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And the winner of Elon Musk’s carbon removal XPRIZE is ...

by Emily Pontecorvo

Why Microsoft is buying carbon credits from a pulp and paper mill

Oregon Capital Chronicle

Forest owner wants to put burned acreage back into carbon offset market, but critics skeptical

by Alex Baumhardt

Wildfires threaten climate efforts in California and globally

by Anne C. Mulkern

Google, Microsoft, others invest $300 million in crushed rocks as CO2 removal solution

Carbon markets look to put a turbulent 2024 behind with signs pointing to an uptick

How vintage Nike Airs exposed a flaw in a $700 million carbon market

Regenerative agriculture is sold as a climate solution. Can it do all it says?

Google locks in carbon removal at a milestone price: $100 a ton

by Emily Pontecorvo

Business Insider

The inside truth about climate risk models that investors and companies don’t know, and how it’s impacting valuations

by Laila Maidan

Carbon credits are literally going up in smoke as wildfires threaten their sustainability

by Seamus Webster

These cities will be too hot for the Olympics by 2050

by Lou Robinson + Angela Dewan

Clashing risk predictions cast doubt on black box climate models

The risky business of predicting where climate disaster will hit

by Eric Roston + Krishna Karra + Leslie Kaufman + Sinduja Rangarajan

Financial Times

Californian fires burn trees in company carbon schemes

by Aime Williams + Kenza Bryan

Carbon market faces upheaval as 32% of all credits fail test

by Natasha White + Akshat Rathi

Toward a more perfect carbon removal standard

by Emily Pontecorvo

Extreme heat may prevent D.C. area from hosting future Summer Olympics

Also posted on Axios Local sites in North Carolina, Georgia, California, and more.

Extreme heat threatens future summer Olympics

by Rahul Mukherjee + Erin Davis + Jared Whalen + Will Chase + Gabriella Turrisi

The Journalist’s Resource

Carbon offsets: 4 things journalists need to understand

by Clark Merrefield

The Straits Times

Carbon credit project half the size of Singapore wins court reprieve

BP-owned company is selling carbon credits on trees that aren’t in danger, analysis finds

by Luke Barratt + Miranda Green

Carbon offsets endorsed by key oversight body questioned by NGO

by Natasha White

Carbon removal’s existential question

by Emily Pontecorvo

Carbon credits fuel wildfire restoration in Northwest forests

by Kale Williams

OSS for Climate

Max Jones on CarbonPlan

by Richard Littauer

Biochar is dominating the carbon removal market — but no one seems to care

by Katie Brigham

What a less-buttery biscuit means for late-session jams

by Debra Kahn + Alex Nieves + Blanca Begert + Camille Von Kaenel

Can corn ethanol really help decarbonize US air travel?

by Maria Gallucci

Does carbon removal need to be dumb to work?

by Emily Pontecorvo

MIT Technology Review

Why new ethanol aviation fuel tax subsidies aren’t a clear climate win

by James Temple

World’s largest forestry offsets project has license revoked

by Sheryl Tian Tong Lee

With climate change affecting the Arctic Winter Games, how can the event itself be greener?

by Luke Carroll

The best way to find out if we can cool the planet

by Jeremy Freeman

The Texas wildfire burned surprising source of carbon credits: soil

Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law and the soil carbon revolution

Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change

by Wil Burns + Anna Madlener

Carbon offsets have a fatal flaw

by Grayson Badgley

Analysis: New review for zero-rated BC forest carbon project after key data surfaces

by Allison Gacad

The New Republic

Carbon offsets (Taylor’s version)

by Kate Aronoff

There is no sustainable earth: Part 1

McKinsey & Company

Carbon removals: How to scale a new gigaton industry

by Peter Mannion + Emma Parry + Jonathan Scott + Mark Patel + Erik Ringvold

Chicago Tribune

In 1st trial of its kind in the U.S., Irish startup spreads concrete dust on Illinois farm field to remove CO2 from the air

by Adriana Pérez

Financial Times

Letter: Why carbon offsets are no answer to the climate crisis

by Grayson Badgley

Carbon offset market faces chaos as African mega-project collapses

by Ben Elgin + Natasha White

Washington Post

Where heat worsens hunger

by Kareem Fahim + Ali Al-Mujahed + Lorenzo Tugnoli

The New Republic

How this popular climate “solution” could tank our progress

by Kate Aronoff

In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change?

