Headline : Comment to USDA on Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program

Read more from the original article on here at www.iatp.org.

---

No. of Paragraph 13

Land Stewardship Project, Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Food and Water Watch, and the National Family Farm Coalition 

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Land Stewardship Project, Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Food and Water Watch and the National Family Farm Coalition welcome the opportunity to respond to the USDA’s request for information for a proposed Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program.

When the Growing Climate Solutions Act was debated in Congress, our organizations opposed its passage and signed onto a letter with over 220 groups in opposition.1 We believe voluntary carbon markets are fundamentally inconsistent with the latest climate science. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its Sixth Assessment report that fossil fuel emissions are not offset by land-based emissions sequestration on a one-to-one ratio.2 Indeed, peer-reviewed climate science modelers report an accelerating asymmetry between fossil fuel emissions and sequestration efficacy.3 Additionally, carbon-related offsets, such as temporary sequestration, are not consistent with non-CO2 emissions (methane and nitrous oxide) with different timescales and intensity. As a result of these climate science findings, USDA must disapprove of any protocol or technical assistance provider that states or implies in its contractual or marketing language that soil carbon sequestration projects “offset” or “manage” fossil fuel derived greenhouse gas emissions.

Unregulated voluntary markets also pose legal and economic risks to farmers that we discuss in this comment. Additionally, voluntary carbon markets have experienced widespread fraud for more than a decade, with no signs of abatement. A protocol or third-party certifier should not be eligible for listing while it is in litigation with either carbon credit buyers, intermediaries or primary producers of the carbon credits.

Read more from the original article on here at www.iatp.org.

Related Headlines : Comment to USDA on Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program (in Google.com):

Hello, below you have a "Web" tab to read more content and an "Image" tab to get related pictures

Example : Trends, Country, News, Jobs, Scholarships, Investment, Business, Politics, Adverts, Fashion, Events, Technology and more.