Planetary Emissions Management - PEM

The trouble with carbon offsets explained:
"Commercial forest carbon protocol over-credit bias delimited by zero-threshold carbon accounting" https://ecs.page.link/bC9WL.

The social value of carbon offsets cannot be realized without a full and accurate accounting of net carbon sequestration.

The carbon offset data for five widely used biometric-based commercial forest carbon protocols (CFCP) are analyzed demonstrating that they share a common feature of excluding positive values in the calculation of carbon offsets resulting in an annual median error of ~256%.

CO2 flux data show that CFCP carbon offsets exclude terms for soil carbon efflux resulting in automatic debits to offsets and over-crediting, calling into question the value of CFCP offsets in managing climate change.

The ∼two-decade tally for sale of over-credited offsets is estimated at ∼USD$15.7 billion, emphasizing the urgent need for CFCP alternatives to address offset verification and to address verifiable net-zero and carbon neutral outcomes.

Commercial forest carbon protocol over-credit bias delimited by zero-threshold carbon accounting The validity of forest carbon offsets is increasingly called into question. However, despite the use of commercial forest carbon protocols (CFCPs) for…

FOREST CARBON OFFSET OVER-CREDITING EXPLAINED. California air resources board forest carbon protocol invalidates offsets https://ecs.page.link/DL534. Direct measurement of forest carbon is needed to verify offsets. (The term "invalidation" does not apply to carbon markets.)

The Shabunda Project, DR Congo. Support communities that live in and protect the forest. NGO GIERI absl – Planetary Emissions Management https://ecs.page.link/fE8Mh
offers direct forest carbon meaurement of project hectares as payment for ecosystem services. https://ecs.page.link/S7Kfb