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As carbon offsets, cookstove emission credits are greatly overestimated
The fastest growing type of offset on the global carbon market subsidizes the distribution of efficient cookstoves in developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but a new study finds that the stoves’ carbon saving credits are vastly overestimated, by a factor of 10. The overestimation undermines efforts to counteract carbon emissions to slow climate […]
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Hany Farid: To limit disinformation, we must regulate internet platforms
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