A question for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations: “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
A question for the Coalition for Rainforest Nations: “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Yesterday, REDD-Monitor looked at a White Paper put out by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) criticising the Coalition for Rainforest Nations’ platform REDD.plus, for claiming that its REDD+ Results Units™ are carbon credits. Today’s post looks at the Coalition for Rainforest Nations’
Finally, someone gets it right - the Bloomberg statement above that "the climate-cooling benefits they provide are already baked into the global goals for lowering emissions." The entire planet has always been involved with solving the carbon cycle problems, that's how the fossil fuels got stored away (not very safely, it appears). Even if a country with a tropical rain forest could demonstrate reduced damage to the forest (end logging, etc.) that act still can’t be sold as an emissions mitigation, since it only serves to bring that forest back up to full operation.
Then Donna Lee mentions that “we just don’t have a carbon budget for these credits,” and for certain, none of these “offsets” has ever resulted in a lowering of the CO2 level, see the Keeling Curve charts. As she says, it becomes a trade-off, an imaginary right to continue to burn fossil fuels.
Finally, someone gets it right - the Bloomberg statement above that "the climate-cooling benefits they provide are already baked into the global goals for lowering emissions." The entire planet has always been involved with solving the carbon cycle problems, that's how the fossil fuels got stored away (not very safely, it appears). Even if a country with a tropical rain forest could demonstrate reduced damage to the forest (end logging, etc.) that act still can’t be sold as an emissions mitigation, since it only serves to bring that forest back up to full operation.
Then Donna Lee mentions that “we just don’t have a carbon budget for these credits,” and for certain, none of these “offsets” has ever resulted in a lowering of the CO2 level, see the Keeling Curve charts. As she says, it becomes a trade-off, an imaginary right to continue to burn fossil fuels.