by Josh Gabbatiss et al.,

Washington Post

The inequality of heat

by Annie Gowen + Niko Kommenda + Simon Ducroquet + Anant Gupta + Atul Loke

Washington Post

Climate-linked ills threaten humanity

by Annie Gowen + Niko Kommenda + Saiyna Bashir

Washington Post

Where dangerous heat is surging

by Niko Kommenda + Shannon Osaka + Simon Ducroquet + Veronica Penney

Adirondack Explorer

Carbon offsets and the value of Adirondack trees

by Chloe Bennett

A giant Oregon wildfire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change

This little-known federal regulator could crack down on fraudulent carbon offsets

by Joseph Winters

With oil production in freefall, Alaska, America’s worst state for business, chases a new carbon boom

Climate in the Gorge: 4 ways emissions, warming hurt national scenic area

An industry that actually welcomes regulation

by Lara Williams

Canada’s explosive wildfires have damaged a forest carbon offset project

by Natasha White + Zahra Hirji

The New Republic

Climate fraud on America’s last frontier

by Stephen Lezak

A greenwashing lawsuit against Delta aims to set a precedent

by Kendra Pierre-Louis

MIT Technology Review

Rivian hopes to earn carbon credits for its home electric vehicle chargers

by James Temple

This climate science guide looks like an art book for a reason

by Zachary Petit

MIT Technology Review

Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees”

by Boyce Upholt

MIT Technology Review

Meta’s former CTO has a new $50 million project: ocean-based carbon removal

by James Temple

Insurers retreat under anti-ESG fire

by Debra Kahn + Jordan Wolman

Alaska News Nightly

Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, May 23, 2023

by Tim Rockey + Alaska Public Radio - Anchorage

Alaska Public Radio

Alaska is getting into the carbon market. What does that mean for the budget – and the climate?

by Kavitha George + Alaska Public Radio - Anchorage

MIT Tech Review

Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda

Welp, we gotta start pulling CO2 out of the air

A Taylor Swift moment for carbon markets

by Debra Kahn + Allison Prang + Jordan Wolman

A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry

by Emily Pontecorvo

Public News Service

U.S. Carbon Farming Takes Root, but Do Economics Add Up?

by Brett Peveto

USDA to help farmers navigate the murky world of soil carbon offsets

by Emily Pontecorvo

1 big thing: The growing push to ensure carbon removal has integrity

by Ben Gemen + Andrew Freedman

The Seattle Times

DNR wants in on WA’s emerging carbon-credit market

by Isabella Breda

Les pollueurs du Québec utilisent des crédits carbone dont les bénéfices climatiques seraient exagérés

by Alexis Riopel

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Mit Zertifikaten den Wald und die Welt retten? Diese Hoffnung zerplatzt

by Kalina Oroschakoff

Here’s what we know about Kerry’s offset gambit

by Jean Chemnick + Sara Schonhardt

EXPLAINER: Forest carbon credits aim to offset pollution

by Suman Naishadham

California’s carbon offsetting may actually be increasing emissions

by Lois Parshley

The Sacramento Bee

California approves sweeping climate change strategy that’s short on details

What would a more sustainable World Cup look like?

by Suman Naishadham

U.S. carbon farming takes root - but do the economics add up?

by Carey L. Biron

Inside Climate News

Carbon removal is coming to fossil fuel country. Can it bring jobs and climate action?

by Nicholas Kusnetz

Los Angeles Times

Op-Ed: California’s carbon-offset forests aren’t trapping much carbon. Here’s how to do better

by Shane Coffield + James Randerson

FIFA claims the world cup in Qatar is "carbon neutral" 🤔

by Caresse Haaser

Don’t be fooled by ‘carbon neutral’ shipping

by Katie Okamoto

Junk carbon offsets are what make these big companies ‘carbon neutral’

by Akshat Rathi + Natasha White + Demetrios Pogkas

Los Angeles Times

California unveils plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2045

by Tony Briscoe

Is regenerative agriculture the future of farming or the next greenwashing fad?

