The idea of funding small-scale renewable energy projects in non-Annex I countries is partly to encourage their energy infrastructure to develop along the lines of distributed generation, rather than the inefficient and fossil-fuel-heavy centralised system we have (and probably ought to be moving away from). So while it's true that increasing prosperity will probably increase emissions, there could be long-term environmental benefits.
The trouble with sequestration by forestry is that there's a tendency to grow monocultures of fast-growing species, which are not very biodiverse and have little merit beyond locking up the carbon as long as they stand. The trouble with geological carbon sequestration is that it's basically sticking CO2 in the ground and hoping it stays there (nobody is very sure whether this hope is justified).
Um, sorry, this is shop talk for me - the reason I replied on the blog (which didn't take my name for some reason) was so as not to clutter up this lj...
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Date: 2006-12-07 09:26 am (UTC)The trouble with sequestration by forestry is that there's a tendency to grow monocultures of fast-growing species, which are not very biodiverse and have little merit beyond locking up the carbon as long as they stand. The trouble with geological carbon sequestration is that it's basically sticking CO2 in the ground and hoping it stays there (nobody is very sure whether this hope is justified).
Um, sorry, this is shop talk for me - the reason I replied on the blog (which didn't take my name for some reason) was so as not to clutter up this lj...