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🚀 With @JASWorldwide, we are excited to bring a new level of integrity and clarity to end-to-end sustainable logistics. Our collaboration sets a new standard for how the logistics sector can contribute to a climate positive world.

ESG reporting: What's all about? 🌍 We researched the top questions and got answers from Lune CEO Erik Stadigh. ➡️bit.ly/3vHINDU

What’s the best way to participate in the #VCM? Which types of credits are considered the highest quality and carry the least reputational risk? Dive into the answers in @HarvardBiz: buff.ly/3To8xza

Looks like I may need to redraw this graph. A new peer-reviewed paper points to biochar being permanent carbon storage with just a small part decomposing. Previous meta-studies have estimated that around 20% of the carbon in biochar is lost after 100 years and half after 500 years. It is challenging to prove empirically since the decay you see in the first years may be just the volatile parts being lost, it does not necessarily say anything about the fate of the bulk of the char. The new paper uses a novel method to test the stability and proposes a new test to determine permanence, "Random reflectance" (Ro).  It finds that most biochar is actually "inertinite", stable for millions of years. The transformation of biomass to inertinite is one of the two main natural pathways exerted by Earth to permanently store organic carbon, mineralization being the other. The paradigm shift has started, but I would be curious to hear what other biochar researchers have to say.

NEW DATA & ANALYSIS - Who Can Pay for Carbon Removal? Today we publish an update of the Ambition gap paper I wrote with @CarbonGap last year, with new data. Companies with low emission have the greatest profits per tonne they emit and the largest capacity to pay the full cost of their emissions. When you earn 100,000 USD per tonne you emit, a 200 USD carbon fee is very affordable. If you can afford to pay the cost of your emissions you should. However, our analysis shows that ALL sectors could afford to remove the last 10% of their Scope 1-3 emissions with permanent carbon removal. AND, contributions from high emitters could generate the MOST money in absolute terms, even if they only pay very little per tonne they emit, or buy very few tonnes as a share of their emissions. Big emitters should also start supporting CDR and other external climate solutions, but they will be very far away from paying the full cost of their emissions, and thats ok since we need them to spend most their money internally on reductions. The post has interactive graphs to let you explore the profit per tonne and emissions of companies, see what different carbon prices would mean for different sectors as a share of their profits. We will make the whole dataset available shortly. See next tweet for link to the post.

🌱 Great to be a part of the partnership setting a new standard for sustainable #logistics! Congratulations to Neolink for integrating high quality carbon offsets that reduce their clients' climate impact into their #SupplyChainManagement platform🥳 neolink.au/neolink-launch…

Ahead of COP28, UN leaders have made it clear: we've got to get emissions plummeting now. In 2023, we've seen heat records smashed across the globe. We need record action in response. theguardian.com/environment/20…

CDP has drawn up three principles of best practice when using carbon credits.

How can global negotiations finally bridge the gap between #nature and #climate? On the eve of #COP28, @FaunaFloraInt's CEO Kristian Teleki weighs in. edie.net/the-global-sto…

☁ Ever wondered how Direct Air Capture (DAC) actually works? Can we really just suck #carbon out of the atmosphere? Find out, in our deep dive blog on all things #DirectAirCapture 👇 lune.co/blog/deep-dive…

NEWS: Half of world’s largest firms are committed to #netzero. No. of company targets is⬆️by 40+% in 16 months — from 702 in June '22 to 1,003 today. Despite progress on quantity, the quality of targets must urgently improve to align with Paris targets. tinyurl.com/4v2xj38s

Here’s a cheat sheet of what’s new in Europe amid a series of regulations and proposed rules that have been handed down by the European Union — affecting companies based or operating on that continent, including thousands of U.S. firms. buff.ly/4624KLV

“We need about 1.6 billion tons of CO2 removed by 2030 to hit a 1.5 target. That is not a lot of time.” - Julio Friedmann (@CarbonWrangler), Chief Scientist of @Carbon_Direct. #VERGE23 @greentechlady

We can't meet our goals without the conservation and restoration of nature, specifically healthy trees and forests. Trees are a cost-effective, natural technology that is available to us right now and can limit climate change. @wef bit.ly/46ESqAs

The number of companies publicly disclosing environmental data through the CDP platform has soared 24% in the last year, to over 23,000 listed companies. Here's why that matters. buff.ly/45DndNh

Buying carbon credits doesn’t discourage corporate decarbonisation, study finds #CarbonCredits #Offsetting #Greenwashing edie.net/buying-carbon-…

Climate change the ‘most common’ reason for portfolio exclusion on.ft.com/3FfqKq9

🌳 Ending illegal #deforestation is a priority of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after destruction in the rainforest surged under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Read more in @Reuters⤵️ reut.rs/3Q8bDFp

👀 How can we ensure #ClimateContributions have the real #PositiveImpact they claim to have? It’s a question we get a lot. Stay in the know with updates from Lune’s curated library of high quality #CarbonProjects. Here’s what happened in Q3 👇 lune.co/blog/Q3-update…