[talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Dion Moult]

I don't want to discourage from the local woodlands initiative, I think it's absolutely great to do.

I did want to being up the Cool Earth charity[1], which has been through lots of independent evaluation as to their effectiveness. Independent analysis suggests that their rate is at 0.71 USD per tCO2eq[2], but on their website it seems to be higher, approximately 2AUD per tCO2eq.

If you wanted to consider more than carbon... I have done some really ballpark explorations here:

https://thinkmoult.com/effective-altruism-living-net-positive-life.html

Great initiative!

1. https://www.coolearth.org/
2. https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/#3-overall-evaluation

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On 8 Aug. 2019, 5:47 pm, John Bryant wrote:

> Great work Adam! I agree this looks like a worthwhile program.
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 09:45, Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:
>
>> Fantastic work on this Adam. Parks Victoria would be a wonderful organisation to fund offset with. Much better than a Cayman Island registered organisation with plantations in the Amazon. Hopefully the costs of this approach are within the real of possibility for us.
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:26, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hey folks
>>>
>>> waking this conversation up again - there’s some interest from Parks Victoria around applying funding from a GHG offset scheme to restore yellow box woodland - which is direct, local and observable.
>>>
>>> I started making some calculations here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGcpUCO6pHhKutoCh8qh1FcIrnXjyYQ_kOEIf5nCnGw/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> …using the ICAO flight emissions calculator. So far we’re up to about 48t CO2 based on my assumptions around who comes from where - and no additions from south pacific islands yet. If you have any input on those numbers please add comments.
>>>
>>> Next step is to work more on how much money is appropriate for a programme to sequester 48t of CO2 based on existing offset programmes. Then, have a chat with Parks Victoria around how far that amount goes.
>>>
>>> I’ll add those estimates in the same sheet.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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