Satellites become valuable new tool for governments, industry to cut emissions

5 years 8 months ago
For years, people used satellites to observe the Earth’s climate. Now, orbital sensing offers a crucial new way to protect it, by giving us new abilities to identify, measure, and ultimately verify cuts in emissions of methane – a highly potent greenhouse gas. Two new pieces of research led by EDF scientists demonstrate the growing […]
Mark Brownstein

Satellites become valuable new tool for governments, industry to cut emissions

5 years 8 months ago

For years, people used satellites to observe the Earth’s climate. Now, orbital sensing offers a crucial new way to protect it, by giving us new abilities to identify, measure, and ultimately verify cuts in emissions of methane – a highly potent greenhouse gas. Two new pieces of research led by EDF scientists demonstrate the growing […]

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Mark Brownstein

Will governments disappoint again on carbon accounting at upcoming aviation meetings?

5 years 8 months ago
Some major companies, including airlines, took the lead last December in Katowice, Poland in rejecting the use of dubious carbon credits toward their climate efforts. Despite this drumbeat against bad rules for cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, experienced government negotiators fell short and did not finalize these guidelines in Katowice. This […]
Kristin Qui

Will governments disappoint again on carbon accounting at upcoming aviation meetings?

5 years 8 months ago
Some major companies, including airlines, took the lead last December in Katowice, Poland in rejecting the use of dubious carbon credits toward their climate efforts. Despite this drumbeat against bad rules for cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, experienced government negotiators fell short and did not finalize these guidelines in Katowice. This […]
Kristin Qui

Will governments disappoint again on carbon accounting at upcoming aviation meetings?

5 years 8 months ago
Some major companies, including airlines, took the lead last December in Katowice, Poland in rejecting the use of dubious carbon credits toward their climate efforts. Despite this drumbeat against bad rules for cooperative approaches under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, experienced government negotiators fell short and did not finalize these guidelines in Katowice. This […]
Kristin Qui

Wheeler Will Not Protect North Carolina

5 years 8 months ago

Written by Moms Clean Air Force

This op-ed was written by Kelle Pressley-Perkins. She is a Moms Clean Air Force member from Charlotte, North Carolina. The post originally appeared on WRAL.com: One of the real perks of being a mother to nine home-schooled children is that I make sure our family talks...

Moms Clean Air Force

Why Disney World is betting on clean energy

5 years 8 months ago
“Environmental stewardship and conservation were engrained in The Walt Disney Company from the beginning,” Angie Renner recently told me. Angie is an Environmental Integration Director at Walt Disney World Resort, and today she says the company is investing in new technologies and renewable energy projects that have thus far cut greenhouse gas emissions nearly in […]
Jake Hiller

No time to waste: What lies ahead in New Mexico on methane policy?

5 years 8 months ago
The Cabinet Room was buzzing with (clean) energy on Tuesday as New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was joined by her Energy Minerals and Natural Resources (EMNRD) Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst and Environment Secretary Jim Kenney to sign one of the strongest climate executive orders in the nation. Crucially, the order also directs New Mexico’s […]
Jon Goldstein