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How Canada's LNG could hurt – not help – Asia's green transition

Corporate Knights

billion tonnes of planet-warming emissions into the atmosphere, leading international climate researchers to deem Montney the world’s sixth-largest “carbon bomb.” Yet this is still being presented by gas advocates as global progress on climate change. border that contains as much as 449 trillion cubic feet of gas.

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Carbon Removal Experts Push Back on $11 Trillion Investor Group’s Move to Ban Carbon Removals from Net Zero Goals

ESG Today

Signatory Zeke Hausfather, Climate Research Lead at Stripe said: “Mitigating climate change requires putting emission reductions front and center. But there is no avoiding the need to remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year by the middle of the 21st century if we want to meet our most ambitious climate goals.

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Universities Step Up to Offer Practical Solutions to Achieving Net Zero on their Campuses and Beyond

Sustainable Development Network

First is to achieve operational carbon neutrality, second is to expose all students to some form of climate action, and third is to increase the amount of climate research,” he said. Second Nature calls these leaders to make three commitments. He also said that over 15 years, the program has seen success. “It

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Calling Out the VCM Middlemen

Chris Hall

Blackbox market There is no publicly available data on the prices at which individual projects are traded or retired in VCMs, Aurelia Britsch, Global Head of Climate Research at Sustainable Fitch, told ESG Investor , noting that a large share of credit transactions is done over-the-counter, via private deals. VCMs: Help or hinder?

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Carbon Offsets Are Unscalable, Unjust, & Unfixable — Joe Romm

CleanTechnica

Noted climate researcher Joe Romm has published a paper debunking carbon offsets as basically useless and holding back emissions reductions.