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FarmCarbon Achieves Historic First Issuance of CCP-Labeled Carbon Credits
"By generating these premium credits, the initiative directly supports Kenyan farmers by enabling them to transform methane-emitting animal waste into clean, renewable biogas, while channeling global capital to improve agricultural livelihoods at scale."
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- Agriculture, Energy, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Parked Capital is a Missed Opportunity: Why Donor-Advised Funds Should be Funding Climate Businesses Now
If philanthropic capital is waiting for a rainy day to address climate change, it’s already pouring. But according to Adam Fraser at Terraset, instead of supporting solutions to this challenge, a significant source of funding is either lying dormant — or actively contributing to the problem. As he explains, Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) are sitting on over $327 billion in capital: money that was already gifted to a charitable entity and earmarked for the public good. That money is invested in the market, growing tax-free, and sometimes even financing high-emission sectors like the fossil fuel industry, while innovative startups struggle to fund carbon removal and other climate solutions. He explores the sort of impact this funding could make if it were mobilized, and argues that the time to deploy it is now.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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Biochar Industrial Group To Scale Biochar-As-A-Service With New $1.5 Million Funding
The funding will enable the company to grow its biochar-as-a-service model, through which it helps food processing factories convert waste into CO2 removal solutions.
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- Agriculture, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AI’s Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up, as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Global
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Report: Every US $1 Invested in Climate and Clean-Air Action Can Return US $15
Released on the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, Hidden assets: The economic and health case for climate and clean air action is the first comprehensive global economic assessment of integrated climate and clean-air action.
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- Environment
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- Global
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Analysis: Why AI Carbon Footprinting Tools are Prone to Misleading Results
"The automation of the normally tedious process of creating product carbon footprints (PCFs) is one of the more tantalizing sustainability applications of artificial intelligence. But users of these services should treat the results with caution, suggests a study from researchers at Watershed, a carbon accounting platform."
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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- Global
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World’s Biggest Citrus Waste-To-Energy Plant Is Being Built in Brazil: 2.1-Million-Square-Foot Facility to Turn Orange Juice Waste Into 1.77 Million Cubic Feet of Biogas Every Day
Brazil is building the world’s biggest citrus waste-to-energy plant, a 2.1-million-square-foot facility designed to transform orange juice wastewater into renewable energy. The project is expected to generate 1.77 million cubic feet of biogas every day, replacing fossil natural gas while reducing emissions and turning citrus waste into a valuable energy resource.
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- Agriculture, Energy, WASH
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- Latin America
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Geospatial Startup NeoGeo Raises $20 Million from Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital in India
"By optimising spatial planning, NeoGeo drives climate mitigation through measurable resource efficiency and carbon abatement, while simultaneously enabling climate-resilient development and adaptation through proactive hazard and vulnerability mapping."
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- Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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