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Making Sense of Carbon Offsets
- 1. Making Sense
of
Carbon Offsets
Ewan O’Leary
Offset Collective, Inc.
18th June, 2008
- 5. 2,983
MtCO2e
(World Bank)
20.4
Metric Tons/ yr
(EIA)
= 475 Trees
(for 10 years)
EPA
- 6. “One carbon offset represents the
reduction of one metric ton of
carbon dioxide, or its equivalent in
other greenhouse gases.” -
Wikipedia
- 9. Value the Priceless
3. Issue permits
4. Reduce the cap
5. Trade!
Can we scale?
Sightline Institute
- 11. LULUCF
REDD
Popsets?
Renewables
200+ Methane
project types
- 14. Important!
• Transparent
• Verifiable
• Valid
• Permanent
• Vintage
- 16. Some Variations
• Geography
• Project Type
• Co-benefits
Gold Standard
VER
CDM VCS
CCX
JI
Green‐E
- 17. Does Will it Work?
• Scale
• Collaboration
• Effectiveness
$43-Trillion US
(opportunity IEA)
- 19. Caveats
3. All your tree are belong to us
4. Is it just me or is this lifeboat leaky?
5. Death and taxes