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Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrogen and ammonia with renewable energy would be sited just 5 kilometers from … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon credits, carbon trading, Cerro Armazones, Cerro Paranal, Chile, climate change, European Southern Observatory, Extremely Large Telescope, green hydrogen, renewable energy, Science journal, SpaceX Starlink, Thirty Metre Telescope, Very Large Telescope
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The billionaire’s solution to climate change
An eye-opening profile of Marc Benioff’s 1t.org initiative, the flawed research paper that inspired it, the harmful practices it’s made room for, and what all this says of his wealth Continue reading
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Tagged 1t.org, afforestation, afforestration, Bloomberg, carbon credits, carbon sequestration, carbon trading, climate action, climate mitigation, Jane Goodall, Marc Benioff, Thomas Crowther
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What passes for money
How many things will pass for money? Investment and disinvestment are both aimed at regulating growth from one sector to another, but at higher benefit-to-cost ratios, such moves will fail. Two important cases in point: cap-and-trade in reducing GHG emissions … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon trading, investment, regulation
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