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On carbon offsets, Wirecutter story doesn’t cut it

By Bruno Vander Velde

March 1, 2023
A recent article claims that buying carbon offsets for your flight doesn't help the climate crisis. This conclusion is bafflingly wrong: Paying to protect an area of forest to offset the climate footprint of your flight does in fact — demonstrably and verifiably — help.
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News Spotlight: Indigenous land stewardship key to preserving Amazon carbon sinks

By Matthew Ribel

January 23, 2023
In case you missed it: The Amazon is the ecological jewel of the world, home to nearly 400 billion trees and 10,000 species at risk of extinction. It’s also the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink. Yet a new report shows those climate benefits are not uniformly distributed.
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In race to reach net zero, businesses look to carbon credits, survey finds

By Mary Kate McCoy

January 12, 2023
Business leaders recognize the urgency of the climate crisis — and are taking action, according to a new report.
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3 things you may have missed at the UN climate talks

By Mary Kate McCoy

November 21, 2022
After weeks of negotiations, the United Nations climate talks, known as COP27, wrapped up nearly two days past deadline — striking a last-minute, historic agreement on this session’s most anticipated issue: payments for climate change damages to developing countries.
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What on Earth is ‘climate adaptation’?

By Kiley Price, Mary Kate McCoy

November 9, 2022
From “blue carbon” to “ecosystem services,” environmental jargon is everywhere these days. Conservation International looks to make sense of it in an occasional explainer series. In this installment, we explore “climate adaptation.”
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