Category: agriculture

Insetting as efficient way to make climate impact in the own supply chain

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A new climate strategy is gaining ground among companies to achieve their climate goals: insetting. This means offsetting or reducing CO₂ emissions within a company’s own value chain. This can replace investing in external reduction projects, offsetting: that compensating or reducing place outside company’s own supply chain. For example through tree planting or mangrove restoration…

Countries should take cooling targets

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While we passed the 1,5° Degrees, as the IPCC predicted an overshoot, and reductions will bring temperatures down later, I believe that in addition to emission reduction targets, which only take effect after years, countries should additionally make temperature reduction commitments and start cooling their countries and cities. For example greening of about 1/3 of…

IPCC: global failure and hope

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This weekend the Synthesis Report was adopted in Interlaken, Switzerland, of 6 recent IPCC reports on science, impacts, mitigation, landuse and oceans. It is a summary agreed by governments that sums up what governments can do to prevent the worse effects of climate change. The Synthesis will also be used in this years’ climate summit…