by Gary Chandler | May 2, 2019 | Carbon Capture
Trees Also Shelter Us From Climate Change What’s low-tech, sustainable and possibly the most effective thing that we can do to fight global warming and climate change? Planting trees and saving forests. Tom Crowther is a climate change ecologist at Swiss...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 2, 2019 | Carbon Capture
Soil Restoration Vital To Climate Change Mitigation A soil scientist at The Ohio State University, earned the 2019 Japan Prize, considered one of the most prestigious honors in science and technology. Rattan Lal is the first Ohio State scientist and the first soil...
by Gary Chandler | Jun 10, 2014 | Carbon Capture
Global Warming Modifying Forests There aren’t many upsides to climate change, but global warming is stretching the growing season for trees in temperate zones, which increases their capacity to uptake carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. That added growth...
by Gary Chandler | Mar 27, 2013 | Carbon Capture, Reforestation
Carbon Capture A Priority In China A project that has reforested 3,000 hectares of previously barren land in China’s southwest Guangxi is issuing its first carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism. The Facilitating Reforestation for Guangxi Watershed...
by Gary Chandler | Jan 12, 2013 | Carbon Capture, Reforestation
Global Reforestation Initiative In September 2011 commitments were made to the GPFLR by governments, business leaders and environmental experts to work towards the restoration of 150 million hectares of lost landscapes by 2020. This ambitious but attainable target...
by Gary Chandler | Aug 9, 2011 | Carbon Capture
Nature-Based Solutions vs. Technology Carbon finance is supporting the management of forests spanning 26.5 million hectares worldwide after businesses in 2012 invested a near-record $216 million into projects that plant trees, avoid deforestation, improve forest...
