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What happens when the forest behind a carbon offset project burns down? Most carbon crediting programs have an insurance program; few use real numbers, so most aren't prepared for actual forest risks. The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism might change that with a proposed empirical approach.
A quick and time-sensitive question for the internet hive mind: What's the best reference for the embodied emissions in solar photovoltaics manufacturing (e.g., gCO2e/kWh)? (I'm looking for numbers, not a debate. I know the emissions are small relative to the value of displacing fossil fuels.)
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...
If you live in California and haven't decided how to vote, please indulge me as I share why I voted for Tom Steyer. I'll share some more pragmatic thoughts below, but to be honest the the thing I keep coming back to is that he was endorsed by the best candidate in the race, Betty Yee.
I love you Dave, but don’t make excuses for liars and cowards. CARB could have kept the prices low without giving away all the money. The refiners will be make the same demands again tomorrow, safe in the knowledge that the more goes unsaid the more they can ask for.
David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.teamI suspect the real rationale here is "we are very scared of having any refiner go out of business, and therefore we will do literally anything to avoid that outcome, and we are sorry, but they have got us by the balls here," and that regulators simply cannot say that from the dais.
I think at this point you have to treat statements from CARB staff like you do statements from US DOJ prosecutors. They will say anything. They might even believe it.
Todd Woody@toddwoody.bsky.socialBreaking: California becomes the latest blue state to retreat on climate goals amid affordability concerns as regulators Friday evening voted to revamp its landmark carbon market to ease costs to the oil industry with $4 billion in incentives. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I'll say this about Governor Newsom and CARB Chair Lauren Sanchez: At least Governor Hochul had to decency to say she wanted to roll back New York's climate laws in public. Here in California we do the same in private and call it climate leadership.
Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson.comCARB is proposing a massive handout to oil & gas industry via Cap-and-Invest 😡 And they are raiding transit and housing funding to do it 1. Transferring allocation from GGRF to Industry 2. Adding new category of MDI industry credits $1.1B yearly subsidy to Industry at loss of $900M to GGRF
