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Avoided deforestation credits represent a reality that doesn’t exist. Removing them from net-zero strategies, while still funding them under a different scheme, can avoid this problem.
by Jesse Klein
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There is continued confusion over guidance on the role protecting forests should play on a company’s road to net zero.
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Sponsored: The new Sustainable Forestry Initiative 2022 standards will ensure healthy forests that lead to benefits such as avoiding deforestation and fighting climate change.
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Natural climate solutions offer us up to one-third of the solutions required to meet the climate change goals by 2030. The Natural Climate Solutions Alliance offers valuable guidance for businesses looking to invest.
by Justin Adams
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Across the 48 states of the continental U.S., there is enough land to plant forests that could sequester the equivalent of about 5 percent of the greenhouse gases the country emitted in 2019.
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Keeping trees in the ground where they are already growing is an effective low-tech way to slow climate change.
by Beverly Law
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To fix fashion’s sustainability problem, we need a little less conversation and a little more action
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Sponsored: The industry is on the verge of a climate revolution, but progress is getting bogged down by semantics and distracted by low-hanging fruit.
by Angela Adams
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President-elect Biden and leaders in the House and Senate have a chance to lead on climate change by standing up for forests.
by Alex Rudee
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While tree-planting events in parks or schoolyards make for great photo opps, we should devote far more time to acts of restoration and conservation.
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Bank of America, Mastercard, Salesforce and Microsoft, along with the cities of Detroit and Dallas, are among launch partners for the first regional chapter of the 1t.org initiative, led by World Economic Forum and American Forests.
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Sponsored: Embracing circularity principles as part of natural climate solutions must be a part of the COVID-19 recovery. International Paper explains how it is helping to do just that.
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Researchers are looking to kelp for help storing carbon dioxide far beneath the surface of the sea.
by Emma Bryce
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If not carefully designed or part of a broader carbon management plan, carbon offset projects can have the potential to negatively impact local communities and economies, and biodiversity and other natural resources.
by Julie Nash
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A pilot in Iowa offers a glimpse into the future of carbon credit marketplaces.
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New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned about this development.
by Fred Pearce
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Focus less on what it’s called and more on what it describes.
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Global greenhouse-gas emissions have plunged in the wake of COVID-19, but keeping them down requires longer-term strategies blending industrial reductions with solutions that save the world’s forests, farms and fields.
by Steve Zwick
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Sponsored: Danone, General Mills, Barry Callebaut and Braskem accelerate climate action through nature-based solutions.
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Date/Time: November 18, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT)
As governments step up efforts to strengthen the Paris Agreement at COP26 and tackle the
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Society is at the most critical stage yet in the pursuit to alleviate the global climate crisis. Science has clearly shown that we must reduce global
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Join us for a conversation on the role of forests in addressing climate change and how technology can support and scale up forest conservation and
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Coronavirus has caused unemployment to skyrocket. Tree restoration could be a cost-effective way to put Americans back to work.
by Alex Rudee
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There's an emerging market to pay farmers to store more carbon in the soil by using improved agricultural practices. But some scientists are questioning whether these efforts will actually help slow global warming.
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The benefits of protecting and restoring soil carbon go well beyond any one farm or any one year. But not enough people are taking these steps.
by Kiley Price
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Projects succeed when locals have the right decision-making power, skills and incentives to protect their forests.
by Jan Cassin