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02.07.24
We’re returning our unsolicited donation from FTX
Two years ago, we received a donation we didn’t ask for. Last month, we were asked to send it back.
Jeremy Freeman
01.08.24
We updated the Compliance Users tool to include the latest available cap-and-trade program data about who is using which offsets.
Freya Chay
12.15.23
The open source Python library Kerchunk can speed up climate research.
Raphael Hagen
Max Jones
Oriana Chegwidden
12.12.23
We’ve relaxed the data pre-processing requirements that limit the flexibility of our mapping toolkit. Here’s how we did it.
Kata Martin
Max Jones
Anderson Banihirwe
11.29.23
New paperwork shows that carbon losses insured by California’s forest offset buffer pool are higher than previously estimated.
Grayson Badgley
10.11.23
Lime is used to manage soil pH in many agricultural fields and can remove carbon from the atmosphere when it weathers. We are updating our CDR Verification Framework tool to emphasize that changes in lime use and weathering should be accounted for in enhanced weathering and biochar deployments.
Tyler Kukla
Freya Chay
10.02.23
Figuring out the location of an offset project shouldn't involve a scavenger hunt.
Grayson Badgley
09.07.23
“Measurements in Geochemical Carbon Dioxide Removal” by Campbell et al. presents a timely synthesis of measurement techniques to support CDR decision-making with a strong technical foundation.
Tyler Kukla
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09.05.23
Announcing the release of a new extreme heat dataset, and reflecting on why it’s important to do this kind of work in the open.
Oriana Chegwidden
08.31.23
We added near real-time satellite data to our fire and offset project monitoring tool to highlight active and changing portions of fires.
Max Jones
Kata Martin
Raphael Hagen
08.02.23
New reporting indicates that the wildfire component of California's buffer pool is almost surely depleted.
Grayson Badgley
04.10.23
We added new pathways (direct ocean removal, alkaline waste mineralization, and biochar), modified existing pathways, and upgraded the tool with improved versioning, additional documentation, and the ability to see how components are shared across pathways.
Freya Chay
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03.29.23
Carbon losses from the Bootleg Fire are severe enough to cause the termination of a forest offset project in Oregon.
Grayson Badgley
03.21.23
A new paper about declining habitat suitability for conifers in California's Sierra Nevada demonstrates the shaky scientific foundations of California's forest offsets program.
Grayson Badgley
02.23.23
We updated the Compliance Users tool to include the latest available cap-and-trade program data about who is using which offsets.
Freya Chay
02.10.23
We summarize a public letter from 35 organizations across the CDR ecosystem calling for a scientifically-grounded standards body for long-duration CDR that could review and harmonize emerging protocols.
Freya Chay
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01.30.23
Highlighting scientific factors that can influence climate risk products.
Oriana Chegwidden
Sadie Frank
01.20.23
Missed deadlines and paperwork discrepancies obscure the status of California’s forest carbon offset buffer pool.
Grayson Badgley
Danny Cullenward
12.20.22
We analyze different ways the Federal Insurance Office could identify the most climate-vulnerable states.
Oriana Chegwidden
Sadie Frank
12.19.22
Updating our representation of Enhanced Weathering in the CDR Verification Framework in response to helpful feedback.
Freya Chay
12.01.22
Offset projects hit by recent wildfires report larger carbon losses than we had projected.
Grayson Badgley
Danny Cullenward
09.20.22
Why we are archiving the CDR Database and shifting our attention to other priorities in the carbon removal ecosystem.
Jeremy Freeman
Danny Cullenward
Freya Chay
09.14.22
KlimaDAO sidesteps CarbonPlan’s criticisms of offset credit quality.
Danny Cullenward
09.02.22
We describe our experiences building cloud-based data analysis pipelines for climate model downscaling, including specific challenges we faced and lessons we learned.
Raphael Hagen
Anderson Banihirwe
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08.19.22
We hosted a workshop with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law (ICRRL) on physical climate risk and financial regulation.
Sadie Frank
Oriana Chegwidden
08.08.22
We recently attended the 21st annual Scientific Computing with Python conference. Here we share highlights from the tutorials and presentations.
Max Jones
Anderson Banihirwe
Joe Hamman
06.24.22
We summarize our comments to the SEC on the agency's proposed climate-risk disclosure rule. In our comments, we commend the rule's robust approach to carbon offsets and encourage the SEC to strengthen the proposed provisions for carbon removal.
Sadie Frank
Danny Cullenward
06.16.22
We have updated our wildfire monitoring tool in preparation for the 2022 fire season.
Grayson Badgley
Jeremy Freeman
Joe Hamman
05.20.22
Relying on public data, our recent seaweed farming modeling work made key assumptions about seaweed cultivation. We summarize why making these assumptions was necessary, and why as a result the modeled costs may not capture current advances taking place in the field.
Freya Chay
04.25.22
We summarize two recent comment letters about Verra’s proposed use of ton-year accounting to issue carbon offset credits — including via a proposed methodology developed by NCX which would credit harvest deferrals as short as a single year.
Freya Chay
Danny Cullenward
Grayson Badgley
02.18.22
We welcome the OCC's draft climate-related financial risk management principles and point out core tensions that could arise in implementation.
Sadie Frank
02.16.22
An open source implementation of forest biomass estimation using LiDAR.
Cindy Chiao
Oriana Chegwidden
Joe Hamman
01.05.22
A new tool for tracking the use of carbon offsets for compliance in California's cap-and-trade program.
Freya Chay
Jeremy Freeman
Danny Cullenward
12.15.21
Analysis of 11 new proposals from Stripe’s Fall 2021 CDR procurement.
Freya Chay
11.10.21
We encourage the USDA to directly procure "climate-smart" commodities instead of subsidizing carbon offsets.
Danny Cullenward
Sadie Frank
Jeremy Freeman
11.04.21
Why open data and analytics matter in addressing climate-related financial risk.
Sadie Frank
10.13.21
We analyzed three new soil carbon protocols and added them our interactive database.
Freya Chay
Danny Cullenward
09.27.21
Why rendering scientific data in web maps is so tough, and how we’re trying to solve it.
Jeremy Freeman
Kata Martin
Joe Hamman
09.16.21
Our contributions to the initial Climate TRACE data release, and what’s coming next.
Oriana Chegwidden
Cindy Chiao
Joe Hamman
09.14.21
Why we made this and what you'll find here.
Jeremy Freeman
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