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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Aug 22, 20222 min readCarbon credits: blockchain and tokenization statusIssues such as blockchain and tokenization have also stirred the carbon credit market. Both on the business side and on the certifiers...
Aug 21, 20221 min readSeville: 1,000-year-old technique against city warmingFrom more shades to high-tech solutions, the city of Seville in Spain is implementing measures to mitigate the scorching heat. In summer,...
Aug 20, 20222 min readCNN: Air conditioning is bad for the planet. Time: Air Conditioning Will Not Save UsA few days ago we observed an interesting debate about air conditioning equipment. Yes that's right. And on purpose of the image below...
Aug 18, 20221 min readClimate change in the world challenge civil construction to adapt buildingsThe recent heat wave in Europe, the United States and China showed limitations of construction processes and materials. In England, a...
Aug 17, 20221 min readCarbon dating hampered by rising fossil-fuel emissionsScience. Carbon-dating techniques rely on the fact that there are several isotopes of carbon in the air. Stable carbon-12 is the most...
Aug 15, 20221 min readUnited States: Most Consumers Do Not Understand What ‘Carbon-Neutral’ MeansAccording to a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult, global company of Decision-Making Intelligence, nearly six in 10 consumers in...
Aug 14, 20221 min read$369 billion clean-energy plan. Here is a summary of the recently approved US Climate Bill.We summarize below 6 key parts of the bill approved on August 7, 2022. We also included individual links to the same topics posted in our...
Aug 12, 20221 min readGreencoding is the new frontier of software developmentThis was one of the lectures at the closing of the FebrabanTech 2022 Congress, yesterday, August 11, 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil. Have you...
Aug 10, 20221 min readEach Country's Share of CO2 Emissions. Since 1750. (by Union of Concerned Scientists).As the "Union of Concerned Scientists" indicate: "we share information, seek the truth, and let our findings guide our conclusions. It’s...