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Trump Formally Serves One-Year Notice to Withdraw From Paris Agreement
US President Donald Trump has ensured climate change will be a top issue in the 2020 presidential race by formally serving notice to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement the day after next year's election. Long expected, the formal announcement will focus attention on regional efforts within the United States and international efforts to move forward if Trump wins reelection in 2020.
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It’s Official: Climate Talks Will Take Place in Madrid, From 2-13 December
11/01/2019 1 November 2019 | Madrid will host the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from December 2 through 13, the UNFCCC ...Read More...
How Forests, Farms, and Fields Can Become a Net Carbon Sink in 20 Years
11/01/2019 A new study finds that the land sector could account for nearly one-third of the climate mitigation necessary to keep global temperatures below a 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7-degree-Fahrenheit) rise ...Read More...
After Chile Backs Out, Speculation Focuses on Bonn or Madrid for Climate Summit
10/30/2019 Chile's withdrawal from hosting this year's climate talks echoes the 2016 talks, or "COP 23," which were moved to the former German capital of Bonn after the host country, Fiji, was unable to ...Read More...
As Impeachment Pressure Grows, Trump Attacks Paris, California, and Climate
10/23/2019 As two dozen Republican congressmen were disrupting the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s activities, the president himself was in Pittsburg threatening to accelerate his ...Read More...
The UK Finds “Net Gain” Might be Cheaper Than “No Net Loss”
10/23/2019 In the United States, species and wetland markets are built on the concept of “no net loss,” which often requires extensive surveying to determine exact impacts. In the United Kingdom, a new bank ...Read More...
In Chesapeake Bay, Simple Targets Lead to Compound Results
10/21/2019 The Green New Deal has won praise for highlighting the upside of meeting the climate challenge, but critics say cap-and-trade will deliver the same benefits without the confusion. In the ...Read More...
Shades of REDD+:Bridging the National vs Project Divide
10/21/2019 Efforts to reduce tropical deforestation are divided into two separate worlds: One that believes that governments need to lead any effort on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation ...Read More...
Will Small Forest Owners Finally Be Able To Tap Carbon Markets?
10/18/2019 Carbon finance can, in theory, help small landowners around the world improve the way they manage their forests by providing that little bit of extra income that can make sustainable forest ...Read More...
The Case of the Billion-Dollar Foot (or The High Cost of Cheap Regulation)
10/16/2019 We’ve all been there. You try to save money by doing things on the cheap, only to find that “low-cost” solutions can leave expensive messes. It’s a lesson that some US companies are learning the ...Read More...
IMF: $75 Per Ton Carbon Price Needed by 2030 to Meet Climate Challenge
10/11/2019 Economists have long agreed that the most effective way to meet the climate challenge is to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, and a new study from the International Monetary Fund says that ...Read More...
Want to Save Endangered Species and Clean Up Our Water? Hop in a Sandbox!
10/09/2019 Environmental markets have delivered stunning success, but at nowhere near the scale needed to meet the climate, water, and biodiversity challenges. One challenge is Sluggish regulatory responses ...Read More...
Carbon Offsetting: the Frequently Asked Questions
10/07/2019 Climate change is finally getting the media attention it deserves, and so is carbon offsetting. But what is carbon offsetting? How does it work? Can you trust it? These are just some of the most ...Read More...
Month-End Summit Aims to Accelerate Investments in Natural Infrastructure
10/04/2019 Two years ago, few people outside of the environmental community had heard of “nature-based solutions” to the climate challenge or “green infrastructure,” but both concepts are suddenly being ...Read More...
Understanding Elizabeth Warren’s Risk Disclosure Act
09/24/2019 This story originally appeared in Cheddar. It is republished here as part of Ecosystem Marketplace’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to ...Read More...
Forests, Farms, and the Global Carbon Sink: How Developing Countries Put Forests on the Climate Agenda
09/23/2019 Nearly a quarter of all the greenhouse gases emitted by man come from the way we manage our forests, farms, and fields, yet the Kyoto Protocol offered little in the way of tools for financing ...Read More...
Meet the Lawyers Beating Back Trump’s Reckless Environmental Policies — and Winning
09/22/2019 This story originally appeared in Rolling Stone. It is republished here as part of Ecosystem Marketplace’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news ...Read More...
Debunked: Eight Myths About Carbon Offsetting
09/19/2019 Climate change is finally getting the attention it deserves, and with the attention comes renewed skepticism about carbon offsetting. Our research into voluntary markets, however, reveals ...Read More...
Green Goal: Soccer Enters the Carbon Markets
11/07/2001 Organizers of the World Cup Soccer tournament are looking to a voluntary 100,000-ton carbon offset agreement to help them achieve their "Green Goal" for the world's most-watched ...Read More...
Shades of REDD+: Can Oil and Aviation Fuel a Marshall Plan for Forests?
09/17/2019 Deforestation is increasing around the world, and we need a Marshall Plan for Forests. But who will fund it? In this installment of the series “Shades of REDD+”, we look at two sectors that may ...Read More...
Investment in Regenerative Agriculture Connects the Dots Between Soil and Plate
09/18/2019 This story originally appeared in Civil Eats. It is republished here as part of Ecosystem Marketplace’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets ...Read More...
A New Beginning for Climate Reporting
09/16/2019 This story originally appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review. It is republished here as part of Ecosystem Marketplace's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more ...Read More...
How Antonin Scalia Launched Trump’s Stealth Attack on Clean Water
09/12/2019 The President of the United States can't repeal a law like the Clean Water Act, but the Trump Administration is going ahead with plans to undermine the CWA by severely limiting the long-evolving ...Read More...
Opinion:We Save the Amazon in Part by Investing in the Indigenous Frontline
09/05/2019 It's no coincidence that indigenous and traditional communities control one-third of the world's remaining tropical forests, for these groups have long managed their forests in ways that provide ...Read More...
Deforestation Surges 43 Percent Despite Global Pledge to Cut it in Half
09/12/2019 Deforestation was supposed to be cut in half between 2014 and 2020, with 150 million hectares of land being restored. Instead, deforestation has surged 43 percent, according to a new report ...Read More...
Shades of REDD+: New Series to Explore History and Future of Forest Finance
08/28/2019 Deforestation is a classic “wicked problem” with no easy solutions. REDD+ has been conceived to be the master of this problem. In this new series, we’ll look whether REDD+ has delivered on the ...Read More...
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...