Carbon dioxide, deciding for our future
Folke Günther, Holon Ecosystem Consultants, Lund, Sweden, February 26, 2008

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I am also trying to describe the benefits of buried charcoal to counteract the ‘carbon dioxide cloud’ (see my blog), why I am not the least surprised of the reaction of ignorance on he issue. I have been around here in Sweden, trying to lift the mental fog, and have been met with the same surprised skepticism (..if that is so good, why have nobody done it before?)
However, seen from the other side, Lester Brown is quite right. Diminishing the carbon dioxide emissions by 80% to 2020 is just about right (to abot 1 Gt/year). But it must be combined with a massive sequestration (to about 2 Gt annually) ,thus creating a net diminishing of the ‘carbon cloud’ by about 1 Gt per year . For further details, see my blog.

Download the ppt- presentation that seems to be rather clarifying. The drawback is that if takes about one hour to convince a person with it.
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Also by Folke Gunther, "Carbon sequestration for everybody: decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide, earn money and improve the soil," March 27, 2007, attached.

Climate Change/Pro-Natura
Guy F. Reinaud, Pro-Natura International, November 24, 20007

Dear Friends and Members of Pro-Natura,

The importance of spreading knowledge about climate change is emphasized by the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore. GreenFacts* is pleased to contribute, in collaboration with Pro-Natura International, to disseminating the most recent scientific findings on the subject by publishing a faithful, reader-friendly summary of the latest IPCC assessment report (see attached document).

Heartiest congratulations from the Pro-Natura team to Jean Jouzel, Vice-President of the IPCC.

We are also happy to announce that, through the GoodPlanet Action Carbon programme, Air France is now offering passengers the opportunity to offset their CO2 emissions with carbon credits from Pro-Natura’s Green charcoal project in Senegal.
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UN Climate Change Conference: Biochar present at the Bali Conference
Christoph Steiner, to Terra Preta Discussion List, November

I was hoping that biochar finds a hearing at the UN climate change conference in Bali. I am very glad that biochar got two hours in Bali:
December 13, 13:00-15:00, Bali International Convention Center
biochar.org Events

Theme UNCCD: Sustainable Land Management for Adaptation to Climate Change

Welcome Statement: Executive secretary of the UNCCD

Keynote Statement: President of the UNCCD COP

Presenters:

* Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Zech; University of Bayreuth


An overview of naturally occurring soil carbon, its depletion and how to redress this trend. The origin of Terra Preta soils and how their replication could have the most significant impact on the achievement of the targets of the World Food Summit.

* Dr. Christoph Steiner; University of Georgiai

Soil charcoal amendments: maintaining soil fertility, reducing soil vulnerability, and establishing a carbon sink

* Goodspeed Kopolo; UNCCD

Harnessing the results in a sustainable loop that enhances adaptation to and mitigation of climate change effort in synergistic ways that also help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

* Alejandro Kilpatrick (tbc); Global Mechanism

Possible Funding sources for soil charcoal amendment programmes, and for mitigation of land degradation in general.

Rethinking biochar Will amending soil with charcoal make it more fertile and combat global warming?
Environmental Science and Technology, Technology News, August 1, 2007

Simpler Way To Counter Global Warming Explained: Lock Up Carbon In Soil And Use Bioenergy Exhaust Gases For Energy
Science Daily News, May 12, 2007

Writing in the journal Nature, a Cornell biogeochemist describes an economical and efficient way to help offset global warming: Pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by charring, or partially burning, trees, grasses or crop residues without the use of oxygen.

Commentary: A Handful of Carbon
Johannes Lehmann in Nature Magazine, Vol 447, 10 May 2007

Locking carbon up in soil makes more sense than storing it in plants and trees that eventually decompose, argues Johannes Lehmann. Can this idea work on a large scale?