Final Environmental Impact Statement Rio de los Pinos Vegetation ...

Final Environmental Impact Statement Rio de los Pinos Vegetation Management Project
a proposed project on climate change. Each of these is briefly discussed below relative to this
project.
Effects of climate change on a proposed project
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) does not specifically require analysis of how
environmental factors, such as global climate change, might impact a proposed action. Any
differences in effects of climate change on the project between alternatives (including no action)
would be negligible.
Effects of proposed project on climate change
The proposed activities are extremely small in scope and magnitude relative to a planetary scale.
Although it may be possible to quantify a project’s direct effects on carbon sequestration and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there is no certainty about the actual intensity of individual
project indirect effects on global climate change. Cumulative effects would be a consideration of
GHG emissions affecting climate from multiple projects over time. But, as GHG emissions are
integrated across the global atmosphere, it is not possible to determine the cumulative impact on
global climate from emissions associated with any number of particular projects. Nor is it
expected that such disclosure would provide a practical or meaningful effects analysis for project
decisions. Any differences between alternatives (including no action) would be negligible at a
global scale.
Chapter 3 – Affected Environment & Environmental Consequences Page 3-104