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

Planet Pulse

Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global.

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

Envirotec Magazine

Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $25M to Accelerate Satellite Technologies That Pinpoint Methane Emitters to Turbocharge Fight Against Climate Change

Planet Pulse

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. Carbon Mapper , a new nonprofit organization created to help improve understanding of and accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, was launched in April 2021.

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Five predictions for energy transition trends in 2022

Smart Energy International

David Hall of Schneider Electric highlights five trends to watch for power and utility firms this year. The global shift towards more climate-conscious energy efficiency has accelerated the need for sustainable technology to deliver a cleaner, greener, and fairer energy system. Microgrids fit for the future.

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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter

GreenBiz

Coca-Cola appropriately is the longtime ally of the poster child for climate change, the polar bear. At just 11, I thought I could stop global warming, so I created a blog with articles urging people, "Save the polar bears." Perhaps they eat organic, use public transportation, recycle or take military-style showers.

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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves

Grist

The blistering weather had many people wondering: Is this climate change? Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study. These kinds of leaps are a lot for our bodies to handle, making heat waves in cooler climates especially deadly.