Carbon Registries
topic on 1 show · 4 statements across 1 episodes
4 statements about Carbon Registries, every show
Orbuch: Overly conservative scientific governance breaks carbon removal project finance
“Like, loudest, most conservative scientist in the room-based governance doesn't work for this. You actually do need to make something off-takeable and contractable, and the way you do that is for these emerging more uncertain approaches, or the approaches that…”
Orbuch: Next-generation carbon registries must be buyer-funded with ex-post credit issuance
“So there's two things that change. One is that the buyer pays the registry to evaluate deliveries and two, the credits are issued after they've been delivered, not preemptively before.”
Orbuch: Legacy registry credits only vaguely corresponded to actual carbon cycles
“You need someone whose job it is, is to figure out the effect of a given thing on the carbon cycle. And we have said that the old registries played this role, and people believe they played that role, and that's what it meant for them to issue a ton. And that'…”
Orbuch: Legacy carbon registries protected brokers by pretending cheap offsets were real
“The original sin with carbon markets was this bad incentive structure encouraged by registries that weren't aligned around the problem to protect the interests of the sellers and brokers of the credits, to make them look like there are enough credits at low en…”