Forests, Fires, and Jurisdictional Offsets: A Conversation with Naomi Swickard of Verra
Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
English - May 01, 2020 03:58 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsScience Health & Fitness anthropocene climatechange globalwarming Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 057 | COVID-19 and the Value of Resilience over Efficiency
Global greenhouse-gas emissions will drop 5.5 percent this year because of COVID-19, but they must drop 7.6 percent every year to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5C target. Forest carbon offsets provide one way of getting there fast, but can we trust these offsets? Do they do what they say they do? This week, we hear how the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) handles carbon accounting at different scales. And my guest, Naomi Swickard, actually makes it interesting.