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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.
Commenter Organization: Forest and Climate Policy
Commenter: Andrea Tuttle
2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: No Section Indicated
Comment: The NCX methodology fails on many dimensions to provide a meaningful carbon offset. It short cuts every fundamental principle on which forest carbon offset standards are based, leaving no margin to buffer against errors in assumptions, models, conversion factors and natural system variation. It takes the mathematical construct of tonne-year accounting (already debatable) to the extreme, applying it to the shortest possible time interval of one year.
Proposed Change: No Proposed Change