[Terrapreta] Bali Media Opportunity

[Tom Miles]

Ruy,

 

Pronatura and Eco-Carbone are organizations promoting biochar in Brazil.
They are both located in Paris. Eco-carbone has CDM projects in Gabon,
Niger, Mali, China and Russia so they should be quite familiar with paths to
make biochar eligible for CDM. 

http://www.pronatura.org/en/becs.html

http://www.eco-carbone.com/english.html

 

Are these organizations likely to be in Bali? Can they be enlisted to help?

 

Are other organization that have been active in Brazil engaged in CDM
discussions about terra preta?

See: http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/taxonomy/term/6/9

 

Regards,

 

Tom Miles

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/

 

 

 

 

 

From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Ruy Korscha
Anaya de la Rosa
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 6:05 AM
To: Terrapreta
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Bali Media Opportunity

 


Hello Terrapreta list members,

I have been reading this list since its beginning but unfortunately I
haven't been participative. 
I think Lou opened the gate for me with his e-mail (cheers Lou), so I
decided to set the foot in the door. 

Let me give you a brief introduction of myself:
I am Ruy Korscha Anaya de la Rosa, a Mexican passport holder, but most
relevant: a World Citizen highly concerned about the link between
sustainable development and global warming and its consequences. 

I specialized in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol
and its opportunities and barriers in Least Developed Countries. I have
witnessed CDM's complex, slow, expensive and bureaucratic procedures from a
project developer's view to, currently, a carbon credit buyer's perspective.
I have followed notably the issue on non-renewable biomass. 

The two methodologies addressing non-renewable biomass have been recently
approved by the CDM's Executive Board but, apparently, they now need the
green light from the Conference-Meeting of the Parties (CMP) next month in
Bali. 

The constant exchange (almost two years now) of several drafts of these
methodologies and their respective "requests for revision" between the CDM's
Executive Board, Methodology Panel and submitting parties makes me think
that a CDM officialy approved terra preta methodology would take ages. 

I have personally talked about terra preta to a considerable amount of
carbon market participants and they, despite of not understanding the term
and how it works, seem interested to know more about terra preta. As Lou
implies, we should hurry up and indeed put terra preta under the spotlight
next month in Bali. 

I am very much interested in including terra preta projects in the Carbon
Finance Portfolio whether in the CDM or in the Voluntary Carbon Market.
Therefore I am packing terra preta in my bag and bringing it with me to
Bali. 

Positive energies to all of you,

Ruy

------------------------------------------
Ruy Korscha Anaya de la Rosa
 Project Manager
 Goodplanet / Action Carbone
 Domaine de Longchamp,
 Carrefour de Longchamp 
 75116 PARIS
 France
 Tel: +33 (0) 1 48 42 76 04
 <www.goodplanet.org> <www.actioncarbone.org>
 E-mail: ruy at yannarthusbertrand.org ; ruy at actioncarbone.org




On Nov 23, 2007 1:53 PM, lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com
<mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com> > wrote:


Hi Everyone, 

The Bali meetings to replace or revise the Kyoto protocols will take place
Dec 3 - 14. These meeting will generate a lot of media attention worldwide.
And that will also be a great opportunity to connect with bloggers,
editorial boards, journalists and the like. From what I have read carbon
capture and sequestration in the soil is NOT ON THE AGENDA. 

But not to fear. This is a process building toward new protocols and a new
"carbon economy." Therefore it is extremely important that we enter the
dialogue. It's a magnificient opportunity to people -- lay and expert,
public and private -- interested. We need to start crafting our messages,
pleas, letters to the editor, whatevers and make sure that we crank them out
during the short period of media spotlight and attention. We need to help
give terra preta a voice that might move the world from fossil fuel darkness
into a living and growing light. 


Here is the rap at the official site at
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4094.php

What is expected from the Bali Conference? 

An international agreement needs to be found to follow the end of the Kyoto
Protocol's first commitment period, which ends in 2012. In order to avoid a
gap between then and the entry into force of a new framework, the aim is to
conclude a new deal by 2009 to allow enough time for ratification. 

The "Bali roadmap" would establish the process to work on the key building
blocks of a future climate change regime, including adaptation, mitigation,
technology cooperation and financing the response to climate change. But it
would also need to set out the methodology and detailed calendar of work for
this process.

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