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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 by CIBO Technologies: Crop models simulate conditions in the soil and plants on the computer to avoid errors in the real world and hedge farmers’ risks.
by Bruno Basso
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Sponsored: Carbon credits advance regenerative ag and help companies offset Scope 3 emissions but are confusing, requiring tools to inform investment decisions.
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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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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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Researchers are looking to kelp for help storing carbon dioxide far beneath the surface of the sea.
by Emma Bryce
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Algae is said to be up to five times more effective at absorbing carbon than trees,
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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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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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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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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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The ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are squeezing out other nutrients that plant feeders — such as insects and people — need to thrive.
by Ellen Welti
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That’s equivalent to about 10.3 million American football fields.
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Sponsored: Companies are working with nature to reach their corporate carbon targets.
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New approaches, from CO2-sucking materials to regenerative agriculture, were in the spotlight at VERGE 19.
by RP Siegel
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Mission-driven companies are trying to tackle systemic challenges in sustainability with electrification, renewable energy, biomaterials and data management software.
by Cyan Zhong
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In the spotlight: the burgeoning relationship between direct air capture firm Carbon Engineering and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures.
by RP Siegel
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We need to remove carbon from the air to avert disastrous impacts of climate change — good thing there's money to be made from carbon removal.
by RP Siegel
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It may sound a bit like alchemy to create building blocks out of thin air, but plants and algae have been doing essentially the same thing for hundreds of millions of years.
by Ben Soltoff