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An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market

GreenBiz

In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund. EP Carbon uses innovation and creativity to make carbon projects and their accompanying standards work for an eclectic range of landowners. EP Carbon on the other hand, takes a much more international approach.

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Planet Launches First Tanager-1 Hyperspectral Satellite and 36 SuperDoves with SpaceX

Planet Pulse

Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition , a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. We’re proud to be a part of it,” said Will Marshall, Co-Founder and CEO of Planet.

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Planet Announces New Details of Hyperspectral Offering

Planet Pulse

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Lignium Energy Transforms Problematic Manure into Climate-friendly Fuel

Greentown Labs

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. Many of the most-polluted cities of South America are in Chile, and this is mainly because of the use of wood during the winter. Today, cow manure is a major climate and logistical problem on farms.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

Critics of the push say carbon capture technology is still unproven, methane leakage could add untold greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, and transport complications all make blue hydrogen a much dirtier fuel than the name implies. It’s hard to be optimistic. Global Oilfields.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

In such markets, the development of standards can play a vital role in turning innovation into reality." The BSI report drew comparisons with the electric vehicle industry, where it said the early emergence of standards helped create the 'scaffolding' which has enabled investment in EV and charging innovations.