The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
Anthony
King, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, kingaw@ornl.gov
(Presenting)
Lisa
Dilling, University of Colorado, ldillingg@cires.colorado.edu
David
Fairman, Consensus Building Institute, dfairman@cbuilding.org
Richard
Houghton, Woods Hole Research Center, rhoughton@whrc.org
Gregg
Marland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, marlandgh@ornl.gov
Adam
Rose, Pennsylvania State University, azr1@psu.edu
Tom
Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, wilbankstj@ornl.gov
Greg
Zimmerman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, zimmermangp@ornl.gov
The Carbon Cycle chapter of the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) describes a plan to produce “a series of increasingly comprehensive and informative reports about the status and trends of carbon emissions and sequestration,” each to be called a State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR). The CCSP Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) envisions “a series of reports on the state of the carbon cycle designed to provide accurate, unbiased, and policy-relevant scientific information concerning the carbon cycle to a broad range of stakeholders.” The first of these reports is underway and is being produced as CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP) 2.2: The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. Currently in draft, and scheduled for final release in March 2007, SOCCR SAP 2.2 will provide a synthesis and integration of the current knowledge of the North American carbon budget and its role within the context of the global carbon cycle in a format useful to decision-makers. The report addresses carbon emissions, natural reservoirs and sequestration, rates of transfer, the consequences of changes in carbon cycling on land and the ocean, effects of purposeful carbon management, and the socio-economic drivers and consequences of changes in the carbon cycle. The content and the process of producing the report are both designed to summarize scientific information in a way most useable for decision support and policy formulation concerning carbon.