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Carbon Trading Concept- Enterprise Development

 

Objective:  Develop a protocol for landowners to sell carbon (environmental) credits for applying conservation practices on the land.

Environmental Defense http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm has contracted with Central NY RC&D to assist them in developing a protocol to allow landowners and farmers in the Northeast to sell carbon credits to interested buyers.  CNY RC&D is designing a procedure that would include landowners, Soil & Water Conservation Districts, USDA-NRCS, and aggregator and buyers to allow for the buying and selling of these environmental credits.  Additionally, Environmental Defense, is being assisted in adapting the Gold Standard (for measuring amounts of carbon sequestered) to the Northeast Region.

Central NY RC&D has received funding from Environmental Defense for preliminary work on developing a carbon trading concept.  It is the intention
of Central NY RC&D to accomplish various activities including establishing
a preliminary scaled project concept for the acquisition and sale of environmental (carbon) credits.  Additionally, activities will be carried out which help develop the first steps toward establishing offer sheets, and the testing of a field manual for use in determining how carbon credits are measured, accounted for and bought and sold.

 

Carbon-Trading for New York Farms and Landowners – learning the ins and outs of c-trading             
“Take action…that reward farmers and landowners for environmental stewardship” Environmental Defense

Sponsored by Central NY Resource Conservation & Development, Environmental Defense,
and the Department of Crop and Soil Science at Cornell University

Cap and Trade 101 by Stacie Edick, CNY RC&D Carbon Consultant
Cap and Trade 101.pdf

Sources and Sinks by Jeni Wightman, CNY RC&D Carbon Consultant
Wightman Sources and Sinks.pdf

Regional Greenhouse Gas Imitative by Lois New, NYS DEC
NEW  RGGI.pdf

Creating Environmental Commodities From Farming Alternatives by John Kunz, ERT
kunz.ERT Presentation 10-5-06.pdf

Benefits of Carbon Sequestration by Ted Dodge, NCOC
NCOC Overall Program.pdf

Whole Farm Planning with Carbon Credits by A. . Edward Staehr, NY FarmNet
STAEHR WFP and Carbon Credits.pdf

Patterson Family Farm Digester by Connie Patterson, Patterson Family Farm
PattersonFarms Carbon Credits.pdf

Renewable Imagery Credit by George Hoguet, Native Energy, Inc.
Hoguet_NYCU- AG Workshop.pdf

Potentional Ag in Carbon Market by Ron Rausch, NYS SWCC
RAUSCH Carbon Market.pdf

AgRefresh and Pure Farm Energy by Jack Frost, AgRefresh, Inc.
CNYRCD AgRefresh.pdf

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