Net Zero Fossil Fuel GHG Emissions via Federal Land Use Planning

Net Zero Fossil Fuel GHG Emissions via Federal Land Use Planning

GTSI is supporting The Wilderness Society (TWS) in its initiative to encourage net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel developments on U.S. federal lands by 2030. Specifically, GTSI developed a framework that Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field offices can to use in developing and considering a net zero planning alternative. It details a process by which BLM offices can 1) model GHG emissions under the baseline (i.e., no action alternative) scenario based on key variables and assumptions, and 2) consider and model the impacts of a hierarchy of measures to avoid, minimize, and then offset GHG emissions from oil and gas developments. The framework provides an accounting approach that can be used to assess how the selected measures contribute to achieving the net zero objective.

TWS further enlisted GTSI on follow-up projects to a) develop a user-friendly spreadsheet-based modeling tool that TWS and BLM staff will be able to use to execute the net zero framework in their planning processes and advocacy and b) apply the framework to two different Resource Management Plans under development by BLM to demonstrate the framework’s application.

Services: Policy instrument choice and design