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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. In North America, the land carbon sink between 2004 and 2013 offset roughly 39% of fossil fuel emissions , but varied substantially year to year.

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Report: Heading into COP26, Canada is hiding more than 80 million tonnes of carbon emissions from logging

Enviromental Defense

Failing to measure and report emissions related to logging roads and seismic lines. Adopting an arbitrary and generous “reference level” baseline for the forest sector that gives Canada a free “accounting contribution” towards its 2030 emission reduction goals.

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Innovators in 2023 Carbon Removal Landscape

Ivy Protocol

The year 2023 stands as a testament to this synergy, with a plethora of companies innovating in the carbon removal terrain with a shared goal of fighting climate change. Meeting the recent pathways laid out by the IPCC will require total cumulative net carbon dioxide removals of 20–660 GtCO2 by 2100.

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Does Pollution End at U.S. Borders? – Why U.S. Military Pollution is a Reason for Agencies to Implement the Global Social Cost of Carbon

Vermont Law

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC. If the U.S.

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Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany

Edouard Stenger

This is a game-changing move as peaker plants and even baseload ones will become more and more irrelevant, decreasing carbon emissions. India plans to stop selling ICE cars by 2030. The intense wildfires that have been seen in Southern Europe and the Western part of North America are emitting a lot of carbon dioxide.

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The huge carbon footprint of large-scale computing

Physics World

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. At around 15 tonnes per astronomer, it ran to almost four times their annual emissions from flights (figure 1). © 2020 Springer Nature Limited. kg of CO 2 per kilowatt hour.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

White House: President Biden issued an executive order setting a course for the federal government to become carbon neutral by 2050. The executive order requires the federal government to only purchase energy from renewable sources by 2030 and to exclusively buy zero-emissions vehicles by 2035. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? –

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