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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation. One highlighted by Beale is the Tree Equity Score tool from American Forests, which calculates information for U.S.

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

With it comes rising hopes that Brazil will be able to close a big implementation gap in its forest code. One of the most ambitious agreements the world has ever seen to slow tropical forest loss is the Brazilian Cattle Agreement, a 2009 pledge by the largest meat companies to not source cattle from land illegally deforested in the Amazon.

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Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of farms and forests near the New York-Connecticut border, about 80 miles north of New York City.

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California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?

DeSmogBlog

On September 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.

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Exposed: West Virginia and Other States Relying on ‘House of Cards’ to Pay for Coal Mine Cleanup

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 15 mins For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. That said, huge as it sounds, that $7 trillion represents only a fraction of the more than $100 trillion in global assets under management.

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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Stop cutting down forests. Tags: solar geoengineering geoengineering bill gates David Keith American Enterprise Institute ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) rex tillerson Covering Climate Now 2019 To name a few: acid rain , deforestation, and climate change. Reversing such problems is, on its face, quite simple. Stop burning fossil fuels.