Fresh air in the bamboo forest sells for cash!

　　Bamboo to bamboo, mountains to mountains, far and near, endless.

Walking into Anji, Zhejiang, and being in the sea of ​​bamboo, makes people feel that their internal organs are refreshed in an instant.

　　Now, the green bamboos that are all over the mountains and plains have grown a story that sounds like a "Shirane Nights": the fresh air in the bamboo forest is sold for cash!

　　At the end of 2021, Anji Liangshan Ecological Resources Assets Management Co., Ltd., a county-owned state-owned enterprise, established the Liangshan Bamboo Forest Carbon Storage and Trading Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center"). Sign a contract with the center for forestry carbon sequestration and storage with a term of 30 years.

In the words of farmers, it is the air in the bamboo forest.

　　Bamboo is a fast-growing and regenerating plant. Bamboo that is chopped and grown and chopped again releases 35% more oxygen than forests of the same area. One bamboo can fix 6 square meters of soil, and each hectare of bamboo forest can store 1,000 tons of water. The bamboo industry Therefore, it is called the golden green industry.

　　As early as 2010, the county cooperated with the Bamboo Forest Carbon Sequestration Engineering Technology Research Center of the State Forestry and Grass Administration and the Provincial Key Laboratory of Forest Carbon Sequestration of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University to conduct bamboo forest carbon sequestration research.

According to the National Voluntary Emission Reduction Trading Registration System (CCER) standard, the average annual increase in carbon sinks per mu of bamboo forest is calculated to be 0.39 tons. Based on this, Anji has built a bamboo forest carbon sink trading system, which refers to the previous 30 trading days when purchasing and storing. The national average price of carbon emission rights trading determines the purchase and storage price, which was converted into a unit price of 16.926 yuan per mu of carbon sink for purchase and storage.

　　According to the contract, three years is a settlement cycle. The center pays 5 village cooperatives bamboo forest carbon collection and storage gold at one time. The selling price is based on the purchase and storage price plus the storage cost. 80% is fed back to the village cooperative.

　　Dali Village is one of the first batch of villages benefiting from bamboo forest carbon sequestration and storage transactions. Previously, the village transferred 5,425 mu of bamboo that were scattered by farmers to cooperatives for unified management. The carbon sequestration deposit is 275,500 yuan, and the other is 19,900 yuan in return after the sale of the bamboo forest carbon sequestration.

　　After the income was received, the enthusiasm for cultivating bamboo forests in Dali Village was unprecedentedly high. The village cooperative immediately purchased bamboo forest cleaning machines, lawn mowers, special micro-tillers for bamboo forests, and all-in-one ditching and fertilizing machines. Specialized equipment for bamboo forests is used for bamboo forests Ditching, weeding, pest control and bamboo cultivation, felling, transportation, slicing, etc. At the same time, under-forest economic crops such as bamboo fungus, Polygonatum chinensis, and big bulb mushrooms are planted in the bamboo forest, and an extended forest road is still being built.

　　This series of measures will greatly increase the benefits of the original bamboo forest: mechanized production and the construction of extended forest roads to the top of the mountain will reduce labor costs by 80%. Bamboo forest cultivation will have a new "weapon", which will lead to higher yields and better harvests. an income.

Ying Zhongdong, secretary of the Party branch of Dali Village, said that the most conservative estimate would increase the per capita income of bamboo forests scattered among farmers by more than 3,000 yuan. From "selling stones" to "selling scenery" to "selling air", bamboo forest carbon Remittance purchase and storage transactions have become one of the most direct ways to transform clear waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets.

　　Who buys the bamboo forest carbon sink purchased and stored?

Anji promotes the formation of carbon purchase groups without increasing the burden on enterprises.

Local banking institutions have developed "Carbon Resource Benefit Enterprise Loans". For some enterprises that need credit funds and whose unit energy consumption and unit emissions exceed the provincial average, and whose per-mu tax revenue is lower than the provincial average, refer to the same period of the previous year or similar enterprises. Loan interest rates are given preferential interest rates, and enterprises can purchase carbon sinks with preferential interest rates without increasing the burden of a penny.

　　Anji Dacheng Paper Co., Ltd. originally had a loan of 29 million yuan with an annualized interest rate of 5.78%. The company purchased bamboo forest carbon sinks. Anji Rural Commercial Bank converted its loan into a "carbon sink benefit enterprise loan" with an annualized interest rate of 5.28%. This move saves the company 145,000 yuan a year in interest expenses.

The company purchased 2,101 tons of carbon sinks from the center and paid 116,000 yuan. In the end, it not only realized the purchase of carbon, but also saved 29,000 yuan in financial costs.

　　Private enterprises have taken the lead, and state-owned enterprises are not far behind. The Anji 110kV Chengbei Substation has not yet started construction, but after the carbon emissions of the raw materials required in the project construction have been calculated, the constructor pre-purchased a total of 146,800 yuan at a unit price of 73.41 yuan per ton. 2,000 tons of bamboo forest carbon sink with the same amount of carbon emissions, becoming the first carbon neutral construction project in Anji.

　　Up to now, the center has completed the collection and storage of 25,000 tons of bamboo forest carbon sink, paid 1.086 million yuan of bamboo forest carbon sink collection and storage funds for 3 years to 5 village bamboo forest cooperatives, and completed the carbon sink transaction of 562,800 yuan with 4 Anji enterprises, and released them from it. 126,900 yuan of back-feeding gold.

　　A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

The villages in Anji County acted quickly. The 870,000 mu of bamboo forests scattered in the hands of farmers in the county are going through the circulation procedures through their respective village cooperatives.

"Anji's exploration has given China the dominance of using bamboo forests to address climate change and develop a low-carbon economy in the international race to address climate change and develop a low-carbon economy." Professor, Institute of Land and National Development, Zhejiang University, Development China Forum Vice Chairman Wang Jingxin said.

(Chen Maoying, correspondent of this newspaper, Tong Haiyan, reporter of this newspaper, Lu Jian)