How Can We Ensure Transparency and Accountability in Carbon Offsetting Schemes?

Feb 8, 2017 ... A new study, published in Nature, finds that recent changes in circulation patterns in the world's oceans are playing a key role in how much CO2 they take up. Carbon is stored on Earth in a number of major reservoirs or 'sinks' including living plants, fossil fuels, the atmosphere, dissolved in water, and other ... Dec 12, 2023 ... Here we outline an alternative CDR approach, one inspired by a natural carbon-sequestering process at the seafloor, that in theory could remove substantial ... “Marine carbon dioxide removal presents exciting new challenges for scientists who have been working for decades to measure the ocean carbon sink that naturally ... Mar 4, 2020 ... Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. Nature. 2020 Mar;579(7797):80-87. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0 Jan 26, 2018 ... Techniques include composting, planting cover crops, reducing tillage, leaving crop residues on the land, and managing grazing. The Marin Carbon ... Sep 8, 2020 ... This trade-off is directly linked to faster growth reducing tree lifespan, and not due to covariance with climate or environment. Apr 22, 2019 ... The research reveals that volcanic forearc are a previously unrecognized deep sink for carbon dioxide. The lead author is Peter Barry from the ... an area of forest that is large enough to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the earth's atmosphere and therefore to reduce the effect of global ... Oct 20, 2022 ... A forest becomes a carbon sink if it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Photosynthesis deposits it in the forest biomass ...