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very good work thank you for this illuminating video! what are your thoughts on the Artisan C-Sink by the Ithaka Institute aka. carbon removal by biochar production in low-income countries through low-tech production?

do you have any good academic books references for this topic ? thx :)

I died at the pizza review 💀

Best and most comprehensive overview I've seen on TH-cam. Good job, guy, appreciate the organized brain dump!

Thank you , very useful!

Hey Elias, thanks again for the great analysis. I’m curious about something you mentioned at minute 7:30-how do you know the project clear-cut the area specifically for the purpose of developing it? From the two images alone, I’m not sure how that conclusion can be drawn. For instance, the area could have been deforested in 2006 and used as pasture by 2010, and then the landowner might have decided to plant trees because it was more profitable. I assume you have additional evidence indicating that the clear-cutting was done with the intention to plant trees?

Great slides!! Do i have your permission to use your slide in my class with your name on it?

You are truly interesting

where is the QR? 😂 top video

Fantastic video and super helpful, thanks!

oh my god your philosophy chair and outfit is pure gold

Another great and funny video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and humor with us peasants

Whoa, whoa, whoa, foresters aren't just park rangers that wear fancy hats and chase campers around parks? 😅

I really enjoy your videos, I just took some marshmallows while watching this! And I agree in the majority of this, at some points I do not think are SO relevant. One example is adding non-native tree species in a ARR project. I guess it does make sense in a "pure" reforestation without any motivation to make profit with the forest products (nuts, fruits in general) but it doesnt make sense if the non-native tree brings finantial or ecological benefits within the systems, which are the case of agroforest systems. And totally agree with the lack of clarity of the VERRA's methodologies along the text (the sentences are sometimes very dificult to understand even if you are a native english speaker) and the equations are very VERY dificult to get, one case that I took more than a month to understand and still some uncertainties is the performance benchmark methodology in VM0047, the text brings confusion and when you believe you understood and go to the examples, you see you made all wrong! And the worst part is that the examples' values came from nothing and resulted in something, there is no a clarification of the steps needed to achieve the examples' results... Well I'm just getting this off my chest XD You always bring a nice perspective of what is going on around! Thank for making videos like this one!

In Brazil, carbon markets need to focus on forest restoration. Without restoration, there is no conservation and it encourages deforestation.

Elias, I enjoyed your video. I am a forester in Tennessee. I think your facts are a bit off about clearcutting in Tennessee. We in fact do a lot of clearcutting and we allow natural regeneration to repopulate the tree species composition. The seed source is already on the forest floor. Natural regeneration is responsible for nearly all of forest regeneration.

love your content <3 Elias

Hey mate excellent video please keep going. Would you consider making one on fire carbon projects? Those carbon projects that use prescribed burn as a method to sell carbon credits? I work as a bushfire fighter and have heard about these projects in Australia but not sure how legit they are and how they work.

Hey Elias, thanks for the video. Curious to know your take on the following: I can understand the benefit of protecting a 50 y.o. doug fir stand for 10 more years if the alternative is deforestation and land use conversion--I don't think there's any question there--but if the land's going to go back into working forest, from a carbon sequestration perspective, wouldn't it make more sense to harvest, lock up that carbon in long-lived wood products, then reestablish that forest to capture more carbon more quickly by taking advantage of the high growth rate of young stands before MAI plateaus off? Thanks!

Packed with interesting insight that could only be gained from years in the industry ... thank you Elias!

Very insightful, thank you!

Very Informative Videos! Keep up the good work.

Don’t stop🙌🙌

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An iconic video, well done. Thank you for putting this together!

What you actually should focus on is why Europeans and Americans as the biggest polluters both currently (on a per capital basis) and historically (on a cumulative basis) are allowed to do this. It is apparent that these would become colonialist projects without the CCB like and SDG impact checks - and these ensure that that doesn't happen. It is but natural justice that Europeans and Americans (the latter in particular) start paying climate reparations (which would be orders of magnitude higher if the math is done right about colonialist and globalist rapacity of the post-Columbian era) - both in the Americas, and in the rest of the world. It is disingenuous to think that communities which preserved their natural assets and contributed so much less to the Climate Crisis will not ask for continued payments (even those unlinked to any kind of offsets). Otherwise very soon the world will ask EU and US to plant in their own backyard and try achieve net zero (and simultaneously go back to stone age level life styles, so never gonna happen). The average Chinese and Indian now alive (to speak of the largest populations ~35% of humanity) - - has 14.4% and 3.3% the cumulative footprint of an American - has 27.7% and 6.3% the cumulative footprint of a (EU) European Why would these two countries even care, leave alone the footprints of LATAM or Africa which are likely also similar or smaller. This is a creation of the "west", they better start paying their dues or suffer the degradation of their profligate lifestyle (the others have less to lose). What you think is a problem - is not so - it is a feature to ensure some buy-in in the absence of many-fold more asks of reparations. You are just a scientist, the world is much more complex beyond that, and the carbon offset prices are just hilariously low, the average price of 1 ton of metallurgical coal (anthracite) equal to ~3.67 tons of CO2 is 3x that of 1 ton of CO2 in the California ETS market (on a t-CO2e basis). Not until the situation is the other way round is this "leakage" going to stop.

why not measure yearly. pay yearly incentivise yearly!

