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How Canada Can Unlock the Power of Public Transit to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Enviromental Defense

By providing public transit operating funding, encouraging housing density near public transit, setting zero-emission bus procurement requirements and providing incentives for cities to speed up public transit service with dedicated bus lanes, Canada can cut polluting carbon emissions by 65 million tonnes from 2024 to 2035.

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Washington state just started capping carbon emissions. Here’s how it works.

Environmental News Bits

The new “cap-and-invest” program is designed to follow in the footsteps of California, where a cap-and-trade system began in 2013, while trying to learn from its missteps. Signed into law … Continue reading Washington state just started capping carbon emissions. Here’s how it works.

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Ontario is selling our Clean Energy Credit out from under us

Enviromental Defense

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. The agreement provides Microsoft ongoing Clean Energy Credits so it can claim to be using low carbon electricity. The secrecy of the scheme. The company has earned close to $7.2

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

This figure will increase to nearly half of the world’s population by the end of the century, the authors say, even with drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Limiting warming to 2?°C C rise we’re heading towards . Wood you believe?

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Land-use, climate change, and policy – Opportunities to act locally while thinking globally

HumanNature

In recent history, we have witnessed LUC exacerbating climate change due to disturbed soils, development of greenhouse gas (GHG) producing land uses, and more 4. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. Farmers struggle to break into booming carbon-credit market. Scale Carbon Emissions.

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What happened at COP26 in Glasgow?

Enviromental Defense

Ministers from poor, vulnerable countries call on those from rich, industrialized countries to do more: reduce their high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and assist people in the Global south to better cope with the climate disasters that keep mounting. But there was a big downside too. And it’s not a small amount.

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3 Pennsylvania Schools Achieve Green Ribbon Schools Recognition From U.S. Dept. of Education

PA Environment Daily

In 2013, it piloted a stormwater management project on the campus, planting over 600 trees and thousands of native plants, creating a woodland path, establishing a pollinator meadow, constructing a trail that links these elements together, and filling these spaces with environmental education signage.

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