How to Spot Good Carbon Credits
Aug. 09 2022
Businesses Want to Prove They’re Helping, But Journalists Beware Greenwashing
The business of carbon reduction requires savvy coverage of “good” versus “junk" carbon credits. And “green” projects can harm biodiversity.
Wood Pellet Industry Expanding
Jan. 03 2022
“Perverse” Carbon Accounting Loopholes Fuel Global Growth
North Carolina activists decry local and global harms of cutting trees to make wood pellets for export.
Heirs’ Property Legal Morass
Nov. 12 2021
Black families still vulnerable to exploitation by timber companies, developers.
Lack of clear title to African American lands affects logging, affordable housing and ability of families to accumulate wealth.
Forestry Science and Sustainability: The Enviva View
Nov. 09 2021
Bioenergy is a Crucial Climate Solution, Wood Pellet Maker Says
Bioenergy can help meet global demand for energy, and biomass is organic and renewable. Does this add up to long-term sustainability?
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Nov. 09 2021
Landowners and Conservationists Clash Over Wood-Pellet Industry
As Southern forests in the U.S. are harvested for fuel, an ecologist explains what is lost, and a landowner describes how he keeps forests healthy.
The Long Road to the Glasgow Climate Summit
Nov. 09 2021
Efforts to Regulate Carbon Defeated by Parochial Interests
As protestors declare the COP26 climate summit a failure, a look back at more than three decades of inertia.
Are Wood Pellets Worse Than Coal?
Nov. 02 2021
How a Carbon Accounting ‘Error’ Helped Fuel the Wood-Pellet Industry
As world leaders at COP26 pledge to halt deforestation, the U.S. wood-pellet industry is expanding. Experts say it releases more carbon than fossil fuels.
How Forests Provide a Carbon ‘Sink’
Nov. 01 2021
But the U.S. sink is shrinking.
As the wood-products industry cuts down trees to burn as fuel, the nation begins to lose a major repository of stored carbon.
Covering COP
Oct. 29 2021
Climate Negotiators Head for Glasgow Fearing Failure to Stop Earth from Overheating
Reporters should avoid the minutiae and focus on the threat posed by carbon emissions that are still rising, climate journalists advise.
COP26 Lookahead: ‘CBAMs’ and Climate Policy
Oct. 29 2021
Can Border Taxes End Carbon Leakage and Help Reduce Greenhouse Emissions?
The European Commission is working to implement climate measures to prevent carbon leakage. Here’s how to cover it and what to expect in negotiations.
Covering Clean Energy and Politics
Nov. 07 2019
How Will 2020 Play Out on Climate Issues?
Energy issues abound, from the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accords to home weatherization.
CPI Wins 2016 Stokes Award
April 14 2017
Winning Project Focuses on Worst Polluters
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