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Amazon Fires: What We Know and What We Can Do
The Amazon is burning again, accelerating the surge in deforestation that began in 2015, and this time major media are taking notice — with many noting that we are close to a tipping point beyond which the forest cannot recover. Here's a look at how this year's carnage fits in with past burning seasons, and why these annual burnings present a cumulative to the lungs of our planet.
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California is Poised to Lead on Climate – Again
08/21/2019 Tropical forests are our first line of defense against climate change, and the Tropical Forest Standard creates a blueprint through which industries can offset part of their carbon emissions by ...Read More...
Will Trump’s Endangered Species Alteration Hurt the $25 Billion Restoration Economy?
08/16/2019 Republican lawmakers have been reticent about directly attacking popular laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, but the Trump Administration has chosen to undermine them by ...Read More...
What Does the IPCC Special Report say About Forests?
08/14/2019 The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on land use and climate change reveals seven important things to take note of on the relationship between forests and climate change.
Opinion: Ten Things Rural Landowners Should Know About Ecological Land Value
08/12/2019 Ranchers and farmers earn their livelihoods managing land in ways that deliver goods and services the rest of us are willing to pay for. Far too many of them, however, have not yet learned about ...Read More...
Understanding the IPCC’s New Compendium of Science on Climate, Forests, and Farms
08/08/2019 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its long-waited Special Report on Climate Change and Land this morning. Written by 107 authors drawing on more than 7,000 scientific ...Read More...
Is 2019 Summer the Season of Trees and Climate?
08/07/2019 Natural climate solutions are finally beginning to get the kind of media attention they need, but that can be a double-edged chainsaw if certain nuances are lost. We take stock of the last few ...Read More...
Incorporating Green Infrastructure into Our Cities
08/01/2019 Our forests, wetlands, urban green spaces, and sustainably-managed farms and ranches provide clean and reliable water for most of the world's urbanites, yet they are often treated as little more ...Read More...
Commenting Opens Soon on New REDD+ Jurisdictional Accounting Initiative
07/26/2019 Natural climate solutions are key to meeting the climate challenge, but scaling them up requires rigorous accounting for the way our management of forests, farms, and fields impacts greenhouse ...Read More...
Webinar: Understanding the Accountability Framework
07/24/2019 The Accountability Framework aims to provide a global consensus on how to define a forest and how to track the impact that commodity companies have on deforestation the world. Launched in June, ...Read More...
A Financial Architecture for Global Carbon Sinks: A New Forestry Investment Strategy
07/15/2019 Natural climate solutions can get us one-third of the way to meeting the Paris Agreement's 2-degree target, but they draw just 3 percent of climate finance. We can change that by developing a new ...Read More...
A Brief History of Planting Trees to Save the Environment
07/15/2019 Major media are finally waking up to the role that trees can play in slowing and even reversing climate change, and that’s great. Unfortunately, most still seem oblivious to mechanisms emerging ...Read More...
Americans Deserve Better Coverage of Carbon Finance
07/11/2019 The climate challenge is complex, and so are the solutions emerging for meeting it. Unfortunately, the same sloppy reporting that got us into this mess is now threatening to keep us here, says ...Read More...
Natural Gas Beat Coal in the US. Will Renewables and Storage Soon Beat Natural Gas?
07/09/2019 Utility regulators from a range of US states are questioning the wisdom of investing in new natural gas facilities, which look increasingly risky compared to low-cost wind and solar projects. ...Read More...
How Can Investors Hold Companies Accountable for Deforestation?
06/25/2019 Hundreds of corporations say they want to reduce their impact on forests, and many actually make good on that claim. Most, however, say haven't been able to do so because every NGO seems to have ...Read More...
One-Sixth of the World’s Economy Could Soon Be Covered by Carbon Neutral Commitments
06/25/2019 Commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement aren't yet deep enough to avoid a climate catastrophe, but more and more countries and companies are either contemplating or committing to carbon ...Read More...
Eastern European Countries Say No To Carbon Neutrality Without Compensation
06/21/2019 The European Council has failed to put a date on its carbon neutrality pledge after four countries – the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Poland – pushed back against the rest of the block. ...Read More...
Bonn Climate Talks Open With Focus on Food and Markets
06/17/2019 Two weeks of UN climate talks opened today in the former German capital of Bonn, with the 50th meetings of both the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and ...Read More...
Can Natural Climate Solutions Defuse the Arctic Methane Bomb?
06/13/2019 Twenty years ago, the IPCC warned that global warming would melt arctic ice, releasing methane that drives up temperatures faster and faster. It's a nightmare scenario that mainstream media ...Read More...
Nearly Half of Companies With Deforestation Risk Aren’t Addressing It
06/10/2019 Some of the world's most high-profile companies have committed to purging deforestation from their commodity supply chains, but they amount to just 8 percent of global companies involved in the ...Read More...
Two Tenths of A Percent to Help End Climate Change?
06/09/2019 Renewable energy costs have plunged in the past decade, but we're still trillions shy of meeting the climate challenge. Carbon taxes will drive down emissions and fund solutions, while a general ...Read More...
To Get People Engaged on Climate, Media Must Focus on Solutions
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Where Do The 2020 Dems Stand On Climate And Carbon Pricing?
01/25/2019 Nearly two dozen people have joined the race to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, and all of them – in contrast with their sole Republican counterpart – ...Read More...
Shares in Sustainable Palm Oil Companies Outperform Those of Bad Actors by 25%
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A $50 Price on Carbon Will Boost Forest Carbon Sink 15 Percent: Study
05/29/2019 The generally-accepted social cost of carbon is roughly $100 per ton of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but voluntary carbon prices rarely top $10 per ton. New research shows that a price of ...Read More...
What ProPublica Gets Wrong – And Right – On Forest Carbon Finance
05/28/2019 Everyone agrees that we must save the world's forests if we're to end climate change, but how to get there? One cluster of tools involves using carbon finance to keep forests alive, and a ...Read More...
Opinion: ProPublica’s Inexcusable REDD+ Belly Flop
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Remembering The Day Milton Friedman “Endorsed” A Price On Carbon
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How Can We Save Our Food Systems From Climate Change?
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IPCC Updates GHG Inventory Recommendations
05/16/2019 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has updated the guidance it provides to governments for measuring its greenhouse-gas emissions, including flows of carbon into and out of land systems.