National Carbon Offset Coalition, Inc.

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National Carbon Offset Coalition, Inc.
Carbon Credits . . . A Unique Market-Based
Approach

• Tribes Involvement in Carbon Sequestration

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National Carbon Offset Coalition

• Seven non-profit resource conservation
  organizations,
• Based in Butte, Montana.
• The program offers corporations a cost-effective
  way to achieve their carbon dioxide emission
  reduction goals.
• Carbon credit transfer is a new marketable
  commodity that can provide landowners and
  communities with a new potential source of
  revenue.
• Funded by both the State of Montana and the
  Department of Energy

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Grant funds provide . . .

• the ability to test all components of the
  proposed trading infrastructure which include
• Handbook functionality
• Planning forms access and use
• Listing agreements and contracts functionality
  for various landowner categories, market
  concerns, and federal and state carbon
  registries.
• Portfolio functionality, maintenance and
  marketing issues
• Implementation timelines and staff
  responsibilities
• Project measuring, monitoring, verification
  implementation and reporting criteria
• Financial feasibility and cost breakout of
  trading infrastructure components
• Final design of proposed portfolio auditing and
  verification processes

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What needs to be Accomplished
During the next three years, NCOC and the DOE
Partnership need to acquire

• Two 12,500 ton portfolios (tribal private
  landowners).
• Carbon sequestration strategy for Sempra and
  25,000 metric tons of credits.

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NCOC Organizational Chart
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So, what is the science behind all of this?
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Major Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
NCOCs principal Green House Gas focus

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Methane (CH4)
• Nitrous Oxide (N2O)

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What is Carbon Sequestration?Capture and storage
of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases that would
otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere

• Capture can occur
• at the point of emission
• when absorbed from air
• Storage locations include
• underground reservoirs
• dissolved in deep oceans
• converted to solid material
• trees, grasses, soils, or algae

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NCOCs Carbon Credit

• The quantity of carbon offered in a trade for
  example, the amount claimed to be sequestered in
  soil or trees.
• Carbon sequestration units (CSUs). Equal to one
  metric ton of atmospheric CO2 reduced or avoided
  from an agreed baseline amount. To create a CSU,
  the amount of CO2 must be measured, verified, and
  registered.
• One ton of carbon contains 3.67 tons of
  co2equivalent (atmospheric CO2).

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Needed Land Use Categories

• Reforestation Lands previously forested, but
  recent natural and/or artificial reforestation
  efforts have failed
• Afforestation Establishing trees on sites not
  naturally forested but capable of supporting
  forest stands
• Agroforestry Field and farmstead windbreaks,
  riparian forest buffers, hybrid poplar plantations

• Fire Rehabilitation Forested lands destroyed by
  wildfire.
• Cropland Minimum till to no-till and reseeding
  of grass on marginal croplands
• The cropland pilot will have three key
  inter-related dimensions, resulting in
  geographically constrained field tests in north
  central Montana and broad market exploration
  activity across the four-state region

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Sequestration Potential Big Sky Region
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NCOC Combines . . .
Science
Policy
Market
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Science . . .

• Member of the Big Sky Regional DOE Partnership
  which includes universities, national research
  laboratories
• Designing standards protocols to meet emerging
  markets and 1605b requirements

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Policy . . .

• Tracking the rules and guidelines for 1605b
  registry
• Providing public comment
• Developing climate trust
• Reviewing state registries
• Developed standards/protocols
• Updating USDA COMET Model

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Market . . .

• Working with emerging markets (Chicago Climate
  Exchange Natsource)
• Direct trades through buyers
• Working with landowners, Tribal governments,
  others to design contracts

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Project Requirements

• Landowner desire
• Initial Proposal for Project
• Listing Agreement with NCOC
• NCOC Builds portfolio/seeks buyer
• Buyer makes offer
• NCOC and landowner accept offer
• Project Plan completed
• Contract completed

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NCOC Website

• NCOC Carbon Sequestration Handbook
• NCOC Portfolio Standards
• Initial Proposals
• Conservation Tillage
• Biomass Fuel Offsets
• Forest Management
• Afforestation
• Agroforestry
• Grass Planting
• Grazing Management
• Small Forest Projects

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Current Tribal Efforts

• Nez Perce Tribe 5200 metric tons entered onto
  CCX via NCOC Tribal Portfolio
• Fort Belknap Reforestation Proposal submitted
  to the Oregon Climate Trust
• Navajo Afforestation Initial Proposal is
  underdevelopment

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Overall Benefits to Buyers

• Industry may find that purchasing CSUs as an
  offset for their
• emissions is an economical way to meet their
  emission reduction needs.
• Enhances the health and sustainability of the
  ecosystem.
• Offers participating corporations a
  cost-effective way to produce enough CSUs to
  achieve their carbon dioxide emission reduction
  goals.
• NCOC provides the buyer with a Certificate of
  Assurance containing final measurements,
  conditions, commitments, etc. meeting buyer
  demands.
• Companies can take voluntary steps now to
  establish their own emissions credit programs for
  greenhouse gases. By doing so, they can
  demonstrate their commitment to reducing carbon
  dioxide emissions and best position themselves to
  have their reductions recognized whenever a
  formalized program is introduced.
• Creates positive public relations. 

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NCOCs Benefits to Landowners

• Landowners gain the practical experience in
  producing carbon credits for future markets.
• Flexible contractual agreements ranging from
  five (5) years to long-term 80 years.
• Carbon sequestration credits offer landowners a
  new potential source of revenue.
• Enhances the health and sustainability of the
  ecosystem.

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For more information contact

• NATIONAL CARBON OFFSET COALITION
• 305 W. Mercury, Room 408
• Butte, Montana 59701
• (406) 723-NCOC
• (6262)
• Email info_at_ncoc.us
• www.ncoc.us