AB) 1889—require counties and cities to update their general plans to address equitable access to open space, rewilding, wildlife and habitat connectivity, and climate resilience. SB 1425 requires every city and county to review and update its general plan open space element by January 1, 2026, to include plans and an action program that address equitable access, correlated with the environmental justice element; climate resilience and other co-benefits of open space, correlated with the safety element; and rewilding opportunities correlated with the land use element. AB 1889, the “Room to Roam Act,” requires cities and counties to consider the effect of development on wildlife movement and habitat connectivity in the adoption or next revision of their general plan conservation element beginning on January 1, 2028. These new laws can guide the development of more inclusive, resilient, and ecologically connected landscapes across California.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) issued a Restoration Management Permit(RMP) to California State Parks in December 2023 for the Mount Diablo State Park Vegetation Treatment Project. The RMP is the first approved for a CalVTP vegetation treatment project. It is part of CDFW’s Cutting the Green Tape program to accelerate the pace and scale of restoration throughout the state. CSP’s CalVTP project qualified for the first RMP because it would create ecological benefits for the covered species, Alameda whipsnake.
