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Recovering forests regain a quarter of carbon lost from deforestation

Envirotec Magazine

A new study , that uses satellite data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, seems to reveal that recovering forests only successfully combat a quarter of the current carbon emissions. Forests play a crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle as they absorb and store large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Starting in 2007, Permian Global has worked to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, protect habitats, and support sustainable local economies through large-scale tropical forest protection and restoration projects. Tropical forests, an important part of NCS, are some of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and must be protected.

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Latin American e-commerce giant invests in Brazilian ecosystem restoration

GreenBiz

From an established forest carbon marketplace? "We This company is a big deal in South America with 132.5 Of course, there’s also the expectation, with Pachama’s involvement, that these projects will originate new carbon offsets, which are in increasingly short supply as big businesses shower the world with net-zero pledges.

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Carbon offsets: Experts tout 'pioneering' method for measuring mangrove CO2 stores

Business Green

Mangrove project could mark 'turning point' for blue carbon credit market and protecting damaged CO2 stores, claims Conservation International. Hectare for hectare, mangrove forests can store up to 10 times more carbon than terrestrial forests due to their unique ability to sequester CO2 both above ground in soils and below water.

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Pachama and Planet Partner to Protect and Restore Forests Globally

Planet Pulse

Pachama , a Silicon Valley carbon credit marketplace, is announcing a partnership with Planet , the leading provider of global, near-daily satellite imagery data, to validate and monitor forest conservation and reforestation carbon projects around the world.

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

DeSmogBlog

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Carbon Capture and Storage. Below, a handful of DeSmog writers dive into the issues they’ll be watching in 2023. Aquaculture. Next year you will.

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UN report: People have wrecked 40% of all the land on Earth

Grist

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. He pointed to his suit jacket: “This is fiber, this is cotton, this is land, this is water, this is carbon.”