July 19, 2023

Citi has come out with a long, in-depth report on voluntary carbon markets (VCM). Having been in the market since working on the first VCM project in 1988, I’m always interested in such “primers.” But before you rely on the report in your decision-making, there are several things to be aware of.1By starting out with

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July 1, 2023

I just listened to Katherine Blunt’s fascinating 2022 book: California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What It Means for America’s Power Grid. It’s a great history and a good story, with some fundamentally important takeaways.1PG&E’s power grid is OLD (as are many others, no doubt). Some of the equipment, particularly in

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June 30, 2023

As I’ve been thinking about the recent filing of a $50 billion lawsuit based on the conclusions of attribution science that climate change was responsible for the 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, and that fossil fuel companies should foot the bill, I’m seeing how focusing on attribution will be a double-edged sword when

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June 26, 2023

One of our local counties here in Oregon recently filed a lawsuit against several fossil fuel companies in an attempt to hold them responsible for a deadly heat wave (a “heat dome” caused by a hot air mass under a large area of high pressure) that occurred in the Pacific Northwest in 2021. The suit

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June 21, 2023

What do we mean by “voluntary” vs. “compliance” carbon markets? I recently listened to Jo Paisley and Michael Azlen discuss carbon markets in a GARP podcast, and it crystalized something I’ve been cogitating on for a while.We hear all the time about voluntary markets vs. compliance markets, but how are we distinguishing between the two? One market is

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