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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

According to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset programs can be grouped into the following broad categories: Renewable energy, energy efficiency, methane abatement, reforestation and conservation, fuel switching, and community projects. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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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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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20. Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006.

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The Potential Of Hybrid Clean Energy Systems To Advance Energy And Climate Justice

Energy Innovation

In particular, new research showcases how coupling existing state efforts (1) to accelerate renewable energy adoption in underserved low-income communities and (2) to replace aging gas distribution networks with district heating and cooling could amplify the benefits of such efforts. a) Geo-grid district heating and cooling structure. (b)

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average. Regional cooling due to jetstream disruption. Lot’s of Methane.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.

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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?

Grist

When InvestigateWest launched the Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series in January 2021, the latest official data showed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases had risen steadily from 2012 to 2018, and the region wasn’t on track to make big cuts this decade. “We