Opinion: Factsheet addresses carbon credits, “cow tax”

Several of our campus-based faculty who conduct research on feedlot engineering have publish a new factsheet “Carbon Credits from Livestock Production” numbered G1962. (Online at http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/sendIt/g1962.pdf)
I’m not sure I agree with all of the statements after having worked with a team to conduct 14 Carbon Credit workshops in the last year, but it addresses most things about carbon credits including the “cow tax,” the fact that the Chicago Climate Exchange is only offering about 26 cents per metric ton of carbon right now, and the fact that a number of legislative proposals are in the mill to basically make carbon sequestration mandatory rather than a good stewardship practice that pays.

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Posted on January 13, 2010 · in USA

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