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Carbon Offsetting??Please show me the theory in practice.
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<blockquote data-quote="holwellcourtfarm" data-source="post: 7844884" data-attributes="member: 42914"><p>"Offsetting" was a clever invention of the deal makers at Paris to try to keep the whole show on the road when it became clear that to genuinely avoid 2°C of GMSL temperature rise meant urgent, massive and increasing, cuts to fossil fuel use which would collapse the global economy. Politicians and policy advisers leapt on it as a workable interim solution without any real idea of the exit strategy. High emitting business (which includes most major companies these days) then grabbed it with glee as a way to "be seen to be doing something" while not actually having to change their (economically) valuable business model.</p><p></p><p>Then the scientific evidence of the issue got even more alarming and the notion of "overshoot" came into play whereby the policy leaders accept that we will exceed the temperature target, probably around 2030, but can then remove enough C from the atmosphere to return back below 2°C by 2050 using CCS, CCUS and BECCS alongside offsetting. The smoke and mirrors continues.</p><p></p><p>Note:</p><p></p><p>CCS = Carbon Capture and Storage. Can be adding trees, increasing soil OM or air source capture and permanent deep storage. Only 2 of these are currently scaleable and economically viable.</p><p></p><p>CCUS = Carbon Capture, Utilisation or Storage. Carbon is captured and then used for another purpose, typically either processing into a new fuel (For example; "sustainable aviation fuel") or pumping into existing oil weeks to help squeeze the pool out faster. Currently the darling of big business because it's more affordable (because the captured carbon is saleable) but does nothing to actually reduce atmospheric carbon levels so is a red herring.</p><p></p><p>BECCS = Bio-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage. Darling of the UK government and CCC. Growing biofuel cross then capturing the carbon emissions and storing them away as per CCS, resulting in cheaper capture of the carbon than straight CCS but still using large amounts of energy to catch, prices and deposit the resulting carbon. Almost as unaffordable as straight CCS.</p><p></p><p>The choice is either climate "indulgences" that don't solve the problem or real solutions that cost so much that the economy is fundamentally hugely contracted by them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="holwellcourtfarm, post: 7844884, member: 42914"] "Offsetting" was a clever invention of the deal makers at Paris to try to keep the whole show on the road when it became clear that to genuinely avoid 2°C of GMSL temperature rise meant urgent, massive and increasing, cuts to fossil fuel use which would collapse the global economy. Politicians and policy advisers leapt on it as a workable interim solution without any real idea of the exit strategy. High emitting business (which includes most major companies these days) then grabbed it with glee as a way to "be seen to be doing something" while not actually having to change their (economically) valuable business model. Then the scientific evidence of the issue got even more alarming and the notion of "overshoot" came into play whereby the policy leaders accept that we will exceed the temperature target, probably around 2030, but can then remove enough C from the atmosphere to return back below 2°C by 2050 using CCS, CCUS and BECCS alongside offsetting. The smoke and mirrors continues. Note: CCS = Carbon Capture and Storage. Can be adding trees, increasing soil OM or air source capture and permanent deep storage. Only 2 of these are currently scaleable and economically viable. CCUS = Carbon Capture, Utilisation or Storage. Carbon is captured and then used for another purpose, typically either processing into a new fuel (For example; "sustainable aviation fuel") or pumping into existing oil weeks to help squeeze the pool out faster. Currently the darling of big business because it's more affordable (because the captured carbon is saleable) but does nothing to actually reduce atmospheric carbon levels so is a red herring. BECCS = Bio-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage. Darling of the UK government and CCC. Growing biofuel cross then capturing the carbon emissions and storing them away as per CCS, resulting in cheaper capture of the carbon than straight CCS but still using large amounts of energy to catch, prices and deposit the resulting carbon. Almost as unaffordable as straight CCS. The choice is either climate "indulgences" that don't solve the problem or real solutions that cost so much that the economy is fundamentally hugely contracted by them. [/QUOTE]
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