The world’s appetite for flying keeps on growing, fuelling concerns about how to shrink the carbon footprint of air travel – today the cause of about 2.5% of all energy-related emissions. While that’s a relatively small share of global emissions, it looks set to increase in the decades to come as other sectors, such as […]
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Brazilian firm behind SAF plan found growing oil palm on deforested Amazon land
Discovery of illegal palm crops comes as Grupo BBF grapples with financial problems sparked by warnings over its human rights record
Indigenous peoples want to take part in the carbon market because of their role in preserving the Amazon
Leaders defend that part of the resources should guarantee and maintain their territories. The way that carbon markets will work will be defined until the end of COP26.
Targeted enforcement saved a Massachusetts-worth of Amazon rainforest in 3 years
The program, which imposes stiff penalties on municipalities that have excessively high deforestation rates, effectively avoided 1.23 billion tons of carbon emissions during the period.