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Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry
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Photo collage of carbon sinks in agriculture and forestyTransaction Costs for Projects

Transaction costs refer to the costs associated with assembling, quantifying, recording and verifying the carbon sequestration or other greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of the project, and offering these GHG benefits as credits to a buyer who wants to offset their GHG emissions.

There are currently a limited number of publicly available references that estimate the transaction costs of agricultural and forestry GHG mitigation projects:

 
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