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  1. the controversial proposal of geoengineering, in this case the use of iron-based fertilization of our ocean, has recently re-surfaced with a new call for limited tests at identified sites around the world. > journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

    paragraph 3 of its introduction, summarizes the actual intent of this proposal.

  2. 🕵️🤝 #CorporateCapture at its highest: During their intervention in the #CarbonMarket negotiations - Indonesia copied #FossilFuels lobbyists’ talking points, sometimes verbatim & presented them as its own. A 🧵 on a very deserved #FossilOfTheDay. READ: climatenetwork.org/resource/fos...

  3. "The breakup of the partnership behind one of the world’s biggest #carbon projects in Zimbabwe raises new doubts about the #CarbonMarket’s ability to backstop failures.

    Most of the #Kariba project’s proceeds have gone to the two partners rather than people in the rural communities who fight #deforestation, as the companies have claimed."

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

  4. The European Union wants to become the world’s first climate neutral continent by 2050. And to achieve this goal, it aims to emit 55% less CO2 by 2030 compared to 1990.

    At the core of the plan is a carbon market known as the Emissions Trading System (ETS). It caps how much companies can emit and allows them to trade these emission rights.

    Now the EU Parliament has struck a deal to reform this system.

    dw.com/en/eu-reforms-emissions

    #EU #ClimateNeutral #CarbonMarket #ETS #Emissions