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Carbon credits would enable restoration of UK saltmarshes, says CEH study

Envirotec Magazine

The introduction of a carbon credit scheme, enabling companies to invest in the restoration of the UK’s degraded saltmarshes and voluntarily offset their greenhouse gas emissions, would be viable, a study led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has found. million tonnes of carbon.

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Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

GreenBiz

Carbon pricing works, and this proves it. Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? We analyzed data for 142 countries over more than two decades, 43 of which had a carbon price of some form by the end of the study period. Paul Burke.

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'No significant change': Government data suggests UK's 'green' workforce shrank between 2014 and 2019

Business Green

Despite gains in offshore wind and low carbon vehicles and infrastructure, the number of people employed in 'green fields' dropped by more than 30,000 between 2014 and 2019, according to the ONS.

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Planet Becomes a Carbon Neutral Company

Planet Pulse

In December 2021, Planet officially became a carbon neutral company as part of our commitment to sustainability. We applaud Planet on their commitment to carbon neutrality and the work they did to assess and verify their claim ultimately earning carbon neutral certification for their company for 2020. © 2021, Planet Labs PBC.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. The halfway mark has now passed between 1990, the year that countries who signed the U.N. … while a lot has changed, not much has changed. Think big but start small.

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The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

GreenBiz

Back in 2014, Amazon started making major investments in renewable energy. Most recently the company committed to powering global operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025 as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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Ocean Heat and Carbon Drains to Cool and Energize the Planet.

Energy Central

In their 2014 paper Potential climate engineering effectiveness and side effects during a high carbon.

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