A Drone, A Tree, A Carbon Credit: How India's Farmers Are Turning Forests Into Futures

A conversation with social entrepreneur Krutika Ravishankar about connecting smallholder farmers with global carbon markets and using drones and satellites to count every tree.
The Next Web

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from trees planted on abandoned mines

Octopus Energy puts $500M into Living Carbon to plant native trees on degraded US land. Google, Meta, and McKinsey buy 131,240 tonnes of carbon removal.
Yahoo

Conservation pays: How a local company is turning Portage County trees into carbon credits

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emily Penn, senior environmental scientist for Davey Resource Group, measures the diameter of a tree on the property that Davey ...
The Washington Post

Timber companies claim carbon credits for trees they don’t cut down

IÑAPARI, Peru — At the entrance to its sprawling tract of virgin Amazon rainforest, the Peruvian timber company Maderacre turns ancient hardwood trees into flooring on an industrial scale. Beside the ...