Silva Elm publications are simply the result of more representative authoring beyond the narrowly focussed development-test environment to demonstrate Sense's extensive Outliner and Word Processing features with resulting documents made publically available via free download.
Sense documents are saved in Silva Elm's Document (sed) format. Sense documents may be opened into third-party editors such as Microsoft's Word by first exporting into the Rich Text Format (rtf) using the freely available Sense RTF Plugin extension.
The pre-requisite of any documents released in this manner are that they are topical at the time of initial issue to provide wider interest rather than simply focusing on specific Sense capabilities.
The Carbon Taxation Mechanism document was first published to the Silva Elm Website on 10th October 2021.
The document has since been re-released with minor layout changes in both Sense Document format as well as in PDF following export using the Sense PDF Plugin.
The inspiration behind this writing arose from the updating of this website's About Webpage and decision to include historic details of a, never to be released, GHG Accounting software application. This also coincided with a re-reading of the Climate Crisis issue of the Ecologist Apr/May 1999. With the editorial written by Edward and Zac Goldsmith, this particular Ecologist publication made unimaginably grim reading then and even grimmer in 2020 in context of the delayed Council Of Parties (COP26) summit due to the coronvirus pandemic and accelerating climate change. More details on how this document evolved into a proposal to extend the hitherto failing Paris Agreement and its associated download are provided within the dedicated Carbon Taxation Mechanism webpage.
The Carbon Added Tax document was published 1st March 2022 and focusses on the implementation of a globally applied Carbon Added Tax (CAT).
The re-released Sense document is now also available in PDF following export using the soon to be released Sense PDF Plugin.
Carbon Added Tax (CAT) is one component of the proposed Carbon Taxation Mechanism (CTM) and designed as an alternative to controversal border taxes. Centred on a methodology of Carbon Pricing based on the concentration of atmospheric Greenhouse Gases, the Carbon Added Tax is one of four cornerstones of the CTM with revenue flowing between each to address perceived systemic failures of the Paris Agreement.
