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Climate Change:
A Primer on Carbon Offsets
and Trading
Mark van Soestbergen
ICBE
Cypress Swamp Cafe
Dec 12, 2007
What does this Change in Climate mean?
We are here
Temperatures
are projected
to rise an
additional
2 – 5°C in the
21st Century
Summer Arctic Sea
Ice
1979
2000
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
What does this Change in Climate mean?
http://www.climatechoices.org/ne/
What does this Change in Climate mean?
“Many of the world's climate zones may disappear by 2100, leaving
new ones in their place unlike any that exist today”
“..we are going to be seeing climates that certainly are completely
outside the range of modern human experience.."
26 March Scientific American article
27 March Guardian article
27 March IOL Reuters article
Summers will be scorchers
These maps show the projected increase in average daily July heat index relative to the
present.
The largest increases are in the southeastern states, where the Canadian model projects
increases of more than 25°F.
Florida
- Reversal of summer-wet, winter-dry
- Brand new animal, plant and human disease vectors
- Sea level rise
- Super storms
Expected sea level increase 21st Century: ~ 1.2 meter
Featured, Treasure Island + 1 meter
Featured, St. Petersburg + 1.25 meter
Featured, Tampa + 1.5 meter
Yikes, Climate Change!
What to do?
Nothing
- Adapt
- Engage
-
Man invents the Kyoto Protocol!
The Kyoto Protocol (KP) sets legally binding emissions targets for a
basket of six greenhouse gases (GHG) for Annex I countries2.
Together, they must reduce their emissions by 5.2% below 1990
levels over the commitment period 2008-2012.
Rich leads, poor follows
The Kyoto Protocol allows for project-based transactions in the
form of Joint Implementation (JI) in Annex I countries, and for the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in non-Annex I countries. It
also allows for direct emission trading between Annex I countries.
JI, CDM, IET
Kingdom of Morocco
Ministry of Land-Use Management, Water and the Environment
The First Carbon Exhibition
in North Africa and Middle East Region
Djerba, 22-24 September 2004
Moroccan CDM projects
Energy Efficiency projects
faouzi senhaji
GERERE
[email protected]
CD4CDM Project
ONE-Street lighting project
Project description

Technical features :
– Installed capacity : 3 MW (15,000 x 200 W)
– Expected saving : 3 GWh / yr
(200 W bulbs to replace 250 W bulbs)
– Components : 15,000 LCB of 200 W & PM

Financial issues :
– Total cost of the project : US $ 0.5 million
(Cost per bulb: US $ 27.3)
– Timing :
– Starting date : 2005
– Crediting period : 2006-2015
The first Carbon exhibition in North Africa and Middle East region – Djerba, September 22-24, 2004
Gasoline is 85.5% carbon
1 gallon of conventional gasoline becomes
172 cubic feet / 4.87 cubic meters of CO2
To sustain one person, the United States
produces 20 tonne of CO2 per year.
The atmosphere now holds 30% more
carbon than a century ago.
Human
emission rate
in billion
tC/yr
8
equilibrium
Earth
absorption rate
in billion
tC/yr
4.7
time
de-carbonization pathway
Latent atmospheric Carbon is
about 188 billion ton
Recommended links:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/products/vis/gallery/index.html
http://www.vets.ucar.edu/vg/categories/globalchange.shtml
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NPP/npp.html
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/em_cont.htm
http://climatechange.unep.net/jcm/
http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm
Mark van Soestbergen
[email protected]
352 367 1144 tel
352 335 9140 fax
Toward Climate Stability™