Quick Survey on Carbon Credit Market (10 mins)

[Felix Wieberneit]

Dear all,

I am Felix, a masters student from Imperial College London.

Currently, my teammates and I are researching the topic of Carbon-Negative Farming practices in the UK. I have previously asked you for your opinion of the carbon-negative farming metho and since received excellent feedbacks that were incredibly valuable. As a result, we now wish to help change the carbon credit marketplace to better suit farmers' needs.

Link to survey

We appreciate your replies, and please feel free to leave any criticism or feedback in the comments!

Ps.
If you have seen my post in other forums, I apologise for the spamming; it is precious for my team and me to get as many answers from farmers as possible!

Yours faithfully,
Felix Wieberniet

 

[matthew]

Your survey appears to assume that farmers want to trade their carbon credits?

There are few if any questions which deal with those of us who a) are not convinced of a safe method of determining carbon status and b) may not wish to be drawn into green washing another's dirty laundry by trading their own more sustainable status.

Just an observation....

 

[melted welly]

Most farmers will be cynical as it’s not the first time some new scheme comes on the go which has noble intentions but will ultimately end up making shiny suited tossers a lot of money, whilst tying unsuspecting subscribers up in knots of obligations and rules.

Sorry to be less than enthusiastic.

 

[Highland Mule]

Your survey appears to assume that farmers want to trade their carbon credits?

There are few if any questions which deal with those of us who a) are not convinced of a safe method of determining carbon status and b) may not wish to be drawn into green washing another's dirty laundry by trading their own more sustainable status.

Just an observation....

This. If you care for the environment, you wouldn't sell credits.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

No one has ever indicated what the real value of this is in money terms. Without those figures this is dead.

 

[wanton dwarf]

NFU created a conference to discuss Carbon Taxes and planting trees in my area.

Had an email stating the meeting has been cancelled due to lack of attendance.

Not surprised.

 

[Still Farming]

No one has ever indicated what the real value of this is in money terms. Without those figures this is dead.

It was stated in other threads and an Irish Journal article apparently.

 

[N.Yorks.]

If you're going to talk carbon sequestration in soil you'll also need to acknowledge that high carbon soils in many instances emit significant amounts of the GHG nitrous oxide, which has 250-300 times a greater warming effect than co2.

So in summary if you are encouraging this you may well be barking up the wrong tree, and when those fancy lawyers start going at it you'll wish you'd never started.

Stop digging carbon up out of the earths crust and converting it to co2, that'sthe solution, not creating a tenuous market. Caveat, I agree that trees do sequester carbon as long as they don't get burnt once harvested.

 

[Still Farming]

A Carbon Calculator app you want to develope that is universally qualified and excepted and a bench mark to go forward by possibly?

 

[matthew]

A Carbon Calculator app you want to develope that is universally qualified and excepted and a bench mark to go forward by possibly?

just don’t ask Neil Ferguson to construct it

 

[yellowbelly]

Dear all,

I am Felix, a masters student from Imperial College London.

Currently, my teammates and I are researching the topic of Carbon-Negative Farming practices in the UK. I have previously asked you for your opinion of the carbon-negative farming metho and since received excellent feedbacks that were incredibly valuable. As a result, we now wish to help change the carbon credit marketplace to better suit farmers' needs.

Link to survey

We appreciate your replies, and please feel free to leave any criticism or feedback in the comments!

Ps.
If you have seen my post in other forums, I apologise for the spamming; it is precious for my team and me to get as many answers from farmers as possible!

Yours faithfully,
Felix Wieberniet

I wouldn't want to rain on your parade*/pee on your chips* ( * delete as appropriate) but with the amount of grief that the agricultural sector is getting from all and sundry about our 'outrageous methane and carbon emissions', what makes you think that any farmer, in his right mind, would ever want to sell his carbon credits, or whatever you want to call them, to the likes of Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos or any other high flying Billy Whizz just so they can carry on burning fossil fuels to their heart's content?

Farmers appear, at last, to be sitting on something that the rest of the world suddenly wants.
Well, IMHO, the rest of the world needs to feck off. We need to ring fence all our carbon credits, trade them between ourselves if we like, but certainly not sell them to big business so they can carry on as they like.
They need to put their own houses in order - we've been the whipping boys for too long.

Sorry for the rant, Felix. You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This COP26 and all this climate change bollox is beginning to p!ss me right off.

 

[matthew]

^^^^^^
Only just ‘beginning to p!$$ you right off’ @yellow belly ???

I’ve been p!$$ed right off with this sort of rubbish for years…

 

[Muddyroads]

Three words for you I’m afraid Felix:
Emperors New Clothes.

 

[Tim W]

A totally immoral concept IMO
But one that will be pushed as a great greenwashing opportunity ---as long as we don't expect the taxpayer to fund it i will have to put up with it i guess

 

[Muddyroads]

About the only good thing I’ve heard come out of COP26 is the regular use of the word greenwashing. Hopefully carbon credits will be seen for what they really are.

 

[Flasheart]

Looks like the new Klondike for every shyster and chancer looking to make a fast quid

 

[Wombat]

Well this thread went well

 

[Top Tip.]

Madness,they tell us we are responsible for global climate change and then try and buy our carbon off us.

 

[steveR]

I look forward to seeing a response from @Felix Wieberneit ...

I have become increasingly disinterested in answering or responding to marketing surveys in any format, without some acknowledgement of my input.

The chance to have my name in a Raffle for a 10 quid Amazon voucher doesn't crack it nowdays...

 

[topground]

Carbon credit trading sounds like the next financial scam, think Ponzi, Sub prime mortgages, PPI.
About as transparent as derivative trading and Bitcoin.