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Documents, Data, and Code. The NCX Methodology For Improved Forest Management (IFM) Through Short-Term Harvest Deferral.
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Public Comment: 188 (Jim Hourdequin) #188

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ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

Commenter Organization: The Lyme Timber Company

Commenter: Jim Hourdequin

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: Tonne-Year Accounting (TYA):

Comment: Tonne-Year Accounting (TYA): TYA has merit as an accounting and financing tool, however, I do not believe that TYA should accommodate short-term activity periods as proposed.

Proposed Change: No Proposed Change

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

NCX response: A tonne-year is simply a unit of carbon account like a kilowatt hour is to a kilowatt for electricity, a unit of volume over time. While tonne-year accounting may not be used widely today in the voluntary carbon market, it has been supported as an alternative to traditional carbon accounting in the scientific literature for many years. One cannot adequately know the full benefit of a solution without adding in the time or duration term. Fundamentally, tonne-year accounting allows for the delivery of realized impact, not presumed future impact on timescales incongruent with the variability of natural systems. Furthermore, tonne-year accounting allows the direct comparison of benefits of different carbon offsets approaches over many different time scales and technologies.