Read the following passage carefully:
Under the 2026 National Forest Canopy Accounting Mandate, regional forestry boards are required to utilize satellite lidar surveillance to verify canopy density improvements before issuing verified carbon offset tokens to private conservation concessionaires. The mandate dictates that tokens can only be allocated if a contiguous tract of at least 500 hectares demonstrates a verified minimum canopy cover density increase of 12% over three consecutive fiscal years. Furthermore, if any logging activity—whether planned silvicultural thinning or illegal timber extraction—occurs within a registered concession zone during the evaluation window, all pending offset token allocations for that concession are automatically frozen pending an independent audit. However, the framework explicitly allows concessionaires whose tokens are frozen due to unverified logging allegations to submit drone-based thermal imaging logs within 30 days to prove the logging was unauthorized trespassing rather than concessionaire-sanctioned operations, thereby resuming token processing.
Based strictly on the passage above, which of the following statements must logically be true regarding the allocation of carbon offset tokens?
- A concessionaire whose concession zone experienced logging activity during the evaluation window can still have token processing resumed if drone thermal imaging proves within 30 days that the activity was unauthorized trespassing.Cevap
- BPrivate conservation concessionaires managing tracts smaller than 500 hectares are barred from receiving tokens because smaller forests do not contribute meaningfully to national decarbonization targets.
- CA concession zone achieving a 12% canopy density increase over two consecutive fiscal years will receive a pro-rata allocation of carbon offset tokens.
- DDrone-based thermal imaging surveillance is inherently more accurate and technologically superior to satellite lidar surveillance for monitoring forest tracts.