New Carbon Tracking Tool For Trees Has Your (Exact) Number
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.
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Already Sinking? COP21 Climate Talks Hit Negotiating Iceberg
Originally published on timcadman.wordpress.com. By Tim Cadman, PhD The twenty first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) begins its second week today, and the negotiations are foundering. The sticking points that emerged in the wake of the past few months’ discussions in the lead … [continued]
People Are Smarter Than Governments About Climate Change
Although negotiations on a draft text for December’s Paris climate talks have stalled, with very little of the 89-page document having been pared, and calls for the UN climate secretariat to winnow it further increasing, the results are in for the largest ever citizen consultation on climate change. More than … [continued]
Farming Now Worse For Climate Than Deforestation, Land Use Change
Thanks to protracted temblors in the US (and some other English-speaking nations) over the role of fossil fuels in generating climate change, many of us sometimes forget that agriculture, deforestation, and land use change (AFOLU, for short) also emit a large proportion of greenhouse gases. Those with a rough idea … [continued]
EU Calls For Legally Binding Emissions Cuts At Lima COP20
For a quick summary of the progress of world negotiations on climate change so far, the Climate Group has produced a simple but expressive infographic (below is part of it, click to enlarge). At Tuesday’s Lima COP20 meeting, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action … [continued]
Catalyzing Action At The September 2014 UN Climate Summit
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
14 Million Soccer Fields Of Amazonian Rain Forest Saved From Clearcutting
A research study published in Science this month (June 2014) found that a 70% decline in Brazilian Amazon deforestation could be an indication that effective management of the expanding agricultural sector is possible. One of the leading organizations behind the study was the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco, CA. … [continued]
Forest “Carbon Farms” More Profitable Than Raising Cattle
Multinational researchers this week divulged the results of a study of Colombia’s western Andes, one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems, that confirmed that letting cattle land regrow as forest “carbon farms” could remove significant amounts of carbon dioxide from earth’s atmosphere without damaging local economies. Environmental scientists have focused … [continued]
The U.S is Driving Other National Positions Leading into Copenhagen
[social_buttons] The U.S position on Climate Change is overshadowing all other discussions in the lead up to Copenhagen, even at a conference I recently attended in Melbourne Australia – the 5th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference, August 24-26th. The Australian position requires global consensus for a greenhouse gas … [continued]
