In recent months, the Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance has sent a series of letters to the Climate Change and Development Authority about the development of REDD and carbon market regulation in the country. The most recent letter was published today (11 April 2023) as a full-page advert in the
Define the purpose for a carbon offset - Is it to trade the retention of a living area in exchange for someone’s burning of a fossil fuel? Note that the entire planet was totally involved in balancing the carbon cycle before any fossil fuels were discovered. Therefore an existing living natural area has nothing to offer in the way of offsetting a fossil-fuel emission.
In another matter, if all the desired regulatory measures are fully implemented, is there actually anything left to sell, even if carbon offsets were anything other than imaginary?
can you direct me to the source where you found the open letter?
Define the purpose for a carbon offset - Is it to trade the retention of a living area in exchange for someone’s burning of a fossil fuel? Note that the entire planet was totally involved in balancing the carbon cycle before any fossil fuels were discovered. Therefore an existing living natural area has nothing to offer in the way of offsetting a fossil-fuel emission.
In another matter, if all the desired regulatory measures are fully implemented, is there actually anything left to sell, even if carbon offsets were anything other than imaginary?
As previously mentioned, if we wish to pay people to retain natural areas, best to use oxygen pricing since that system sends them direct payments with none of this carbon baffle-gab. https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/can-oxygen-pricing-help-save-the