[Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle

[Duane Pendergast]

Sean,

 

I believe, in concept, Canada could sell credits under the Joint
Implementation (JI) part of Kyoto as Russia plans to do. 

 

http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/press_releases_and_advisories/applic
ation/pdf/20070601_english.pdf

 

However, since our emissions are already some 35% above the Kyoto limit and
rising - except for the last year we counted - there is not much chance of
that. As a result Canada is positioned to potentially be a big buyer under
the Clean Development Mechanism and thus could be stuck with a major part of
the expense of paying for Kyoto. That is why - to me as a Canadian taxpayer
- the best part of the Kyoto Protocol is the withdrawal clause. 

 

I've read the Kyoto Protocol quite carefully over the years from 1997.  It,
its predecessors, its successors, and the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate change are an exceedingly complex set of interlocking
documents and agreements. It might be better to go to the source instead of
Wikipedia. At the very least, the United Nations Work on climate change is
quite extensively and publicly documented. Canada's government, whether
through bureaucratic meddling, incompetency, or government policy has
managed to lose, about a year ago, most of its public documentation of a
very thorough and expensive study of greenhouse gas management undertaken by
government, industry and environmental groups.  Here is the UNFCCC site.

 

http://unfccc.int/2860.php

 

Duane

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean K. Barry [mailto:sean.barry at juno.com] 
Sent: June 6, 2007 10:33 AM
To: still.thinking at computare.org; 'lou gold'; Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Fwd: Fwd: Global Carbon Cycle

 

Hi Duane,

 

Canada is an industrialized and developed country, an Annex I country.  As
far as I know, Annex I countries cannot sell "carbon credits" under the
"Carbon Trading Scheme" provided under the Kyoto Protocol Treaty.

 

Look here ->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_
Change to understand how the "Carbon Trading Scheme" is designed to work.
Canada, like any other Annex I country, can only buy "carbon credits".

 

Regards,

 

SKB

 

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