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<blockquote data-quote="The Ruminant" data-source="post: 7370595" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>I can’t see carbon trading being workable. The only way you can justify being paid for removing carbon out of the air is if you can guarantee it will never be put back into the air. Locking carbon into soils is doable, and we should all be striving to do so for the health of our land, but it isn’t permanent and could easily be reversed through changes in land management. What happens in ten, twenty, thirty years time when the carbon has escaped? Do you repay the money? Are you fined? How does it work?</p><p></p><p>Put it another way. I know mob grazing sequesters (locks in) a lot of carbon into the soil. I could take payments for doing so for, say, a ten year period. If I was a dodgy character, at the end of the agreement I could then plough the land hard to reduce the soil carbon levels and, after a year or two, start again and take new payments.</p><p></p><p>To avoid this the agreements are going to have to last for decades after the money has been received.</p><p></p><p>Tread carefully.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Ruminant, post: 7370595, member: 487"] I can’t see carbon trading being workable. The only way you can justify being paid for removing carbon out of the air is if you can guarantee it will never be put back into the air. Locking carbon into soils is doable, and we should all be striving to do so for the health of our land, but it isn’t permanent and could easily be reversed through changes in land management. What happens in ten, twenty, thirty years time when the carbon has escaped? Do you repay the money? Are you fined? How does it work? Put it another way. I know mob grazing sequesters (locks in) a lot of carbon into the soil. I could take payments for doing so for, say, a ten year period. If I was a dodgy character, at the end of the agreement I could then plough the land hard to reduce the soil carbon levels and, after a year or two, start again and take new payments. To avoid this the agreements are going to have to last for decades after the money has been received. Tread carefully..... [/QUOTE]
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