by Adele Peters

Oil giant Occidental wants to remake itself as a climate tech leader in Texas

by Justine Calma

Slashing greenhouse gases: California revises climate change strategy

Kerry’s climate credit plan risks payouts for carbon-cutting mirage

by Jennifer A Dlouhy + Akshat Rathi

The New Republic

The U.S. is presenting a bad, distracting plan at U.N. climate talks

by Kate Aronoff

Qatar’s promise of ‘carbon-neutral’ World Cup raises doubts

by Suman Naishadham

The Washington Post

Are carbon markets helping to slow climate change? Maybe.

by Jessica F. Green

Los Angeles Times

California set a record for greenhouse gas reductions in 2020, but it means nothing

by Tony Briscoe

Here’s how carbon offsets can live up to their bold promises

by Taylor Moore

Infighting among carbon credit verification bodies

Can you fight the climate crisis with crypto?

by Ashley Jiang + Fabio Teixeira + Avi Asher-Schapiro

Los Angeles Times

Proposition 30 has voters deciding on a tax for zero-emission vehicles. What you need to know

by Russ Mitchell

Yale Environment 360

Phantom forests: why ambitious tree planting projects are failing

Why $100 per ton is the carbon removal industry’s holy grail

The fight to define the carbon offset market’s future

by Lisa Martine Jenkins

Without Manchin deal, can U.S. develop enough clean energy?

by Benjamin Storrow

Northcoast Environmental Center

New research calls into question carbon offsets from northwest California forests

by Outside News Source

Offsets aflame: The risk of wildfires to tree-planting carbon credits

A cleaner future for flight — aviation needs a radical redesign

by Steffen Kallbekken + David G. Victor

The New Republic

Why resolving Democrats’ internal war on climate policy will be hard

by Kate Aronoff

Thomson Reuters Foundation

What happened when crypto companies entered the carbon market?

by Fabio Teixeira + Avi Asher-Schapiro

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Fears of ‘subprime’ carbon assets stall crypto rainforest mission

by Fabio Teixeira + Avi Asher-Schapiro

All Biden has to do now is change the way we live

Facing criticism, state amps up its climate change blueprint

Climate Risk Podcast

How politics shapes climate policy: insights for risk professionals

Los Angeles Times

California vows to ban gas-fueled cars. But its record on big climate promises is mixed

by Hayley Smith + Tony Briscoe

California approves a wave of aggressive new climate measures

The dirt on soil carbon credits

Carbon offsets have serious issues. Is it even possible to fix them?

by Adele Peters

MIT Tech Review

We must fundamentally rethink "net-zero" climate plans. Here are six ways.

by James Temple

Forest Service to aid private owners on carbon markets, climate

by Ellyn Ferguson

Crypto can’t fix carbon offsets - but crypto fans are trying anyway

by Justine Calma

Financial Times

The utopian world where carbon and crypto meet

The green transition is happening fast. The climate bill will only speed it up.

by David Wallace-Wells

CBS Saturday Morning

Western wildfires threaten carbon offsets

The American Prospect

Corn ethanol investors poised to profit from inflation reduction act

California’s Newsom wants to accelerate key climate goals

by Kathleen Ronayne + Adam Beam

Newsom to Legislature: Act fast to enact new climate change targets

by Rachel Becker + Julie Cart

Wildfires are destroying California’s forest carbon credit reserves, study says

by Nichola Groom

Fires put California’s forest offset program at risk of collapse

Wildfires have burned through California‘s 100-year carbon insurance in 10 years, study finds

by Aaron Gordon

Financial Times

Wildfires destroy almost all forest carbon offsets in 100-year reserve, study says

by Camilla Hodges

Now is your chance to fix the carbon offset market

by Akshat Rathi + Natasha White

Gavin Newsom tells California air pollution agency to ‘up our game’ on climate, carbon

Los Angeles Times

California hopes to fight global warming by pumping CO2 underground. Some call it a ruse.

by Tony Briscoe

Wall Street Journal

What are carbon offsets, and can they combat climate change?

