[Stoves] [biochar] Where to discuss STOVES AND CARBON offsets and drawdown

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

This is directly relevant to the stoves group when it comes to devising program policy.

Who is doing the saving?
Who gets the money?
In what form – price subsidy?
Does the user give informed consent? (I think not!)
Is the public generally aware there exists a CDM finance mechanism in the stove programme that will reward some group with millions of $ the public will not see?
Is it ethical to make money from the savings produced others because we are ‘clever’?

Compliance costs a fortune. Was this deliberate, to benefit the auditors? Have the review mechanisms been competently reviewed to see if they are fit for purpose? What I read says they use the WBT 4.x, 3,x and the CCT 2.0 and KPT 2.0, none of which would pass a competence review. How does this affect the value of the ‘work’?

What are the institutional and reputational risks associated with using un-reviewed and/or discredited methods of performance assessment to dish out money?

Crispin


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at the risk of being way off topic - I would think the only person getting CC is the person putting it into the ground where it stays. Not later used as fuel.

Frank
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