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Balancing Risk and Impact in the Evolving Carbon Market
The rapid growth of the voluntary carbon market has resulted in a mismatch between supply of and demand for quality carbon credits. ... View More
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Breeding New Hope for the Future of Coffee in a Climate-Changing World
World Coffee Research and its partner brands are directing vital investment and R&D into this globally popular yet critically underfunded, climate-vulnerable crop. ... View More
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How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon
How can buyers and sellers of carbon credits ensure the projects they choose will have the desired impacts and climate outcomes? ... View More
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Antonioli: Carbon Markets Must Center on Long-Term, Sustainable Development Impacts
Former Verra CEO David Antonioli believes the carbon market is missing a golden opportunity to design and deploy carbon finance as a powerful transitional tool toward a zero-carbon economy. He outlines his vision in a new, six-part report. ... View More
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WA Ballot Initiative Could Stymy National Efforts to Put a Price on Carbon
I-2117 is already destabilizing the state’s landmark carbon market — confusing businesses and creating uncertainty about the future of climate policy. ... View More
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Concrete Is Causing the Downfall of Cities. Literally.
In addition to generating 8% of global carbon emissions, recent studies have highlighted another negative impact of the world’s most popular building material — its weight, which is causing a host of coastal cities to sink faster than sea levels ... View More
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Polycrises Threatening Planetary Health Cannot Be Addressed in Silos
As The Lancet warns in a new report, failing to consider interactions between climate, biodiversity and infectious disease will not address the fundamental issues affecting each — and the consequences will be 'exponentially more expensive.' ... View More
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If Circularity Is Now a Megatrend, Why Does Material Extraction Continue to Rise?
Deloitte and Circle Economy Foundation identify ongoing gaps in circular policies and approaches and outlines a roadmap to unlock capital, implement policy, and unlock skills and human capital needed for a robust circular economy capable of meeting t... View More
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B Lab Seeks Input on Updated B Corp Standards
B Lab has launched a public comment period on new draft standards for B Corp Certification — inviting businesses, civil society and the public to provide feedback through an interactive website. ... View More
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Brandable Solar Panels Bring New Meaning to ‘Marketing Sustainability’
As sustainability and branding become more intermingled for forward-thinking brands, being able to turn unattractive solar arrays into marketing assets exemplifies resource efficiency. ... View More
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How to Ensure Better Offsets and Save the Carbon Market
Newer players Climate Vault and Covalent are banking on their unique approaches — along with the dreaded “R” word, regulation — to salvage the credibility and efficacy of carbon markets. ... View More
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IRA Will Get US Halfway to Paris Goals; But We Need Mandates to Reach the Finish Line
Keeping the planet below 1.5ºC will require rapid scaling of current technologies and deployment of emergent climate solutions — as well as innovative, binding policy interventions. ... View More
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As DOE Invests $1.2B in Direct Air Capture, Climate Justice Groups Decry Business as Usual
Many see DAC as a necessary, if imperfect, tool for achieving needed carbon reductions; but climate justice groups oppose anything that perpetuates petrochemical operation, which often disproportionately harms communities where they are built. ... View More
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Report: Economic Uncertainty, Systemic Inequity Preserving Intention-Action Gap
A recent study shows that people across the socioeconomic spectrum care about climate action; but taking that action remains cost-prohibitive for lower-income groups. ... View More
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Free, Open-Source Recycling Ecosystem Is Making Plastic ‘Precious’
Precious Plastic is all about democratizing circularity. And it’s enabling a new form of craftsmanship: One in which anyone, anywhere, can start a small business recycling and making new products from plastic waste. ... View More
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Connected Construction a Promising Way to Reduce Impacts of the Built Environment
Constructing a sustainable built environment requires more than efficient design, equipment and materials — but processes and workflows that say exactly where and how these assets combine to streamline processes as much as possible. ... View More
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Climate Vault Aims to Spur Climate Action by Locking Away Carbon Permits
The organization works to purchase and vault CO2 permits from regulated cap-and-trade compliance markets — thus keeping major polluters from using them to emit and, theoretically, stopping pollution before it happens. ... View More
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GAF's First Urban Heat Project Produces Cool Results
GAF coatings had been proven to cool surfaces and ambient air on individual applications but had never been applied on a community-wide scale. Preliminary data showed a 25-50% reduction of the urban heat island effect during peak temperatures. ... View More
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Textile Additive Expedites Breakdown of Stubborn, Synthetic Fibers
Despite its potential to address microplastic pollution on a number of fronts, the makers of CiCLO stress they don’t want to enable more unnecessary plastic consumption justified by ‘biodegradability.’ ... View More
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Report Shows Path to Zero-Emission Passenger Transport with 'More Mobility and Less Mining'
A new report shows a just pathway to zero-emission urban mobility. Simple changes such as smaller EV batteries can greatly improve resource-use efficiency; but holistically reducing car dependence will be paramount. ... View More
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