Carbon removal trade group launches with ‘Hippocratic oath‘ for the industry

by Emily Pontecorvo

People are swearing off air travel because of climate anxiety

by Jasmin Singer

How to save a planet

Air conditioned stadiums. Cruise ships. New hotels. Can the World Cup in Qatar really be carbon neutral?

by Alex Bloomberg

Does buying a carbon offset for your laptop really help the planet?

by Kimber Streams

Popular Science

Crypto companies are getting into carbon credits. But can they actually help the climate?

by Kristine Liao

Associated Press

California emissions, carbon neutrality plan draws criticism

by Kathleen Ronayne

MIT Tech Review

Running Tide is facing scientist departures and growing concerns over seaweed sinking for carbon removal

by James Temple

A hotter, poorer, and less free America

by Robinson Meyer

Offsets watchdog aiming for clarity on net zero risks creating confusion

by Natasha White + Akshat Rathi

Wildfires in US west match climate projections ‘eerily’ well

Let’s not pretend planting trees is a permanent climate solution

by Zeke Hausfather

Wendover Productions

The carbon offset problem

by Sam Denby + Tristan Purdy

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: California needs to slash carbon pollution. Its pie-in-the-sky plan falls short.

by Editorial Board

Climate controversy: California’s plan for handling crisis is flawed, advisors say

Danny Cullenward on California’s shaky climate plans

by David Roberts

The crypto industry was on its way to changing the carbon-credit market, until it hit a major roadblock

by Andrew R. Chow

MIT Tech Review

Inside Charm Industrial’s big bet on corn stalks for carbon removal

by James Temple

Can carbon offsets save the planet?

by Alejandro Alba

The American Prospect

California might pass its own personal build back better

Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

Do airline climate offsets really work? Here’s the good news, and the bad.

by Maggie Astor

Wildfire, drought, and insects threaten forests in the United States

by Rishika Pardikar

State unveils new climate change blueprint packed with strategies tackling fossil fuels

National Geographic

Polluters are using forests as ‘carbon offsets.’ Climate change has other plans.

Bloomberg Green Summit

The next era of carbon removal

by Akshat Rathi

How much carbon dioxide removal do we actually need?

Talk Python Podcast

Pangeo data ecosystem

by Michael Kennedy

Navigating the net-zero thicket

by Debra Kahn + Jordan Wolman

Counting the carbon costs of Verra’s shift to the short term

The biggest crypto effort to end useless carbon offsets is backfiring

by Akshat Rathi + Natasha White

Distressed-debt deal makes people mad

Inside Climate News

Occidental is eyeing California’s clean fuels market to fund Texas carbon removal plant

by Nicholas Kusnetz

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Racing to net-zero: A captivating but distant ambition

by Daniel Stein + Na’im Merchant

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Building a community and technology stack for scalable big data geoscience at Pangeo — Episode 358

by Tobias Macey

Los Angeles Times

Is California’s cap-and-trade program hurting the environment more than helping it?

by Jonah Valdez

This timber company sold millions of dollars of useless carbon offsets

Startups are popping up to offer carbon offsets. It’s raising thorny questions.

As evidence of cap and trade problems mounts, California air regulators remain defiant

California won’t immediately change pollution credit program

by Kathleen Ronayne

Experts — once again — tell Senate panel that California’s key climate change strategy is flawed

Saved pollution credits may hinder California climate goals

by Kathleen Ronayne

How to avoid buying dodgy offsets

by Akshat Rathi

European Commission

Sustainable Carbon Cycles Conference, Plenary Session III: High expectation from society on carbon removals

by Wijnand Stoefs

The buzz around carbon removal is drawing jobseekers in droves

by Maria Gallucci

Price hike marks new era for Calif. cap and trade

Trying to be (actually) carbon neutral: Three lessons

by Julia Reichelstein

Wall Street Journal

Wildfires are hurting California program to fight climate change

Los Angeles Times

Boiling point: If a sprawling suburb ditches natural gas, is it good for the climate?

