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Mila Luleva: Why Would a Bank Care About Satellite Images? (Spoiler: It's Carbon Credits) - MBM#41

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How to Measure Carbon Removal Units

On average, we have about between 3 and 5 hectares of land per farmer. So that is between 9 to 15 carbon removal units per farmer. What's a carbon removal unit? How is that measured roughly? That is measured per ton biomass. Within a year, on average, you can generate about 3 to 5 carbon Removal Units per hectare. We do not measure carbon directly. We measure biomass from certain trees and from a plot,. And that biomass is measured in tons per kilometre. This is where we make that exception purely because farmers there have larger lands, but not larger income.

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