Many Challenges to California’s Clearcut for the Climate Carbon Credits Scheme
Opposing the absurd idea behind offering eco-points to those who cut down forests, this Tuesday the Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal letter to stop a program granting carbon credits for clearcutting in California.
Defying all logic — and law — the California Air Resources Board has adopted a “Forest Project Protocol” that forms the first step toward letting forest landowners collect credits for the CO2 stored in trees, even while those same landowners help destroy the climate by clearcutting big, old trees and replacing them with plantations. Not only does the process of clearcutting spew new CO2 into the air from the machines cutting, transporting, and processing the trees; it also releases CO2 already stored in the trees and soil. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/forests/clearcutting_and_climate_change/index.html
In addition Humboldt Watershed Council signed on to the following letter:
October 5, 2009
Linda Adams, Chair
Climate Action Reserve
523 W. Sixth Street, Suite 428
Los Angeles, CA 90014
Subject:Forest Project Protocol revisions and the recent Sierra
Pacific Industries-Equator LLC forest carbon transaction
Dear Secretary Adams and members of the Climate Action Reserve board:
We are writing you to express our interest in participating in the
upcoming process for revising the Forest Project Protocols (FPP),
Version 3.0, and to request that you take action on all of the
following:
(See document below for complete letter as well as media coverage of
the entire issue)
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