Major registries in the carbon offset market are allowing dubious credits, report says – CNBC
Paula Swedeen, a forest policy specialist for the Washington Environmental Council, poses for a photo next to a forest land boundary marker adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, near Ashford, Wash. The land is part…
Climate change: Can we really take CO2 back out the air? – BBC
Tackling climate change could require sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, according to the IPCC. Jocelyn Timperley looks at how these ‘negative emissions’ might work. Humanity is on thin ice. Only rapid reductions in fossil fuel use, increased efficiency…
The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future – Al Jazeera English
Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at risk. So concludes the United Nations Intergovernmental…
Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise – BBC
Getty Images By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists. The authors say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere…
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns that losses tied to climate change could ‘cascade through the financial system’ – CNBC
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers remarks on “Next Steps in the Evolution of Development Finance” at a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2023. Leah Millis | Reuters Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday…
Washington state moves forward with program to charge companies for greenhouse gas emissions – CNBC
Then-Washington State Governor and presidental candidate Jay Inslee signs five climate change bills into law that will reduce carbon emissions, decrease pollution, boost jobs and increase public health, Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at Central Park in the Rainier Vista neighborhood….
The world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, so it’s time to study reflecting sun away from the Earth, UN says – CNBC
People photographed in Lower Saxony, Germany, on July 19, 2022. A number of European countries were affected by a heatwave last month. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Global efforts to respond to climate change are so far…
Study: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years – Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new study that’s…
Society isn’t changing fast enough to stop climate change: study – The Hill
Society isn’t changing fast enough to stop climate change: study | The Hill Skip to content FILE – A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs near the town of Kulusuk, in eastern Greenland on Aug. 15, 2019. (AP…
Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study
The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor within a country is now greater than the differences in emissions between countries, data shows. The finding is further evidence of the growing divide between the “polluting elite”…
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