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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Government says beavers can stay in their Devon home

Envirotec Magazine

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. Devon Wildlife Trust’s Mark Elliott has led the charity’s beaver work since its beginnings in 2010.

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The Lancet: Few countries prepared to tackle worsening climate-related health risks

Business Green

Other findings suggest that nearly 570 million people could face risks of increased flooding, bigger storms, and soil and water salinification that could result in them being permanently forced to leave their homes. This gives us an opportunity to take a safer, healthier, low carbon path, but we have yet to do so.

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The problem with COP26

Low Impact

Tucked away in the report is this: “The available NDCs of all 191 Parties taken together imply a sizable increase in global GHG emissions in 2030 compared to 2010, of about 16%”. Has there been any progress in reducing global carbon emissions since Paris in 2015? And it’s not all about carbon emissions.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

Business Green

So-called nature-based solutions to climate change - harnessing trees, soils, and seagrass to such up carbon - are very much in vogue at the moment, and are increasingly being looked at by companies seeking to offset their own emissions while boosting biodiversity. Stark's message was, well, stark. "We

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Visualizing cost-managed approaches to reducing WA emissions

Low Carbon Prosperity

Economics are a primary concern in a well-designed strategy to reduce carbon. The potential ways to reduce carbon emissions vary dramatically on an economic basis. The amount of carbon abatement that a given method can accomplish also has limits in scale. Some items are shown as negative cost. Intro to MAC Curves.