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Providing Agriculture with Access to the Carbon Markets: American Carbon Registry Agriculture and Carbon Markets: Makin

Providing Agriculture with Access to the Carbon Markets: American Carbon Registry Agriculture and Carbon Markets: Making Carbon Count June 17, 2010 Washington DC. American Carbon Registry. First U.S. private voluntary GHG registry

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Providing Agriculture with Access to the Carbon Markets: American Carbon Registry Agriculture and Carbon Markets: Makin

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  1. Providing Agriculture with Access to the Carbon Markets: American Carbon Registry Agriculture and Carbon Markets: Making Carbon Count June 17, 2010 Washington DC

  2. American Carbon Registry • First U.S. private voluntary GHG registry • Founded 1997 by Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Resources Trust • Over 30 million tons issued to date • Established industry standard for transparent on-line reporting and serialization of verified project-based offsets • Joined Winrock International in 2007 • Large variety of currently registered project types: • Forestry, livestock manure, landfill gas, wastewater treatment, carbon capture & storage, industrial gas substitution, fugitive methane in oil & gas sector, transportation efficiency

  3. Winrock carbon expertise • Internationally recognized team of AFOLU carbon experts • Long history of expertise: designed methodologies for earliest REDD projects (e.g. Noel Kempff and Rio Bravo) • Major contributor to 5 IPCC reports, methods manuals, and the like • Member of CDM EB Afforestation/Reforestation Working Group • Board member now Executive Secretary of UNFCCC • Terrestrial carbon analyses, protocols, methodologies, methods manuals for – • US EPA, US Forest Service, USDOE 1605(b), USAID, World Bank, International Tropical Timber Organization • Two DOE Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships • EPRI and electric utilities • CDM, ACR, CCAR, CCBA, RGGI, VCS

  4. Protocol Development Process • ACR publishes general and sector-specific standards • Flexibility in methodology choice • Use ACR-published methodology • Use approved CDM methodology (as applicable) • Propose/modify existing methodology • Submit new methodology for approval • Public consultation and blind scientific peer review of all standards and methodologies • Shortest time to market and lowest cost • Emphasis on scientific rigor • Balance environmental integrity with commercial flexibility

  5. Recent and Forthcoming Standards, Methodologies and Tools

  6. N2O from Fertilizer in the U.S. • Analysis of 129 M acres wheat, corn and cotton in 31 states • 61 M t CO2e emissions (0.12 - 1.45 tCO2e /ac.yr) • 70% corn, 25% wheat, 5% cotton • Analysis includes direct and indirect emission estimates • Investigated several models • Takes into account fertilizer quantity& type, soil texture. drainage, pH, soil C, climate (Pearson et al. 2010 with support from Packard Foundation)

  7. N2O Methodology Development • Based on first phase of work—concluded for project scale need to use well parameterized and calibrated process model: • DNDC model is peer reviewed, highly verified, and widely used • Estimates direct N2O emissions from fertilizer, and indirect emissions from nitrate leaching and ammonia volatilization • Can be used to estimate baseline and with-project N2O emissions due to changes in fertilizer type, quantity, timing, placement • Accounts for site-specific and temporal factors • Data-intensive but rigorous results; cost-effective for aggregated projects

  8. Future Work in Ag Space • Agricultural Sector Standard • Integrated Improved Grazing Land Management • Soil carbon enhancement, enteric methane, manure management • Agricultural soil carbon • Reducing N2O emissions from poultry operations • Reducing CH4 emissions from rice operations • Australia: rangeland management/holistic grazing, fallow crop and residue retention, fertilizer application • China: enhancing grassland productivity and reducing livestock methane emissions

  9. Further Information Nicholas Martin Chief Technical Officer, American Carbon Registry nmartin@winrock.org www.americancarbonregistry.org (703) 842-9500

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