Carbon Offsetting Articles & Analysis
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First on-farm phosphorus removal system protects watershed – June 14th, 2021. On June 14 Vermont dairy Goodrich Farm has been announced as a recipient of the national 2021 US Dairy Sustainability Award for Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability. The family-run 900-cow dairy was chosen for its initiatives that combine environmental commitment and economic viability. Together with Middlebury ...
Despite continuing concern about the fate of iconic rainforests, new research shows that the world’s forests have stored away an extra 4 billion tonnes of carbon in the last dozen years and the total amount of woodland has increased worldwide since 2003. The encouraging news comes from Australian scientists, who report in Nature Climate Change that they used a new technique to analyse 20 ...
"The amount of carbon dioxide removed from our atmosphere by Chevrolet's purchase of carbon credits equals the amount that would be reduced by taking 5,000 cars off the road," U.S. ...
Since 2008, JetBlue has partnered with Carbonfund.org, a nonprofit organization that allows customers to offset carbon dioxide emissions generated by their individual air travel. The airline also offsets all crewmember business travel. Carbon offsets balance out carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...
Through the Suitability Mapper, various stakeholders — including palm oil producers, investors and government planners — can use a customisable map to help them locate tracts of degraded, low-carbon land that were cleared of natural vegetation years ago but are now suitable for palm-oil cultivation. ...
About the Carbonfund.org Foundation Carbonfund.org is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to reduce and offset their climate impact and hasten the transition to a clean energy future. Carbonfund.org achieves its goals through climate change education, carbon offset ...
The Climate Action Reserve, North America’s premier carbon offset registry, adopted its Nitrogen Management Project Protocol today. The protocol provides opportunities for farmers to generate carbon offsets by implementing agricultural management practices that reduce the application of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to corn ...
Entergy Corporation announced completion of the registration of a reforestation project in Arkansas and Louisiana that will remove an estimated 460,000 tons of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years. The project, which involved restoring 2,942 acres of marginal agricultural land to native bottomland hardwood forests, is registered with the widely respected American ...
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Meeting the California offset standards will allow projects to sell into California’s carbon market, where a stringent cap-and-trade program is expected to create robust demand for offsets. The institutions in the Carbon Canopy partnership provide the technical and business expertise necessary to do actual project ...
It will also give us the platform to further expand and develop our thriving voluntary and compliance carbon businesses,” says Climate Bridge CEO Alex Wyatt. Climate Bridge’s core business will remain the development of high-quality emission reduction projects under internationally recognised standards (e.g. ...
Offering customers the opportunity to offset the emissions associated with the average vehicle rental, with partner TerraPass. ...
The campaign features a six minute micro-documentary by NomadsLand highlighting the Fund's voluntary carbon offset program, Go Zero. The Go Zero program pairs leading companies with thousands of donors working to address two of the world's most pressing environmental challenges - habitat loss and climate change - by planting trees. ...
An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist participated in a project to fine-tune computer models that can indicate when forest 'carbon sinks' become net carbon generators instead. The results will help pinpoint the effectiveness of trees in offsetting carbon releases that contribute to higher atmospheric temperatures and ...