American Geophysical Union

AGU TV 2021: Climate change & the anthropocene

by Nicondra Norwood

MIT Tech Review

How a new global carbon market could exaggerate climate progress

by James Temple

The latest farm product: Carbon credits

by Elizabeth G. Dunn

Energy forum: The end of oil?

With limited EV options, Uber embraces carbon offsets in Latin America

by Cassandra Garrison

The COP26 message? We are trusting big business, not states, to fix the climate crisis.

The New Republic

Fossil fuel executives at the Glasgow climate talks are miffed with the media

by Kate Aronoff

There isn’t enough space for all of the trees companies want to plant

by Amanda Peacher

A $130T climate promise is greeted with suspicion

by Zack Colman + Lorraine Woellert

A closer look: UN climate summit in Scotland

New York Magazine

The case for climate reparations

by David Wallace-Wells

California delegation heads to high stakes UN climate summit

by Alexis Madrigal

Are global warming summits still cool?

by Shawn Hubler

If a tree doesn’t fall in the forest...

California is banking on forests to reduce emissions. What happens when they go up in smoke?

by Emily Pontecorvo + Shannon Osaka

St. Cloud Times

Minnesota farmers are getting paid to fight climate change by cultivating a new cash crop: carbon

by Nora G. Hertel

Carbon offsets can be tough to get right

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Dems seek to salvage climate goals with taxes, regs

by Benjamin Storrow + Jean Chemnick

How trading CO₂ could save the climate

by Isabelle Gerretsen

How our SN 10 scientists have responded to tumultuous times

by Science News Staff

Satellite startup wants to fight climate crisis with next-level data

by Ashlee Vance

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO₂-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

by Lucas Joppa + Amy Luers + Elizabeth Willmott + S. Julio Friedmann + Steven P. Hamburg + Rafael Broze

These carbon-capturing robotic seaweed farms are like planting forests in the ocean

by Adele Peters

Net zero isn’t enough. We need to get to net negative.

MIT Tech Review

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science

by James Temple

Los Angeles Times

Burned trees and billions in cash: How a California climate program lets companies keep polluting

Financial Times

Carbon offsets: A license to pollute or a path to net zero emissions?

by Camilla Hodgson + Billy Nauman

Wildfires are ravaging forests set aside to soak up greenhouse gases

by Winston Choi-Schagrin

Wildfires are burning up trees meant to fight climate change: 'It’s definitely not working'

by Janet Wilson + Christel Hayes

MIT Tech Review

Lawmakers question california cap and trade policies, citing ProPublica report

by Lisa Song + James Temple

Scientists raise doubts over Leon’s ‘carbon-neutral’ burgers

by Patrick Greenfield

Der Tagesspiegel

Bewegung am CO2-Kompensationsmarkt

by Alicia Prager

Emissions offsets ease travel guilt, but do they reduce carbon footprints?

by Amanda Peacher

California Legislature

Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies testimony

by Danny Cullenward

How to sell 'carbon neutral' fossil fuel that doesn't exist

by Stephen Stapczynski + Akshat Rathi + Godfrey Marawanyika

The Energy Gang

As profits rise, oil majors face new pressures

by Stephen Lacey + Katherine Hamilton + Ed Crooks

Whom are we trying to fool?

