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GREENING THE DESERT™ - CARBON CREDITS
Over the last 200 years, billions of tonnes of carbon (perhaps as
much as 50 billion in Australia) have been lost as a result of forest
clearing, fires and cultivation.
Large scale terrestrial sequestration
projects could restore up to 25% of these carbon losses.
Terrestrial carbon
offsets can provide environmental benefits from projects funded
by carbon credits which are a tradable permit scheme.
One carbon
credit delivers to the owner a right to emit one tonne of CO2
and is assigned a monetary value (which enables trading).
PundaZoie ™ bases the value for its carbon
credits on the European Climate Exchange.
Personal carbon
credits - with carbon credits one can reduce their personal impact
on the greenhouse effect and lower their climate change impact. This
is known as a “carbon
footprint”.
A recognized example is the purchase of abatement
offsets to compensate for greenhouse
gas emitted by personal air travel. By annually purchasing carbon
credits one can pay and provide for tree planting to offset their
yearly carbon emissions from flying.
Calculate your own credits. See: www.climateclever.com.au.
Industry carbon
credits - many parts of business operations and activities have
a negative effect on the environment.
One can calculate their company's greenhouse
gas emissions either by direct discharge or indirect release (such
as electricity use) and purchase offsets to reduce their company's
carbon
footprint.
To do this, a company or business buys Greenhouse
Friendly ™ accredited carbon
credits from companies such as PundaZoie which plants trees and
shrubs to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
In the case of PundaZoie however, these plantings not only deal the
issue of global warming but address the problems of drought-stress
and salinity as well.
Where your money goes - the carbon
credit money that you spend for carbon
sequestration is allocated by PundaZoie to its Greening
the Desert ™ Program for its fully identified and document-approved
Greenhouse Friendly™ Abatement
Provider project.
To qualify as Greenhouse
Friendly™, PundaZoie is compelled to take all necessary steps
to qualify every Forest Sink Project it undertakes with the Australian
Greenhouse Office (AGO).
This includes a range of different requirements - all of which are
detailed in the Planning Forests Sinks Projects blueprint - which
can be downloaded from the AGO
website:
See: www.greenhouse.gov.au/nrmpublications/forestsinks-planning.html
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