IEA: Growth of renewables in major economies moving world closer to tripling goal. Should we expect greater ambitions in country NDCs in 2025?
See why the Brazilian policy for paying for environmental services as of January 2021 still does not fully work.
Payments for a wide range of environmental services in Brazil were established by law in 2021. See what they would be. And tomorrow we will comment on why they still don't work fully.
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Dec 12, 20222 min readEU takes steps towards first voluntary carbon removal certificationLast November 30 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a first EU-wide voluntary framework to reliably certify high-quality...
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Dec 5, 20221 min readJapan: New technologies to capture CO2 from airNature on one side, and technology on the other. And science on both. "Pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere like trees do, is...
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