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 Stories About: carbon offsets AND carbon sequestration AND climate AND climate change mitigation AND energy AND geoengineering AND oceans
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Rule three of offsets: No geo-engineering
Smacking down a bad idea |
Joseph Romm |
27 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I know you've all been eagerly waiting for this (don't worry, I don't have many more rules). I got sidetracked by last week's offset hearing. Offset projects should deliver climate benefits with high confidence -- that's a key reason trees make lousy offsets, especially non-urban, non-tropical trees. An even more dubious source of offsets is geo-engineering, which is 'the intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment' (PDF) to counter ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, geoengineering, oceans (all these topics) |
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