12. Carbon Offsets: One Quandary After Another
Pricing Nature
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The Permanence Challenge in Forest Carbon Crediting
100 years is just the current standard convention of what counts as permanence for several different methodologies. For a forest carbon credit to represent permanent storage, you need to insure that the forest won't burn down on a wild fire or get eaten up by inva insects. Forests are dynamic systems. Fires, tornadoes, hurricanes happen. And so can you guarantee that that forest is going to remain standing for a hundred years? You can't.
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