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Comment 3 for March 22, 2016 Cap-and Trade Workshop on Sector-Based Offsets (sectorbased1-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Thomas
Last Name: Vessels
Email Address: tvessels@vesselscoalgas.com
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Subject: Public Comments for Sector Based Offsets
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Recommendation: All initiatives, proposals, projects should be required to estimate their repair to climate damage and how many tonnes of Carbon Dioxide equivalent they will reduce in the next 20 years. Specifically adopt the GWP factors from latest scientific study rather than the UN or USEPA factors. It is an artifact of the early years of the climate change debate that we still use 100 years as the reference time frame for climate policies. The effect this has on the public mindset is to give the impression that climate change is a distant future's problem. The next 20 years are more critical. Science is ahead of policy. At the Global Methane Forum in Georgetown, March 29, 2016 Drs. Drew Shindell and Johan Kuylenstierna jointly presented that reducing methane and black carbon in the atmosphere have the greatest impact in the next 20 years. For example they have calculated the GWP for methane over a 20 year period to be around 100 and over a 100 year period 40. If we adopt a 20 year time period resources of all types will naturally move towards earlier cost effective solutions.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-04-08 12:23:48
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