Thursday 24 August 2017

A CONTROVERSIAL CALIFORNIA EFFORT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE JUST GOT SOME GOOD NEWS

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A controversial California climate program got a shot of good news this month when a study suggested it is successfully reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and providing other environmental benefits on the side.
The study, conducted by a trio of Stanford University researchers, concerns a California “carbon offset” program, which allows companies to pay to preserve carbon-storing forests instead of
reducing their own emissions. According to the researchers’ findings, that program is protecting imperiled forests and preventing the carbon they store from being released into the atmosphere.
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