Fantastic breakdown!

"Shame on Verra for not requiring all carbon credit budgets be made public!" Open-source for the win

Great video. I am an environmental engineering grad student at stanford and this was made well. You said that wood is primarily carbon and hydrogen. 50% hydrogen. if you convert to co2 equivalents then more than the weight of the tree i(in co2 equivalents) is being stored in the tree. I think you must have meant something else as this is not possible.

Nice content, as usual. Those direct individual payments can be really hard to implement for projects with several thousands of beneficiaries though. Also, households may be lead by men who are known (in some cases) for "misspend" income. Other idea that comes to mind when talking about individual direct payments, for tree planting for instance, is rewards on "performance" or survival of trees as reference for payments' proportion. Not sure about the ethics behind it...

On mapmaking. If the data is made freely available and the algorithms that gowith them, then I think it is fine toletthe privatesector, and may mean independent third party guys make the maps. They may even make better maps using more elaborate procedures, publish the method and algo, then using much more frequent and intense field survey, check both. Standard and 'independent published', see which does better. I have far less faith in the Big institutions than you do I guess. I also like to see incentives to innovate and get better. I also want to see Africans able tomake maps. None of the institutions you mention are based in Africa .

totally agree. well put.

Really informative. And i watched till end. Now neee the QR code😂😂😂

"we need to remember that carbon credits are actually a form of natural capital extraction .... and something of commensurate value needs to be returned to the community, otherwise this is literally colonialism" is my reference of the day, thank you Elias

The additionality tool would also require a financial analysis to demonstrate that in the absence of carbon finance the plantation would not occur. I am in favor of restoration with native species and that should be promoted. Nonetheless, I've seen several examples where exotic trees monocultures (e.g. in Uganda, Colombia) did improved livelihoods and even biodiversity compared to the baseline scenario was continuation of degraded lands with soil erosion and depriving opportunities for local people....

You and those bees, man

NREF sucks wholeheartedly agree. Measure trees always. Grrat video

I can only speak for Colombia, South America. Verifiers (VVB) are 100% independent, stringent, and not associated with certifiers or registries. They are also heavily regulated by the government. Generalizing over ALL the projects just because they occurred in the USA is again detrimental to all VCM market reliability. So, I like your videos. However, these extrapolations and generalizations are damaging other projects doing even better KPIs than the USA.

Great video. Thanks, Elias, for shedding light here. Overall, NREF/FRELs bring average uncertainty levels (UL) up to 25 - 30%. That is why it is always best to survey aboveground and underground biomass. You may get UL realistically lower up to 15% and below.

Is TNC a member of Leaf Coalition ?

Great videos and lessons from the temperate forestry science and RS side. However, stating the reforestation with Eucalyptus as a case study as an exotic species in the Brazilian Amazon is doing more harm than good. You should look into Tropical Forest Ecology and re-edit and take off that part. It is a perverse incentive. Eucalyptus, as an exotic, is highly flammable, and the Amazon does not have the soil microbiota to break down their leaves when they fall, among many other ecological damages.

Excellent!

Thanks for the excellent explainer! I dig the straightforward style! How do you think ELM would impact the CDR market (1000s+ yrs permanence)? Perhaps a one-time purchase of a permanently removed tonne of C, would be less costly and require less administration than repeated purchases of 40 yr credits and therefore increase demand of CDR?

You have bad information, and are giving the wrong impression about the first Ecological Tourist Lodge in the world. Blah blah blah. That is where you get your money, right?

new subscriber here, thanks for all your explanation, helps a lot

Thanks for the great explanation. ELM seems an interesting concept and the benefits do resolve some of the heavily criticised aspects of the VCM. For big corps, this adds additional overhead esp. in terms of records management in a heavily resource and capital constrained environment. Will massively stifle adoption. Any solution to grow the VCM in a scalable and transparent manner needs to reduce the burden from the buyers of the credits not add to unfortunately (unless youre microsoft)

Hii Elias thanks for sharing your knowledge I hope if we can talk I'm interesting to know more about it

Hilarious and highly informative!