Subject: FW: NETL Carbon Sequestration Newsletter excerpts









Constellation Energy to Reduce Chesapeake Bay Pollution and
Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The State of Maryland, Constellation Energy,
and The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay signed a Memorandum of Agreement that
provides $300,000, funded through Constellation Energy, to the Alliance for
planting riparian forest buffers. The reforestation program will span 75 acres
over three years and will include trees appropriate for each site. It is
estimated that these trees will capture between 4 and 4.5 tons of carbon dioxide
per acre, per year. Constellation Energy will be claiming the carbon offsets
through the 1605(b) registry. Maryland DRN Press Release, May 2, 2005,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2005/050205.html



“The Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Improved
Management Practices in Norway.” This study assesses the potential of
Norwegian agricultural ecosystems to sequester carbon based on data from
long-term agronomic and land use experiments. The overall potential for soil
organic carbon (SOC) sequestration ranges from 0.6 to 1.0MMTC/yr. Of the total
potential, 59 percent is due to adoption of erosion control measures, 5.8
percent to restoration of peat lands, 21 percent to conversion to conservation
tillage and residue management, and 14 percent to adoption of improved cropping
systems. Environment, Development and Sustainability (2005) 7:161–184,
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10668-003-\
6372-6 (subscription required)



“Topsoil organic carbon storage of China and its loss by
cultivation.” The study found that the mean topsoil soil organic carbon (SOC)
density of China was lower than the world average value. Therefore, China may
be considered as a country with low SOC density and may have great potential for
C sequestration under well defined management. Biogeochemistry (2005) 74:
47–62,
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10533-004-\
2222-3 (subscription required)



“Outsourcing forests to India.” Article discusses how
farmers in Maharashtra, India will benefit from carbon credit trading following
the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. A non-governmental organization, Friends of
Carbon (FoC), has brought together 5,000 farmers to exploit the option, which
permits a developed country to meet part of its targeted emission cuts by
funding tree plantations in developing countries like India, for carbon
sequestration. Says Shekhar Kadam, who is in charge of the financial and
commercial aspects of FoC, “Plantations are one of the best solutions to
curbing damage from GHG emission.” Kadam claims that the mango tree is one of
the best varieties. The current average rate for a tonne of carbon is around
$4. The Times of India, July 25, 2005,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1182451.cms

Subject: FW: NETL Carbon Sequestration Newsletter excerpts









Constellation Energy to Reduce Chesapeake Bay Pollution and Offset
Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The State of Maryland, Constellation Energy, and The
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay signed a Memorandum of Agreement that provides
$300,000, funded through Constellation Energy, to the Alliance for planting
riparian forest buffers. The reforestation program will span 75 acres over
three years and will include trees appropriate for each site. It is estimated
that these trees will capture between 4 and 4.5 tons of carbon dioxide per acre,
per year. Constellation Energy will be claiming the carbon offsets through the
1605(b) registry. Maryland DRN Press Release, May 2, 2005,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/pressrelease2005/050205.html



“The Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Improved
Management Practices in Norway.” This study assesses the potential of
Norwegian agricultural ecosystems to sequester carbon based on data from
long-term agronomic and land use experiments. The overall potential for soil
organic carbon (SOC) sequestration ranges from 0.6 to 1.0MMTC/yr. Of the total
potential, 59 percent is due to adoption of erosion control measures, 5.8
percent to restoration of peat lands, 21 percent to conversion to conservation
tillage and residue management, and 14 percent to adoption of improved cropping
systems. Environment, Development and Sustainability (2005) 7:161–184,
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10668-003-\
6372-6 (subscription required)



“Topsoil organic carbon storage of China and its loss by
cultivation.” The study found that the mean topsoil soil organic carbon (SOC)
density of China was lower than the world average value. Therefore, China may
be considered as a country with low SOC density and may have great potential for
C sequestration under well defined management. Biogeochemistry (2005) 74:
47–62,
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10533-004-\
2222-3 (subscription required)



“Outsourcing forests to India.” Article discusses how farmers in
Maharashtra, India will benefit from carbon credit trading following the signing
of the Kyoto Protocol. A non-governmental organization, Friends of Carbon
(FoC), has brought together 5,000 farmers to exploit the option, which permits a
developed country to meet part of its targeted emission cuts by funding tree
plantations in developing countries like India, for carbon sequestration. Says
Shekhar Kadam, who is in charge of the financial and commercial aspects of FoC,
“Plantations are one of the best solutions to curbing damage from GHG
emission.” Kadam claims that the mango tree is one of the best varieties.
The current average rate for a tonne of carbon is around $4. The Times of
India, July 25, 2005, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1182451.cms