Class on Carbon Credit Payments

Class on “Carbon Credit Payments for Wooded and Agricultural Properties”

Location:
UMN-Extension Douglas County Service Center Building
720 Fillmore Street
Alexandria, MN

This class is intended to educate landowners and the public about carbon credits payments. Farmers and grassland or woodland owners have an opportunity to receive payments for conservation tillage methods or recent plantings of perennial grass and trees by selling carbon credits through the Chicago Climate Exchange. The carbon credits are purchased by carbon-emitting companies to offset their emissions through carbon sequestration practices.

Carbon can be stored in the soil, wetlands and permanent grass or tree plantings. Carbon sequestration or “holding” helps reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, which is one of several greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. Currently, carbon credit payments are being offered to low-till planted crop fields, new grassland, tree plantings and existing sustainably-managed forests. There are also carbon payments for on-farm methane digesters.

In this class, participants will 1) learn more about how to qualify for carbon credit payments of their forest, tree plantations, grassland and wetland areas, and 2) understand and learn recent developments in the carbon credit market.

Participants attending the Cloquet session may opt to come at noon, no additional cost, to attend an online session on Property Taxes and Minnesota Family Forest.

This is a Woodland Advisor elective class. The public is invited to attend. Woodland Advisor is a program of the Minnesota Forestry Association, University of Minnesota Extension, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry.

The cost of attending this class is $20. This class has a maximum capacity of 30 participants. Pre-registration is required.

To register for this class visit:
http://cfc.cfans.umn.edu/wa/ or contact Sue Crotty at 888-241-0720 or crott012@umn.edu

This class will also be offered in Cloquet, MN on Feb. 16, 2010 at 2:00-4:00 p.m.: Cloquet Forestry Center Library, 175 University Road.