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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: 247 (Jonathan Pomp, CF, RPF) #247

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ncx-gitbot commented 2 years ago

Commenter Organization: Green Assets

Commenter: Jonathan Pomp, CF, RPF

2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: No Section Indicated

Comment: The core offset principle of additionality is not addressed by tonne-year accounting. For forestry projects, tonne year accounting disincentivizes long-term sustainable forest management and sound silviculture as PPs will look to complete projects under methodologies where shorter term commitments can be made without a responsibility for long-term forest conservation and management. Further, tonne-year accounting approaches appear to leave the door open for manipulation of “planned harvests,” as well as crediting for years when a harvest is not feasible or realistic.

Proposed Change: Explain how emission reductions are additional when harvest activities are merely delayed and subject to management manipulation.

ncx-gitbot commented 2 years ago

NCX response: Projects are additional when the carbon stocks in the project scenario are greater than the carbon stocks expected under the baseline scenario–this is the basis for any carbon project verified against any standard. Because additionality, and therefore, creditable carbon is dependent on an accurate baseline, eligibility is limited to forests that are truly at risk of being harvested in the next year. Deferring that harvest results in additional carbon in the landscape.