SOIL CARBON AND CLIMATE CHANGE
NEWS
From
Consortium for Agricultural
Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases
(CASMGS)
http://soilcarboncenter.k-state.edu
Charles W. Rice, K-State
Department of Agronomy, National CASMGS Director
(785) 532-7217 cwrice@ksu.edu
Scott Staggenborg, K-State Department
of Agronomy (785) 532-7214 sstaggen@ksu.edu
Steve Watson, CASMGS
Communications (785) 532-7105 swatson@oznet.ksu.edu
No. 40
* Meetings To
Be Held On Carbon Credits For No-till, New Grasslands In
*
National:
* CASMGS Forum December 15-16 At
* Regional Clean Energy
Partnership Established In The
International:
* Arctic Climate Report
Released
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Meetings
To Be Held On Carbon Credits
For
No-till, New Grasslands In
Producers and landowners in
The meetings are sponsored by the Kansas Coalition for
Carbon Management, an organization consisting of Kansas Resource Conservation
and Development Councils (RC&Ds), K-State Research and Extension, several
The pilot program is being offered by the Chicago Climate
Exchange (CCX), a voluntary, multi-sector market for reducing and trading
greenhouse gas emissions. The program is being administered by the Iowa Farm
Bureau, serving as the “aggregator” -- an entity that acts as a middleman
between the CCX and producers/landowners. An aggregator pools many separate
parcels of qualified acreage into one large block for purposes of carbon credit
trading on the CCX. An aggregator working with the CCX must meet some rather
sizable minimums in terms of net worth and assets, and the Iowa Farm Bureau is
one of the few agricultural entities in the
At the educational meetings, K-State Research and Extension personnel will explain the basic concepts of carbon sequestration. “We’ll explain what carbon sequestration is, why it’s important, and how it can help reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere while improving soil and water quality. We’ll also explain what practices producers can use to increase carbon sequestration in their soils,” said Chuck Rice, K-State professor of agronomy and national director of the Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS).
RC&D personnel will then explain the pilot program being
offered by CCX and administered by the Iowa Farm Bureau. In this program,
producers or landowners can make an application to contract with the Iowa Farm
Bureau to sell carbon credits for them on the CCX exchange. The acreage
eligible for this program includes no-till in the eastern half of
There are some requirements made of those who sign these
contracts, which will be explained at the meetings. Payments for carbon credits
are not established in the contract, said David Miller, with the Iowa Farm
Bureau. The payment will depend on the price on the CCX board at the time the
credits are sold by Miller. Payments have been averaging anywhere from $0.50 to
$1.00 per acre per year, but this fluctuates. A maximum of about 150,000 acres
can still be contracted in this pilot project between now and April, 2005. More
than 80,000 acres are already under contract in
Dates and locations for the carbon credit pilot project
meetings in
-- Steve Watson swatson@oznet.ksu.edu
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Meeting
Dec. 14
The Kansas Coalition for Carbon
Management (KCCM) will meet on
David Miller, Iowa Farm Bureau,
will be attending the meeting. This will be a planning session for the carbon
credit educational programs for
The KCCM is looking for partners
to promote these carbon credit informational programs to be held in January and
February.
If you have any questions about
this meeting, please phone Gary Satter
at 785-945-6292.
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CASMGS
Forum Dec. 15-16
at
A CASMGS Forum titled “Carbon
Sequestration: Opportunities in the Eastern Cornbelt” will be held December 15-16
in
-- Andrea Bongen, CASMGS, Agronomy
Dept.,
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Regional
Clean Energy Partnership
established in the
Several businesses in
The CEP set a goal of
offsetting at least 10,000 megawatt-hours of electricity through clean energy
purchases and another 2,500 megawatt-hours through energy efficiency by July
2006.
For more information, see:
http://www.cleanenergypartnership.org
-- PointCarbon,
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ARCTIC CLIMATE REPORT RELEASED
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
has been released. A summary of the report is available at:
In the report, eight nations
with Arctic territory agreed to fight glacial melting and other effects of
climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any specific steps
to counter global warming.
The Arctic Council includes the
-- Steve Watson
<swatson@oznet.ksu.edu>
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
The 2004 CO2 Conference and EOR
Carbon Management Workshop
For more information, see:
http://www.spe-pb.org/co2_conference/index.asp
CASMGS Forum
Carbon Sequestration:
Opportunities in the
For more information, see:
http://www.agry.purdue.edu/soils/CASMGSforum.htm
Climate Change Risks &
Opportunities: Learning from the Leaders
For details, see: http://www.ceepinc.org
Chapman Conference on the
Science and Technology of Carbon Sequestration
For more information see:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/cc05acall.html
Carbon Market Insights 2005
For more information, see: http://www.pointcarbon.com/article.php?articleID=3838&categoryID=141
USDA Greenhouse Gas Symposium
For more information, contact Chuck Rice cwrice@ksu.edu
See:
http://soilcarboncenter.k-state.edu/conference
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