Sustainability & Land Carbon Sequestration
Municipal codes, zoning, and land management choices can all result in positive or negative impacts on our environment. SFM Consulting supports local decision-makers in developing policies and tools for keeping our communities healthy and vibrant, while protecting the natural environment. We are particularly focused on the opportunity for sequestering carbon in natural and developed landscapes to help address climate change. Integrating these considerations into our planning processes can ensure our towns and cities will thrive into the 21st century and beyond.
SFM Consulting works with top national experts, like Emily McGlynn, and the scientific community to understand how land management practices can impact the environment and the climate and to develop best practice land management, zoning, and municipal code templates for communities to utilize. Priorities include preserving open space and wetlands, sustainably managing storm water, promoting forests and urban trees, integrating natural landscapes into our communities, and more. We look forward to working with local leaders to put these sustainability principles into practice.
SFM Sustainability Manager
Emily McGlynn advises SFM Consulting on sustainability, climate change, and resilient land use planning. She is an economist and expert on climate, energy, and environmental policy. As Director of Climate and Sustainability Research at BlackRock, she uses novel modeling, data, and analysis to support sustainable investing objectives. Emily previously served as Deputy Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House. In this capacity she was a lead author of the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization. As Senior Adviser to the Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. Department of State, Emily led international initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including bilateral cooperation with China. Emily supported private equity investment in environmental markets as Director for Strategy and Policy at The Earth Partners. She has a PhD in resource economics from University of California Davis and is a Truman Scholar and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient.
Read some of Emily’s work:
Building Carbon in America’s Farms, Forests, and Grasslands: Foundations for a Policy Roadmap
By Emily McGlynn, Christopher Galik, David Tepper, Jerod Myers, Julie DeMeester - Forest Trends
