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[ShadowSwordmaster]

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.

“It was really exciting to see, in this moment where it’s hard to find any positive news on climate change, here’s this very small program that looks like it’s actually working so far,” said Christa Anderson, a PhD student in environment and resources at Stanford University and the new study’s lead author. Anderson conducted the study with Stanford colleagues Christopher Field and Katharine Mach.

More in the link.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/21/a-controversial-california-effort-to-fight-climate-change-just-got-some-good-news/?utm_term=.d624e26c6dfb

 

[IISANDERII]

Good news! More reason to permit California to become part of Canada

 

[darthsontin]

I hope it works as well in China since that could go a huge way to meeting the global goals.

 

[FUME5]

Companies getting 'carbon credits' for planting tress etc is nothing new though?

 

[davepoobond]

Companies getting 'carbon credits' for planting tress etc is nothing new though?

There's been a lot of pushback against even offering them from environmentalists in CA

 

[FUME5]

There's been a lot of pushback against even offering them from environmentalists in CA

I mean, on the one hand it's a bit bullshit, on the other, it's a whole lot better than nothing.