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The study is viewed as a vital step toward determinin g how to calculate carbon credits forany cap-and-trade program. The federall government would first set a limit on the volumew of emissions that can be produced acrossthe U.S. in a give n year and then grantf tradablefederal permits, called “allowances,” to coveree entities for each ton of CO2 emitted. The intentionj is to encourage firmse to discover cheap methods to cut emission whils allowing those with no easy mean to reduce pollution to buy The system could allow landowners to sell carbob credits to companies wishing to show they are makinvg efforts to reduce theircarbonn footprint.
This comes on the heel of a passaged of a climate change bill bythe U.S Housew Energy and Commerce Committee requiring a 17 percent reductiojn in greenhouse emission by 2020 and to set up a cap-and-trade The bill is expected to come before the U.S. Houser by late summer. “When we’rre done setting everything up, we will be able to take data from the begin to understand whethet this ecosystem isstorinfg carbon, releasing carbon or doing both under varioux environmental conditions,” said Ross Hinkle, UCF biologist and professofr on the project, in a prepared statement.
“Then we can develo p a reliable, quantifiable model for calculating carbon storage innatural ecosystems,” Disney Wilderness, locateds in southwestern Osceola County, was originallh created in 1993 to mitigate wetland lost to development of . Wetlands coverf about 2,550 acres and the site is home to 14 documentedr and 12 unconfirmed protected species of birdsand