It’s savvy.
Contributes to reduce global warming.
Enable better environmental solutions.
Gives more money to the country.
Help to save more trees.
Produces more green energy.
brazilians
should
sell carbon credits
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Nice idea, but...
This assumes that Brazil has any carbon credits to actually sell, doessn’t it?
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) you reference as a carbon credit is provided for under the Kyoto Protocol.
This serves as the basis for utilizing the emissions trading markets.
But here is where it gets gnarley…
The requirement for eligibility of a project for a CDM credit is that the effort must result in a net reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Bottom line – carbon capture projects, including any conservation or replanting efforts to replace clear cutting would qualify for ‘carbon credits’... provided there was actually a reduction in green house gas emissions. Current research indicates that simply managing the deforestation has no noticeable effect. And given then current logging efforts, the result is actually a significant production of the very thing the world wants to trade credits for not producing.
Unfortunately, a project that simply helps to save more trees does not produce that reduction in ‘carbon footprint’, hence no credits to sell.
Should do this
Hi t Knight,
that’s right!
Brazil does has a lot of carbon credits to sell. Point is: almost nobody does.
There is a kind of lettargy in the country. The industrials are already earning so much money, that they just don’t care about carbon credits. And we are running out of time…
Of course the idea is to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions and by doing that trying to extend our life span on to this small planet.
The ammount of metane generated in Brazil is huge. Not only because of the immense ammount of grasing catle, but also because the waste isn’t yet propperly separated.
Even the water reservoirs that are kept to generate ‘clean’ electricity produces metane.
There is no point in just save more trees as most people understand as an ecological attitude towards having a pro-environment mind if no pollution habits are changed.
We need more sustainable projects and education…
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