Present at the creation of a climate alliance—or a climate conflict

The Independent

Carbon offset programs of companies like Microsoft, BP go up in smoke as wildfires decimate forests

by Sheila Flynn

Financial Times

US forest fires threaten carbon offsets as company-linked trees burn

by Camilla Hodgson

The Bootleg fire is burning through trees that are being used as carbon offsets

by Adele Peters

Western wildfires are sending carbon offsets up in smoke

MIT Tech Review

The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already reversed it.

by James Temple

Wildfires rage and a tool to combat climate change goes up in smoke

Los Angeles Times

Op-Ed: How California can lead the way on climate-protecting technologies

by David G. Victor + Ryan Hanna

Bootleg Fire is burning up carbon offsets

by Daniel Wolfe + Tal Yellin

Carbon offsets private market is completely unregulated, says policy expert

The Winklevoss's crypto carbon capture conundrum

by Liam Denning

MIT Tech Review

Carbon removal hype is becoming a dangerous distraction

by James Temple

The US is about to go all-in on paying farmers and foresters to trap carbon

by Nathanael Johnson + Ysabelle Kempe

California’s climate program is actually adding carbon to the atmosphere

by Sophie Bushwick

California knows how to set climate goals. But can it meet them?

by Anne C. Mulkern

California not doing as well as it thinks in reducing carbon, investigation finds

Wall Street’s favorite climate solution is mired in disagreements

by Jess Shankleman + Akshat Rathi

Turning carbon offsets into catnip for commodities traders

by Akshat Rathi

MIT Tech Review

A startup using minerals to draw down CO₂ has scored funding — and its first buyer

by James Temple

Wall Street Journal

Nonprofit seeks to trap carbon in the financial markets

by Jenna Telesca

Governor caught between key Democratic blocs on oil setbacks

by Kathleen Ronayne

Carbon offsets are going primetime and they’re not ready

by Tim McDonnell

Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

by Emily Pontecorvo

The Middletown Press

Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback

by Jan Ellen Spiegel

Priming the pump for high-priced, high-promise carbon removal tech

by Jeff St. John

Startup that rates carbon offsets finds almost half fall short

by Will Mathis + Ivan Levingston

California’s carbon offset program might be pumping millions of tons CO₂ into the air, new study says

by Madeleine Brand

Offsetting emissions using forests

by Peter O'Dowd + Tonya Mosley

US News & World Report

Washington passed its cap-and-trade climate legislation. Now what?

by Levi Pulkkinen

Carbon pricing hits a brick wall on the left

by Casey R. Pickett + Naomi Shimberg + Jacob Miller

MIT Tech Review

A nonprofit promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees.

by Lisa Song + James Temple

Emission Impossible

by Julia Simon + Amanda Aronczyk

The New Republic

BP’s suspicious support for a carbon market in Washington state

by Kate Aronoff

California program overestimates climate benefits of forest offsets

by Peter Henderson

California’s carbon offset program is a complete disaster

The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO₂ reductions

by Justine Calma

MIT Tech Review

The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere

by Lisa Song + James Temple

National Geographic

Biden wants to cut U.S. climate pollution in half—here’s how

by Madeleine Stone

How to think about negative emissions in the climate fight

by Akshat Rathi

Energy Policy Now

A primer on carbon dioxide removal

Digging into the complex, confusing and contentious world of soil carbon offsets

Burned by carbon pricing, Dems chart new course on climate

by Benjamin Storrow + Adam Aton

Financial Times

Carney task force confronts concerns over carbon credits market

by Camilla Hodgson

Does carbon pricing work? Researchers are skeptical.

by Chelsea Harvey

Columbia Insight

Warm Springs evaluates carbon sequester project in wake of wildfire

by Michael Kohn

The jury is still out on carbon credits

by Caroline Hepker + Roger Hearing

My Climate Journey

by Jason Jacobs

The real trees delivering fake corporate climate progress

by Ben Elgin + Zachary Mider

Where I find hope

These trees are not what they seem

In the quest for carbon offsets, (almost) anything goes

Want to offset your carbon footprint? Here’s what you need to know.

by Scott K. Johnson

The best inventions of 2020: The climate cop

by J.R. Sullivan

This Oregon forest was supposed to store carbon for 100 years. Now it’s on fire.

by Emily Pontecorvo + Shannon Osaka

Why planting trees won’t save us

by Jeff Goodell

Bleak cap-and-trade results raise doubts about program

by Anne C. Mulkern

MIT Tech Review

Why we can’t count on carbon-sucking farms to slow climate change

by James Temple

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