vendredi 30 juillet 2021

Capter du carbone sur les lots privés: Projet Pivot

Capter du carbone sur les lots privés
Guillaume Roy - Le Quotidien - 30 juillet 2021
En reboisant des terres en friche, en allongeant la période de récolte ou en conservant des forêts, les propriétaires forestiers québécois pourront désormais produire des crédits carbone et les vendre sur le marché volontaire, grâce à ce projet mené par ECOTIERRA, une entreprise d’économie sociale basée à Sherbrooke. Comment ça fonctionne? On compare le cours normal des choses avec un scénario où l’on peut capter plus de carbone, explique Dany Senay, ingénieur forestier et conseiller forestier stratégique du projet Pivot. La conservation intégrale des forêts permet de produire environ sept à huit crédits carbone par année dans la forêt feuillue mélangée et cinq à six crédits carbone par an en forêt boréale, soutient Dany Senay ... Pour lancer le projet, ECOTIERRA a travaillé avec Forêt Hereford pour la conservation de 850 hectares de forêt en 2018. La première vérification pour quantifier les gains carbone se fera en 2022, et les promoteurs s’attendent à produire 24 000 crédits carbone, soit l’équivalent de 6000 tonnes de GES par an.


Sherbrooke Innopole - 11 dec 2015 
Ecotierra and Hereford Forest are joining forces to launch the forest carbon project Pivot, which will generate Québec carbon credits based on forest conservation and sustainable forest management activities. It is the first group forest carbon project in Canada. Pivot In concrete terms, forest owners who choose to become involved in the project will receive financial compensation for their efforts through VCS (Verified Carbon Standard) carbon credit revenues, recognized worldwide. To do so, they will have to modify their forest management practices or create conservation zones in their forests.
Isabelle Pion - La tribune - 7 décembre 2015
Marie-Eve Lacas - Radio-Canada - 2015-12-07

lundi 5 juillet 2021

Crédits de charbon et forets/Carbon credits and forests


Emma Cotton - VTDigger - Jul 5 2021
Glebe Mountain, seated between 1,400 and 2,600 feet in elevation and surrounded by more forest, is an ideal place for wildlife to roam. It could become more important as the climate warms, sending cold-seeking animals like moose to the upper and northward reaches of Vermont’s landscape ... That’s why the Conservancy decided to purchase the 3,500-acre parcel ... The carbon market, which has existed for about a decade, allows companies, colleges and even countries to buy and sell credits with the ultimate goal of reducing carbon in the atmosphere. When an organization like the Nature Conservancy can prove that their work is reducing measurable amounts of atmospheric carbon... they are awarded credits through the American Carbon Registry, which become available for purchase.

Christine McGowan - Vermont Business Magazine - August 6, 2020
Consulting forester Charlie Hancock was instrumental in launching the Cold Hollow Carbon project in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The pilot, which is now being viewed as a model for other parts of the country, is the first aggregated parcel to be purchased on the carbon marke ...  forests collect and store different amounts of carbon at various stages of growth. While younger forests (30 to 70 years old) will have a high rate of carbon sequestration— i.e. the process of pulling carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis to support growth—a forest’s ability to store carbon increases with age, peaking at around 200 years. Estimates of the carbon stored in old-growth forests range from 100 to 120 metric tons of carbon per acre. Vermont’s forests, which were largely clear cut in the 1800s to create agricultural land, are relatively young, averaging around 100 years old, and store approximately 60-80 metric tons of carbon per acre.

Smaller Trees Stump Nature Conservancy's Carbon Project
John Dillon - VPR - Dec 11 2019 
Conservancy says its innovative plan to use a Vermont forest to help reduce greenhouse gas pollution in California did not turn out as hoped after a timber inventory showed the project was not economically feasible. The Vermont chapter of the conservancy had hoped to enroll its 5,400-acre piece of northern Franklin County into a California market aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution ... “What we found was that there just wasn't enough carbon there above the regional average to make a financially viable project,” ... the conservancy now plans to enroll the land in a separate market in which companies or individuals voluntarily buy carbon offsets.

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