How The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed in December 2015 by the largest number of nations to ever sign any international agreement/treaty. It is intended to provide a ‘common market’ within which the sovereign nations commit to restoring, repairing, and saving the world and its climate from the ravages of the fossil fuel age. The principal problem of those emissions is the CO2, plant food, that comes from burning all that fossil carbon.
That ‘climate change’ is taking place, while resisted via political debate by some, is universally accepted by the world of science and industry. The change is taking place due to the undisputed emissions of a trillion tonnes of CO2 over the course of modern history, all of the yesterday’s of our industrial world. The environmental impact of that yesterday’s CO2 is causing ALL of today’s climate change. Our yesterday’s injected the first lethal overdose for which an antidote must now be administered. Surely this won’t be all we must do and we must also curtail repeating the trillion tonnes lethal overdose by reducing tomorrow’s CO2 emissions.
Taking charge of providing the antidote to yesterday’s CO2 is our business. To do this we have signed on to Team Nature. We restore trees and seas to be more exact. We are allies of the plant life that use the power of the sun and photosynthesis to repurpose our CO2 into new plant life.
How is this possible? It’s as easy as planting a seed, ideally of something that will grow into a great CO2 eating machine, they call these big, loving parts of nature, TREES.
The Unexpected Turn
The scale and scope of the CO2 crisis facing the world won’t be solved by growing trees alone, there simply isn’t sufficient tree-growing land available. But this must not deter us while TREES are not the perfect single silver bullet or antidote to save the world from the first deadly overdose of CO2 they can help an immense amount. Along with restoring TREES everyone must develop and deliver just about every idea possible to save the world from all of yesterday’s CO2 and tomorrow’s as well.
The Paris Agreement provides in its globally ratified form the commitment of all the world to save the world from the excesses of the past. The Accord is a treaty that has a number of facets. One is that it commits all of the 195 nations, large and small, to make a commitment to develop and deliver a nationally approved and appropriate climate action plan that is a sovereign plan but consistent with the treaty partners.
Second, the treaty ensures that the common metric, the measure of success is to be measured in tonnes of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent units) and that the CO2e that climate action delivers as a bonafide, measured, verified, and certified tonne of CO2e is interchangeable with all other nations similar proofs/currencies of success.
Here’s where the Paris Accord translates into money. The sovereign climate actions by each nation are first applied to meet the targets of their Paris Accord commitments, their share of tens of billion tonnes of CO2 emissions to be removed or prevented from being emitted into the air each year.
Those nations that do a great job and remove more than they need to meet their commitment can sell their surplus to the other nations in the Paris Accord who have been unable to meet their commitment. The carbon currency is called a carbon credit, or climate action credit, and the accord/treaty is a currency exchange treaty that guarantees every national carbon currency can be exchanged and used in other nations. The exchange rate is the price per tonne or carbon credit unit.
The sum total in cash value the Paris Accord has specified when its climate action/carbon credit markets open in January 2020 is to be many hundreds of billions of dollars rising to an estimated $3 trillion dollars each year by 2050. That’s the greatest internationally agreed to new business opportunity ever.
The Prestige Of Transformational Technology
At present technologies to meet the market are neither able to support nor sustain the climate action commitments already signed and ratified by the 195 nations. The world needs to invent more technologies. Trillions of dollars are committed in the hope it will be sufficient economic stimulus to inspire the inventions that are vital to sustaining the environment of this Blue Planet in a condition we humans are accustomed to and able to tolerate.
Planting trees is nothing new. Surely humanity has been planting trees for thousands of years. What is transformational in the TREE planting world is our new business strategies that bundle economies of scale and efficiency with other values.
Trees, as we know, don’t just grow up, get old and die. They provide a vital ecosystem service to the planet, they keep the planet cool with their shade, they help rain to penetrate into the soils where it can be stored, and they produce chemicals, the smells of trees which are critical molecules that are vital in the formation of cooling clouds. Of course, trees also provide homes and food for all manner of ‘bugs, bunnies, birds, bears, and we humans.
KlimateCoin and its core team bring together an unexpected blending of ideas, know-how, and technologies. These allow us to become a highly profitable for-profit Eco-Restoration Tree Planting business able to restore millions of hectares of European forest back to the condition of health and abundance. The ancient forests of Europe that once stood watch caring for the environment of Europe, with our help they will again.
We won’t turn back the hands of time and restore all of the 50%-60% of the lands that once were covered with ancient forests but we can restore a significant part and the best parts back to Nature.
Our TREES will be planted via public-private partnership agreements with nations of Eastern Europe to add to conservation forest preserves in the nation’s national parks. Our trees will never be harvested they will grow into self-sustaining natural forests giving back to all of Nature some portion of what mankind over the centuries has taken away. In the bargain, they will help to restore the climate of this warming planet. This work will be not a charity but a profitable business venture. It will employ thousands of people living in rural regions supplementing the meager incomes earned there.
Part of our magic in this is to combine age-old forestry knowledge with state-of-the-art leading-edge financial technology. Our FINTECH will capitalize on the very nature of growing trees that every day grows bigger and bigger as they mine industrial age carbon out of the atmosphere and repurpose that carbon into a healthy forest environment. Our FINTECH will mint this value into our KlimateCoin currency that is assured of growing in value with the passage of every day.
Read more about our KlimateCoin crypto-currency and infallible Blockchain carbon ledger and how it will empower us to use the power of TREES to save your world.