Wood harvesting and forest management are depleting carbon storage. Old-growth forests in Sweden store ~72% more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference.
The top meter of soils in lowland primary forests contained roughly 64% of total C on average.
Didac Pascual et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adz8554
#carbon #carbonSinks #deforestation #timber #emissions #landUse #landUseChange #forests #forestry #offsets
Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵
#assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits #carbon
"The cause of climate change is the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels. But instead of focusing on the fundamental root cause, we’ve been focused on the interim product, emissions.
"But what I show in the book is that managing tons is an extremely narrow and technical understanding of the problem of climate change."
Jessica Green: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-big-flaw-in-climate-policy-were-trying-to-solve-the-wrong-problem/
#assets #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy #windfallProfits
When there is so much going wrong in the world, it can be free to do something right. Here’s a review of one of my favorite #offsets, paid by #TheCoin's yield capture.
One of my earliest memories is of my Dad marking exams by lantern light (pictured). So when we found an offset subsidizing solar lighting in Kenya & Uganda, it was an easy one to support. (1/2)
Hello #Fediverse! 👋
I’m a software developer based in Lundar, Manitoba 🇨🇦, building #TheCoin, a climate-fintech project that flips the math on #ClimateAction.
Politics and corporate goodwill struggle to address the climate crisis, personal action is hard to scale. That's why I built TheCoin, a system to reward individuals and fund climate projects through verified #offsets.
Looking forward to meeting the #ClimateTech, #Fintech, and #BuildInPublic communities here! 🌍
#CarbonCredits and Offsets - What Are They And How Do They Work? (by @climatenewsnow )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_xZG6UnvR0
> #Carbon_Credits and #offsets are a voluntary market that allows a company to emit #Co2 in exchange for doing something "green" like planting a tree or building ...
Exchange rates for different forms of environmental destruction:
From ‘net zero’ to ‘net gain’. The platypus-to-possum exchange rate
"Net gain’ allows/requires the use of offsets that are not like-for-like: I can destroy some platypus habitat if someone else protects some possum habitat."
"A bureaucrat is literally going to have to develop the platypus-to-possum exchange rate. I am not kidding; a bureaucrat is going to have to develop exchange rates for different forms of environmental destruction."
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https://michaelwest.com.au/from-net-zero-to-net-gain-the-platypus-to-possum-exchange-rate/
#Environment #biodiversity #BeanCounterEcology #offsets #EPBCAct #governance #destruction
The endangered Southern Pink Underwing Moth, Mural, Bellingen
Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW.
Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn
"Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default. An auditor general report found the government had no strategy for ensuring the offset market delivered the required environmental outcomes."
"In plain terms, development was occurring that harmed nature, money was accumulating in the fund because there were not enough offsets to compensate for that harm and species were being pushed closer to extinction."
“Turning offsets into an easy payment option flips the whole logic of environmental protection on its head."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/biodiversity-offset-scheme-nsw-australia-failing-nature-protection
#biodiversity #uniqueness #conservation #offsets #markets #GreenCapitalism #RestorationContributions #ecosystem #destruction #harm #NSW #governance #regulation #BeanCounterEcology #failure #BAU #EPBCAct #extinction
Eric Maugendre about carbon
Eric Maugendre about emissions
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