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Global climate experts convene in Kenya for first national workshop on carbon removal - Alliance for ScienceWhen negotiators at the Glasgow COP26 summit agreed to create a global carbon credit offset trading market in November 2021, the move was billed as an effort in the right direction toward slowing climate change. However, climate action advocates, activists, and other stakeholders soon realized this was not the magic bullet in the fight against […]

As carbon removal grows, so do methods of certification

Oops, we're doing it again. Last week, we shared this paper on the rapidly evolving carbon removal certification ecosystem, but we think it merits a closer look. The authors provide a snapshot of existing protocols and the relationships between them. They found a dizzying 125 certification methodologies from 30 different organizations across 23 CDR approaches, mostly land-based. Though the current set of protocols is messy and (honestly) a little intimidating, this overview is an important first step in solving one of the most pressing problems for the industry: the creation of high-quality standards for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) [...]

Stéphanie Arcusa Makes a Global Climate ImpactStéphanie Arcusa is a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and an active advocate for climate policy. Stéphanie shares how the NSPN community has improved her policy knowledge and led to global climate impacts.

The Science We Need to Assess Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal - EosAs companies begin selling credits for marine carbon dioxide removal in largely unregulated marketplaces, scientists must develop standards for assessing the effectiveness of removal methods.

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