01-10-2019, 09:30 AM
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is due to decide in April whether to adopt the California Tropical Forest Standard (TFS), a controversial plan focused on protecting large forested areas through the use of carbon credits.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190109145322-qxoar/
If California wants to pay communities to preserve their tropical rainforests, why not pay landowners on Big Island - - residents, DHHL, OHA, Kamehameha Schools, etc?
It seems ideal.
We don't have to disturb or change the aina.
Trees are already in our backyard, so no problems with the NIMBYs.
It's low impact, you might say no impact, with negative carbon emissions.
Even those who don't like, or are suspicious of science and scientists will have to get awfully creative to come up with a reason to block or protest this proposal.
Let's figure out a way for Hawaii Island to get involved with carbon credits, through the California (TFS) plan, or create our own carbon project, and get paid while our trees do all the work.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190109145322-qxoar/
If California wants to pay communities to preserve their tropical rainforests, why not pay landowners on Big Island - - residents, DHHL, OHA, Kamehameha Schools, etc?
It seems ideal.
We don't have to disturb or change the aina.
Trees are already in our backyard, so no problems with the NIMBYs.
It's low impact, you might say no impact, with negative carbon emissions.
Even those who don't like, or are suspicious of science and scientists will have to get awfully creative to come up with a reason to block or protest this proposal.
Let's figure out a way for Hawaii Island to get involved with carbon credits, through the California (TFS) plan, or create our own carbon project, and get paid while our trees do all the work.
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