Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:05:45 +0000
Carbon offsets are credits that you purchase in order to balance out your emissions. You fund a project that will remove or store that same amount of carbon dioxide you emitted but in a different place. Your credit purchase means you “retire” the emissions to a carbon sink such as … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:35:14 +0000
Remarkably, in 2022 the USA managed to get a greenhouse gas price through Congress. It wasn’t on carbon dioxide, the biggest problem, but it was on methane, the second biggest greenhouse gas problem we humans create. Perhaps more remarkably, it was explicitly on the oil and gas industry and excluded … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:59:51 +0000
For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. The work of organizations like Mark Z. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:41:00 +0000
Washington State wrapped up its first full year of auctions for tradable emission allowances in December, as the state considers … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:05:40 +0000
The Trans Mountain Pipeline was a bad idea from the start. Dropping federal opposition to it in 2016 to bring in the carbon tax was a good choice. Everything after that has been and will continue to be a spiral into the abyss.
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:18:40 +0000
The Indian government has issued a list of projects that would be eligible to earn carbon offsets for the purpose of selling them in international carbon markets. According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, a total of 13 activities have been identified as potential carbon offset generators in […]
Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:15:44 +0000
In the EU, the discussion started to bring all flights departing from EU airfields under the ETS (Emission Trading System), the EU-wide carbon tax on CO2 produced by industries. Currently, only the airline industry’s flights departing to a destination within the EU are under the ETS system. By bringing all departing flights under the system, […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 19:50:36 +0000
Planting trees is good, planting trees with pinpoint accuracy on carbon is better, and Ctrees has the numbers to help prevent bad actors from using trees as a greenwashing screen.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:50:46 +0000
The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.
Credit to Author: The Beam| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 17:35:53 +0000
Germany, Europe’s largest economy, was once a pioneer in climate protection. Today, Berlin presses hard on the brakes. But help is on the way. By Frank Odenthal The elections to the German Bundestag are over, and it remains unclear what the new government of Europe’s economic powerhouse will look like. The fight against the climate […]