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Industry push to earn carbon credits from Australia’s native forests would be a blow for nature and the climate
2024-08-12 by in The ConversationAustralia cannot risk any further declines in its biodiversity resulting from harvesting native forests, or actions that bring further risks to its emissions-reduction goal.
Tagged under: Carbon Offsetting | Trees | Forests | Australia
Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood
2024-02-28 in The BBCOwner Drax, which received £6bn in subsidies, continues to burn timber from Canadian trees - BBC finds.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Forests | Canada | Trees | Biomass
Set a global target for ecosystems
2020-02-22 (or before) in NatureThe conservation community must be able to track countries’ progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues. The conservation community must be able to track countries’ progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues.
Tagged under: Forests | Wildlife | Conservation | Coral Reefs | Wetlands | Trees
Planting trees is only a good news story if it’s done right | Bibi van der Zee
2019-12-25 by Bibi van der Zee in The GuardianIn the fight against global warming, we’d be better off preserving natural forests than planting new monoculture plantations, says Guardian journalist Bibi van der Zee
Tagged under: Global Warming | Activism | Carbon Capture and Storage | Forests | Trees | Deforestation | Climate Change
An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing
2019-05-22 by in Pro PublicaThe hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't — and won't — deliver the climate benefit they promise.
Tagged under: Deforestation | Climate Change | Forests | Carbon Capture and Storage | Carbon Offsetting | Trees
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