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Apparently you can get "Gold Standard Land Use and Forests" certification for your forest and sell carbon credits for $18 USD/tonne or so to polluters. https:/
by lazyjones 7y ago
Apparently you can get "Gold Standard Land Use and Forests" certification for your forest and sell carbon credits for $18 USD/tonne or so to polluters.
https://www.goldstandard.org/luf https://www.goldstandard.org/luf
Here they calculate carbon benefit for 7500 hectares in Cameroon, which appears to be ~3 million tonnes annually:
https://www.cifor.org/fctoolbox/download/Topic-4-Section-D.pdf https://www.cifor.org/fctoolbox/download/Topic-4-Section-D.p...
($7200/hectare annually seems like a lot of money to me...)
- edf13 7y agoSeems good until Carbon Credits are pulled or altered at some point in the near future due to abuse