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Reasons for hope: Impact updates
June
Woodwell Climate and IPAM Amazônia mark the 20th anniversary of Tanguro Field Station with a symposium convening agricultural producers, scientists, public officials, and Indigenous peoples to reflect on learnings of the past two decades and to chart a path forward for Amazon forest research and conservation.
woodwellclimate.org/tanguro-science-symposium-recap
July
Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduces the FORECASTS Tracking Act—new legislation that would for the first time consider the importance of monitoring permafrost thaw as part of a broader effort to improve U.S. weather forecasting and modeling, and support cutting-edge tools and resources to better track this serious environmental hazard in the North.
permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/markey-bill-makes-permafrost-a-national-weatherforecasting-priority
August
Experts from Woodwell Climate Research Center issue public comment urging the IRS and Treasury Department to adopt more rigorous guardrails regarding the use of wood for bioenergy in the agencies’ proposed guidance on clean electricity tax credits.
woodwellclimate.org/climate-scientists-warn-against-burning-biomass-as-clean-energy-solution
September
Woodwell Climate Board members, senior leaders, and scientists participate in more than a dozen Congressional meetings during the Center’s Third Annual DC Fly-in. Topics included climate security, the need for national climate services to provide risk information for communities at scale, opportunities to advance natural climate solutions through the Farm Bill, and the devastating impacts of permafrost thaw on Alaska Native communities.
woodwellclimate.org/climate-policy-fly-in-2024
At Climate Week NYC, Woodwell Climate, IPAM Amazônia, and the Governor of Pará, Brazil sign a memorandum of understanding to address the local impacts of climate change in Belém (the site of COP30 in 2025) and throughout the Amazon.
woodwellclimate.org/partnership-risk-assessment-for-belem-para-cop30
October
Permafrost Pathways’ work on Arctic and boreal wildfires takes center stage at the Arctic Circle Assembly, with one panelist displaying a Woodwell-generated map and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski citing statistics from our research and noting our pilot project on fire suppression in Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge as a promising solution.
Read more about the featured work: woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppression-yukon-flatsnational-wildlife-refuge/
November
A delegation of Woodwell Climate scientists and policy experts participates in the COP29 UN climate negotiations, hosting a dozen panel discussions, convening with partners from Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and urging greater ambition and urgency on forest protection, sustainable agriculture, Indigenous rights, and global adaptation goals.
