Carbon Credit concept

[mukundmsc]

Would liketo know more about the carbon ccredit concept and plants listed under this concept

[NITESHPANDIT]

sir we are intersted to know pls send us detail mail

[suryanarmada]

Dear Friend

You just go through this link in the below said where we have already discussed about carbon credit to an extent. So kindly go through it and if you fine any more question we can able to give more relavant information

http://www.agricultureinformation.co...pic.php?t=9467

Regards
Surya Narmata

[carboncredit]

We are "Carbon Credit Consultants", and help companies aquire Crabon Credits.

[kirti s]

Dear Sir

CARBON CREDITS
Atmospheric carbon dioxide has to be reduced to near pre-industrial levels quickly and this can only be done by the manufacture and creation of humus-rich fertile soil. The numbers are there in PRIORITY The Kyoto establishment of a carbon credit trading system was never created with the intention of encouraging the production of fertile and productive soil. Increasing soil fertility invariably necessitates ending the widespread use of agrochemicals. The industrial lobbyists at Kyoto never realized how easy, healthy and rewarding it is to farm without poisoning the soil. The clear-cut marketing objectives of the fossil carbon corporations are first to maintain, and second to expand the sales of their two major products. And those two major products are transport fuels and agrochemicals. Their marketing experts saw the threat of global warming driving down sales. It was obvious that global warming had to be handled as a long term and ongoing public relations exercise. The creation of carbon credits was a clever concept that ideally suited the PR strategies.

Agricultural chemical companies invariably operate on the quite fictional belief that food production is dependent on the quantity of agrochemicals poured onto the land to grow that food. Our Western societies will always produce the quantity of food we want. At agrochemical marketing head office it is thus blind faith that more chemicals will be sold if available farmland areas are massively restricted - hydroponics being their ideal scenario.

In agriculture, the major system for generating carbon credits is structured so that a farmer who takes good fertile productive agricultural land out of production, by filling up that land with tree seedlings, to be carefully nurtured and grown into a forest, can then claim carbon credits. Part of the technical requirement is that, what amounts to a covenant, is placed on that land. The covenant is a guarantee that the land will never again be farmed. In addition the covenant precludes the timber grown from any possible or practical future use. And this covenant is structured to last for a hundred years. If the trees die, or if they burn they have to be replaced by the farmer.

"Afforestation" and "reforestation" to fix supposedly sinful "deforestation" are the marketing gurus new buzzwords, the new holy grails, altars on which, for a hundred years honest farmlands are sacrificed to the gods of oil.

For the farmer, or any subsequent buyer who wishes to harvest the timber, or use the land for food, or as grazing land, or even as a golf course, it all becomes illegal and impossible. It can only be reclaimed for future use when all the carbon credits are refunded in hard cash, or replaced by credits from some place else. The landowner is not even allowed to use the timber to build a house. He can't even build a log cabin. According to the Kyoto carbon credits rules our farmer's house has to be built from high fossil fuel energy dependant materials. Kyoto effectively demands houses built of steel or aluminium, concrete, bricks or plastics. Never wood.

Yet trees are not in any way a viable carbon sink. That concept is a manufactured fiction.


This is all eminently sensible and utterly practical. Human health would improve worldwide. But of course agrochemical sales would plummet! The Kyoto carbon credits protocol specifically excludes the concept of exempting the enhancement of the fertility of soils from qualifying as a source of carbon credits. How very convenient for the agrochemical companies. This is madness and it cannot be tolerated.

If the Kyoto committee won't certify carbon credits created by soil fertility enhancement then responsible citizens and responsible farmers should establish their own certification procedure.To test for increases in soil organic matter, which is now often simply described as soil carbon, is easy. I would suggest that soil samples be taken randomly over the farm's paddocks. Samples should be taken to a consistent depth; I would suggest 600 mm (24 inches). The depth is not critical provided that on any one farm the same depth is used every year. Fibrous materials, roots etc. should be removed, and then an actual carbon test for weight (mass) should be measured. Any officially approved lab can do this, and would certainly suffice. That then becomes the base year.

Carbon credits are then assigned for yearly increases in carbon content above that base year. Cheating or inconsistent readings are self-corrected by subsequent yearly readings. Carbon dioxide quantities are simply calculated knowing that carbon dioxide contains 27.27% carbon. Testing is thus simple, cheap and effectively foolproof.

Tree enthusiasts advocate planting endless trees of endless varieties.Also what often appears as worthless soil can often and quite rapidly be converted into rich and healthy soil. Soil that helps halt global warming, produces valuable crops and enhances our combined wealth.

Kirti

[anandmundhra]

Originally Posted by mukundmsc

Would liketo know more about the carbon ccredit concept and plants listed under this concept

please explain thsi concept

[suryanarmada]

Dear Friend.

Carbon credit is a system evolved mainly to clean the environment.
One CER ( Carbon emission rate) = one tonnes of carbondi oxide

The carbon credit is calculated using this formula.

When taking about this concept we have to examine which one will act as source for letting out co2 and which one will act as sink. So one of the best sink is trees. So this concept encourages growing of more trees and the owner will be paid for CER emitted by the trees.

Regards
Surya Narmada

[zaheerd]

Originally Posted by carboncredit

We are "Carbon Credit Consultants", and help companies aquire Crabon Credits.

We would like to know that what is exactly Carbon credit and also do we qualify for the same. If yes how can we do and what is the procedure. Please leave your details and we will get back to you.

[kirti s]

Dear Sir

Carbon credits are a tradable permit scheme. They provide a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving them a monetary value. A credit gives the owner the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide. Carbon credits are generated as the result of an additional carbon project. A credit can be an emissions allowance which is allocated or auctioned by the administrators of a cap-and-trade program or an offset of Greenhouse Gas equivalent carbon dioxide emissions.

The first step in determining whether or not a carbon project has legitimately lead to the reduction of real, measurable, permanent emissions is understanding the CDM methodology process. This is the process by which project participants submit, through a Designated Operational Entity (DOE) their concepts for emissions reduction creation. The Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board (CDM EB), along with the CDM Methodology Panel decide which environmental proofs do indeed result in reductions that are additional.

Kirti

[hrushikesh]

Hi
I am interested in pursuing training for carbon credit consultancy.
In case anybody has information about the same plz let me know.
AM post grad in agril econ.
regards
Hrushikesh