This week, the tokens were listed on Opensea, one of the largest marketplaces for NFTs for a pre-sale round. By purchasing these NFTs, people can help create a Green Wall of properties focused on conservation and deforestation. According to Luis Felipe Adaime, CEO of Moss, their purpose is to save the Amazon rainforest. On the […]
He said that this is the first time that Cambodia has developed a long-term strategic document to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, which is in line with the goal of turning Cambodia into a high-middle-income country by 2030 and high-income country by 2050. …Read the full story
to offer up a chance for businesses and other organizations to create voluntary market incentives on working lands to measure, quantify and verify practices that lower or minimize emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases. USDA will need to move quickly on funding the projects, given that the last time Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack used […]
“It’s not going to pay the bills,” said Bethany Huls, carbon customer success manager with Bayer. Huls was joined by representatives of Cargill, Truterra, which is the Land O’ Lakes sustainability division, and Indigo Ag, an agricultural start-up, in outlining the opportunities and challenges that come with the emerging carbon credits market. Truterra rolled out […]
And while many countries have pledged to curb carbon emissions, the reality may appear more daunting if humanity doesn’t take action. Originally, the company planned to monitor the spread of a disease-causing pest, the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, by using its platform that runs on satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to identify water bodies […]
Moss is hoping that with this new green asset, a vast number of people from all around the world can help them rescue large swaths of rainforest. If you don’t want to cry because you missed out, you can sign up to be notified when the next sale is held. There’s none of this ‘purchase […]
The airport therefore estimates that 99.9 per cent of its carbon emissions are Scope 3, “which means we do not directly control them”. From this year the airport’s landing charges “will include a new financial incentive for airlines to help make SAF more affordable for airlines. The airport also started to charge a drop-off fee […]
“Forests are well recognised as a natural solution to many of the world’s climate, biodiversity and social challenges,” says a JP Morgan AM spokesperson. The changing forestry sector is starting to reshape the economics of forestry investing, moving from an industry primarily focused on harvesting logs to one revolving around the capture of carbon for offsets. […]
The department didn’t track expenditures until 2010, and it’s still investing large amounts of taxpayer money in the technology. None achieved “economic viability.” The most common way for CCS power plants to offset costs is to help oil companies enhance production by injecting captured carbon into their wells, but that negates some of CCS’s value […]
Commercial and Industrial solar power provider, Starsight Energy, has completed an 876-kWp solar installation for the Nile University of Nigeria campus in Abuja. These systems have a combined capacity of 876 kWp and are projected to prevent over 14,888 tons of CO2 emissions over the project’s lifetime. Tony Carr, Starsight Energy CEO, commented, “We are […]
There are three recognised types of emissions – Scope 1 covers direct emissions that are controlled or owned by the company, Scope 2 covers indirect emissions, such those purchased including electricity, steam, heating or cooling. This is a view Wai-Chan Chan, managing director of the Consumer Goods Forum supports. One company leading the way is […]
It found that passengers were largely unwilling to offset their flights, as just 4.46 percent of bookings included the compensation. Carbon offsetting is a way for individuals to “neutralize” their proportion of an aircraft’s carbon emissions on a particular journey by investing in carbon reduction projects, according to the International Air Transport Association. In December […]
Carbon emissions tracking methods must be improved and updated, some researchers say, if we are to deal with the realities of pollution in a rational manner. During last year’s COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, government leaders agreed that they would limit global warming to 2.7 degrees by the end of this century. This information is […]
Tackling climate change is one of the key challenges of the XXI century. Carbon credits are a quota for an allowable amount of emissions to the environment. pay a fine or buy a carbon credit on the open market. emissions by 15% by 2030. The carbon trading system in the Republic of Kazakhstan consists of […]
“Given the urgency of climate change, and the possibility of ‘carbon cowboy’ scandals, these standards are getting stricter. …Read the full story
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However, thousands of credits generated under older, arguably less-rigorous schemes remain ‘in circulation.’ Not only is the positive environmental impact of many of these credits questionable — due to the problem of additionality — but trading them could have a bearish effect on carbon prices, hobbling the nascent market. …Read the full story
