Blue Carbon Rising
When carbon is stored in coastal wetland ecosystems, it becomes known as blue carbon. Blue carbon ecosystems remove four times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, per acre, than forests. The Blue...
View ArticleEPA Takes Strides to Reduce Emissions from Airplanes
The EPA intends to update the Clean Air Act, which was first introduced in 1963, to include jurisdiction limiting the emissions from airplane engines.
View ArticleHouse Natural Resources Committee: ‘Carbon Emissions Are Good’
The House Committee on Natural Resources recently discussed the benefits that carbon emissions provide to the planet. Yes, you heard right. I said “benefits.” Greenhouse gases produced by burning coal,...
View ArticleCecil the Lion and the Link Between Wildlife Conservation and Carbon Emissions
Hunting the king of the jungle is a lucrative business in many African countries, but social and environmental consequences are severe. The Kariba REDD+ project in Zimbabwe now shows a much more...
View ArticleSimple Ways Your Business Can Reduce Travel Emissions
Follow these simple suggestions to help your business cut down on its travel emissions. Doing so could not only boost employee morale, but also get some tax breaks for your business.
View ArticleVivergy Makes the Connection Between Climate, Emissions and Your Family’s Health
A newly formed company called Vivergy allows you to see what the air quality is in your town and relates it back to secondhand smoke. TriplePundit's RP Siegel spoke with Vivergy’s founder and CEO,...
View ArticleReport: Carbon Credits Under Kyoto Protocol Actually Increased Emissions
A recent report by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) found that one of the carbon offset mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol may have enabled GHG emissions to be about 600 million tons of carbon...
View ArticleIndonesia Sets New Climate Goals, But Are They Attainable?
Indonesia set new goals for 2030, and they call for aggressive changes in its emissions policies. With a new coal plant underway and more than 50 percent of its emissions due to deforestation and peat...
View ArticleCenter for Carbon Removal: Beyond Mitigation in a 2 °C World
Noah Deich, founder of the Center for Carbon Removal, hopes to bring a more holistic, business-centric approach to carbon removal.
View ArticleVoluntary Mechanisms to Mandatory Action
The $250 trillion firepower of the world's capital markets needs actionable information to decarbonize their portfolios. Regulators need to make this mandatory.
View ArticleZero to 100: Companies Double-Down on Climate Action
Adding to the growing momentum at Climate Week, five global companies pledged to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. It's a goal they call bold but necessary if we are to limit temperature rise to 2...
View ArticleVolkswagen Is Not Alone in Emissions, Performance Problems
Critics are asking why it took the EPA and California Air Resources Board 18 months to tell consumers that they were aware of serious emissions problems with some VW diesel vehicles. And while fed and...
View ArticleTerraPass, Moms Clean Air Force Talk Climate Change and Our Kids’ Futures
Moms Clean Air Force is a national organization of more than 500,000 parents, committed to fighting air pollution. Nancy Bsales of TerraPass had the pleasure of working with Moms Clean Air Force and...
View ArticleHow to Make Scope-3 Carbon Accounting Less Scary
Truth be told, conducting a full inventory of Scope 3 (also referred to as value-chain emissions) is a significant task. But it's not as scary as you may think, says Sustrana CEO Jennifer Anderson. She...
View ArticleOff-the-Shelf Technology Can Halt Climate Change Now
As we approach the climate talks in Paris this December, we want to make sure delegates understand technology is not the problem. A multitude of technologies are already here, and many more are on...
View ArticleReport: Boost Renewables, Halve Emissions
Achieving a 36 percent share of renewable energy by 2030 would provide half of the emissions reductions needed to keep temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, according to a recent report by the...
View ArticleCarbon Monitoring Will Play a Crucial Role in the Quest to Curb Warming
A recent report on EU energy governance, produced by the British House of Lords, says that “EU-wide binding 2030 renewables targets will not be delivered unless it is backed-up by a monitoring and...
View ArticleWorld Bank Launches $20M Carbon Credit Auction for Methane Projects
The Pilot Auction Facility (PAF), a World Bank effort to invest in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maximizing funds donated from both the private and public sectors, will hold its...
View ArticleThe Sustainable Business Case for Cannabis Legalization
Tomorrow evening, June 14 at 6:30 p.m., at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Michael Sutton will lead a discussion on whether Californians should vote “yes” on an initiative this November that...
View ArticleSpace-Based Monitoring Adds to Carbon Reduction Toolkit
The American OCO-2 satellite orbits the Earth every 99 minutes to pinpoint the origin of carbon emissions -- and similar systems are on the way.
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