[Terrapreta] Bali Media Opportunity

[Duane Pendergast]

            Dear Ruy,

 

I suspect some strong vested interests have been established within CDM
circles. I get a kick out of schemes to reap credits for methane reduction.
Surely those who promote those projects would be very leery of credits for
char burial. Of course as long as the price of the CO2 equivalent credits
ifs the same there is no way terra preta could compete.

 

I published a little paper which included some comment on this - peer
reviewed no less - last year.

 

http://www.computare.org/publications.htm  >> May 2006 - Kyoto and Beyond:
Development of Sustainable Policy See the section on landfill gas.

 

I also wish I'd had the foresight to buy a few barrels of Freon back in the
late eighties. I get the impression they would be a goldmine on the CDM
market for GHG destruction now.

 

Duane

 

-----Original Message-----
From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Ruy Korscha
Anaya de la Rosa
Sent: November 23, 2007 7:05 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. 

...


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. 

 

 

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