Imagine 22,000 sensors scattered across Anji County in Huzhou City, east Zhejiang Province on the Chinese mainland, all silently tracking the 'breaths' of bamboo forests.
These precision sensors measure CO2 fluxthe rate at which the forests absorb and store carbon dioxide. Over the past decade, Anji's bamboo sequestration has soared to an average of 6.6 tonnes per hectare.
Known as carbon storage champions, these lush forests generate tradable carbon credits. Local bamboo farmers now earn over A528 million (about $3.7 million) annuallyturning green into gold! 🌿💰
Anji is also the birthplace of the Two Mountains theoryLucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assetsa concept championed by Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, in 2005 that shows protecting nature can drive high-quality economic growth.
'The carbon market is the most direct way of turning ecological value into economic value,' says Wang Jun, founder of Climate Future China. With real-time data on a giant screen downtown, Anji is proof that smart tech and green policies can create mountains of gold. 📊✨
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How China's carbon trading market is delivering 'mountains of gold'
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