Can you actually believe that there is a market price for carbon ?!
To explain it in very simple terms, if I own an industry that is legally allowed to emit only 100 units of carbon when it actually emits 200 units (this is called a carbon source), then either I have to invest in reducing this emission or I invest in afforestation (trees consume CO2, remember ? This acts as a carbon sink) such that the 100 units of carbon are ''absorbed''. This would be applicable to all carbon sources - be it an industry, a car or a house. This concept was discussed and it took shape way back in 2006 but implementing it hasn't been quite easy.
And in the meanwhile, international trading of carbon is already gaining momentum....mainly because there are certain areas that are industrialized and certain that are purely vegetated. So the idea is for those who have excess carbon credits to sell it to those who have few or none.
The other side of this issue is knowing and determining the usability of an area as a carbon sink with a certain accuracy. This depends on the amount of vegetation or what is known as biomass. In simple terms, it is plant matter. Determining the biomass in a region would mean knowing the density as well as type of vegetation - types of trees, their height etc. This is one of the objectives globe monitoring satellites are trying to accomplish today, for the sake of the earth, let's hope they soon succeed.
Water has a market price, carbon has one now, wonder when we would start paying for oxygen too....
Timely Post..
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//Water has a market price, carbon has one now, wonder when we would start paying for oxygen too....//
True.. few years before who would have thought water will be a billon $ industry?? soon we will all be carrying a O2 cylinder on our back!!!
@Bharath
ReplyDeletewhat you said is exactly the reason why there has been difficulty in implementing it in the last 3 yrs.
and not just 02 cylinders - Gucci, Armani and the whole gang will team up with Apple, Philipps and their gang and come up with miniature fashionable ways since a bulky cylinder is not/will not be in style!
//what you said is exactly the reason why there has been difficulty in implementing it in the last 3 yrs.//
ReplyDeleteThats why i wrote it.. even though the responsibility has to be individual, the "so called" developed countries haven't showed any marked improvements in this 3years.. Happy that some little seriousness is shown this time but the urgency is not there. May be once Maldives goes under water these ppl will realize..