Now we will learn how tree planting and the carbon market provide cash for TIST farmers. First you will learn about carbon.
What is Carbon?
Carbon is all around us, yet we can't see it, touch it, or taste it - so what is it? This video explains what carbon is and how it is essential to all life on Earth. You will also learn why burning fuel is harmful to the environment and contributes to climate change. Understanding this relationship is important to understanding the TIST Program and why tree planting is so important to all that TIST does.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
What is the Carbon Market?
Join a Small Group
TIST Farmers join a small group with the goal of helping the environment by planting and maintaining trees.
Sign GHG Contract
The TIST Small Group signs a Green House Gas, or GHG, contract with TIST’s parent company, called Clean Air Action Corporation (CAAC).
Plant and Maintain Trees
With this contract, the Small Group agrees to a 60 year contract where trees are to be planted and maintained for at least 30 years, and CAAC agrees to share in the profits from the tree planting.
Measure the Trees
After the trees grow and mature for a period of 3-5 years, a TIST staff member will visit the Small Group and and count the trees and measure the tree growth.
Calculating Carbon
By measuring the trees, TIST can calculate the amount of carbon the trees have taken out of the air. This allows CAAC to calculate the carbon sequestered by those trees.
Verify the Carbon
TIST hires third party verifiers to make sure this measurement is accurate.
Carbon Credit
Clean Air Action Corporation then creates a carbon credit from the amount of carbon trees have taken out of the air.
Selling the Carbon Credit
Companies then buy this carbon credit from Clean Air Action Corporation.
Sharing Profits with Farmers
Clean Air Action Corporation then shares the profit from the sale of the carbon credit with the TIST farmers, as agreed in the GHG contract.
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