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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. Mulligan, J., Ellison, G.,

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Helping Washington’s Coastal Forests Prepare for the Future

Washington Nature

When The Nature Conservancy purchased the Ellsworth Creek Preserve in 2001, just a fraction of the old-growth forest remained. In addition to sopping up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, old-growth forests may be better at adapting to a changing environment than younger forests. But, why is that?

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

million to the party since 2001, including £38,000 to Rishi Sunak’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid. The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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A Nobel pursuit

Real Climate

The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).

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New California Legislation Would Be a Major Step Forward for Climate Disclosure

Law Columbia

It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19] The vote on it was 24-9. 26] About 8,000 facilities are required to report. [27] NASA Finds June 2023 Hottest on Record,” July 13, 2023, [link].

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

When fuels are burned to create energy in a process called combustion, black carbon along with carbon monoxide and other compounds are created because there is not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for the reaction to go to completion. But there’s a bright side to our black carbon problems: it doesn’t live very long.