USDA forms Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is appointing 36 members to serve on the newly formed Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Advisory Council, informally referred to as to the Growing Climate Solutions Act Advisory Council.

The council will support the Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program in facilitating the participation in voluntary environmental credit markets by farmers, ranchers and private forest landowners, including beginning, socially disadvantaged, limited-resource and veteran farmers. Key activities of the council will include periodically reviewing and recommending changes to the protocols recognized by the program for generating environmental credits, the required qualifications for entities that provide technical assistance to farmers, ranchers and landowners, and the activities available to farmers, ranchers and landowners under the program to prevent, reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.