[Terrapreta] carbon trading

[Folke Günther]

See my blog (from the bottom) and the article ’Carbon sequestration for everybody..’ I have since long proposed that if somebody has to pay for emitting carbon dioxide (e.g. a tax), anybody that can sequester the same amount of carbon (e.g. as charcoal in soil),should be paid the same amount, as a ‘negative’ tax. It’s just fair.

Moreover, just imagine if you culd be paid an amount corresponding to the Swedish carbon dioxide tax, 1 SEK (€ 0.1)/kg carbon dioxide = 3.67 SEK (€0.37) /kg charcoal buried in the soil. One tonne (easy to fix!) would give you € 370, a good extra on the other harvest. Imagine you really go for it and grow industrial hemp for carring. It could easily give 20 tonnes dw, with a charcoal yield of at least six tonnes per hectare.

The problem is not really the charring, but the politics around the creation of a fail carbon tax. 

The methods to reverse the global warming are there, and a lot of willing people.

We are just waiting for the poitical descisions.  

 

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Från: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] För Richard Haard
Skickat: den 13 mars 2008 16:19
Till: lou gold
Kopia: Terrapreta
Ämne: Re: [Terrapreta] carbon trading

 

In for example your arena -  A startup proposal  for application of carbon credits to a outreach program such as training and demonstration? Worth an inquiry to these groups? It seems such a program would develop its own inertia and like micro-financing and could have large additive effects. Perhaps some that are out there and not accounted for yet. Otherwise contracts for carbon sequestration credits would better match the large scale operations of electrical utilities, etc. 

 

Rich

 

 

On Mar 13, 2008, at 2:31 AM, lou gold wrote:





Here's the link to an interesting Wall Street Journal article about carbon trading.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120535230851631199.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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