90| George Thumbi: Man of a Million Trees (5th Installment, "Carbon in Kenya")

FromBionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature

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90| George Thumbi: Man of a Million Trees (5th Installment, "Carbon in Kenya")

FromBionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature

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Dec 8, 2023

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Dec 8, 2023

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Titles in the series (94)

We've entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene, and nothing is as it was. Not the trees, not the seas – not the forests, farms, or fields – and not the global economy that depends on all of these. What does this mean for your investments, your family's future, and the future of man? Each week, we dive into these issues to help you Navigate the New Reality.

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011 New Age of Radical Transparency: New Tools for Tracking Deforestation by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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Bertrand Piccard Wants You (And Your Climate Solutions): Renowned Aviator Launches World Alliance for Efficient Solutions by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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019: Can Europe Tap The Private Sector To Protect Its Environment?: Interview With Genevieve Bennett of Ecosystem Marketplace by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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012 Will Trump "Get Out of the Way" on Climate?: Climate negotiators are meeting in Bonn, Germany, the next two weeks to move the Paris Climate Agreement forward – even as Republicans in the United States seem intent on moving it backward. Most countries say they want the US to stay in the... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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006 Climate, Conflict, and Commodities: The Calculus of Peace on a Changing Planet: How Carbon Finance can Help (or Hinder) the Peace Process by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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009 Climate Change in the Trumpocalypse / Part 1: Initial Reactions: Initial reactions from Marrakesn to Trump Victory in US by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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013 How to Track Climate Laws of the World by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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028: 2017 Year In Review: Forests, Farms, and Fields in the Trump Era by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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027 | Understanding the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund and Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: How the World Bank guides investment dollars to sustainable farming in developing countries by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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020 Brazil and Indonesia: Connecting the Climate Dots: Climate Change and the Restoration Economy by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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061 | Seaweed, Cities, and Mangroves: The Blue Carbon Story: A Discussion with Steve Crooks by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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008 Can New Aviation Agreement Save Forests?: After 2020, Airlines Must Offset Their Greenhouse-Gas Emissions. Will Forests Benefit? by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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010 Climate Change in the Trumpocalypse / Part 2: The Role of US States, Regions, and Business: Who Will Fill The Leadership Gap if the Trump Administration Pulls Out of the Global Climate Talks? by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
38 min listen
022: Ten Keys To Deforestation-Free Commodities By 2020: How To Purge Deforestation From Soy, Cattle, Palm, and Pulp&Paper Supply Chains by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
51 min listen
014: One Billion Tons of Voluntary Carbon: What role do voluntary carbon markets play in the Paris Climate Agreement? by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
37 min listen
034 | Climate Shock Revisited: the Economics of Carbon Pricing: With William Nordhaus winning the Nobel Prize and the IPCC calling for a price on carbon, we revisit our interview with Gernot Wagner by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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029 | A Tale of Two Companies: The Paths of Light and Darkness by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
38 min listen
015: How Garlic Cloves and Orange Peels Cut Cow Burps and Slow Climate Change: Interview with Michael Mathres of Mootral by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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How Marks & Spencer Is Helping To Build A Global ‘Sustainability Tribe’: Interview with M&S Sustainability Director Mike Barry by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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026| Breakthrough in Bonn: Fixing World's Farms: How The Paris Agreement Sparked an Agricultural Revolution... of sorts by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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030 A Green Deal for the Netherlands: Will the Dutch Embrace Voluntary Carbon? by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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007 Of Milk and Money / Part One: the CEO and the Subsistence Farmer: How small Kenyan farmers are teaming up with multinational agribusinesses to confront climate change by reshaping the countryside. by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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047 | An Accountability Framework For Deforestation: Environmental NGOs have long pressured companies to reduce their impact on forests, and companies have long complained that every NGO seems to come with different demands. Now a coalition of more than a dozen NGOs have called the corporate bluff by... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
45 min listen
025: Trademarks, Gateways, And Global Climate Talks: Who Can Use the Term "REDD+"? by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
45 min listen
018 | Why Zoologist Andrew Mitchell Left the Forest to Save the Forest: Strangling the Finance Flows that are Killing Forests by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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023 Raw Audio From New York Climate Week: Ten Keys to Slashing Deforestation by 2020 by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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044 | Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright: Forget What You've Heard. With NGD, Everything is On the Table by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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38 | Natural Climate Solutions at Katowice Climate Talks: Summarizing The First Week: Natural and International Offsets by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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024 The Grand Experiment To Save Appalachia’s Forests by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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054 | Give Us Ecotopia or Give Us Death: Natural Climate Solutions Revisited by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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99 | Mombasa’s Big Ship: Reviving Urban Mangroves by Raising Communities: Support Bionic Planet at patreon.com/bionicplanet In Episode 99 of Bionic Planet, recorded in Mombasa, Kenya, the focus is on the efforts to revive the coastal mangrove forests that protect the seaside city and support its fishing sector. The episode... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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97 | The Mosaic, the Minefield, and a Manifesto: If you seeing these show notes, you're seeing the temporary version. The most relevant link that I mentioned in the show is this one: I'll drop more complete notes in on Monday, April 8, early afternoon Chicago time by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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94 | Meet Zimbabwe's Hemp Champion: Zorodzai Maroveke: Dr. Zorodzai Maroveke -- AKA "Dr. Zoey" -- heads the Zimbabwe Industrial Hemp Trust, which is promoting the uptake of industrial hemp as a climate smart alternative to wood, cotton, and plastic. Hemp, she explains, replenishes faster than wood, uses... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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93 | Zimbabwe's Green Cheetahs, with Chiyedza Heri of the Ubuntu Alliance: Zimbabwean entrepreneur Chiyedza Heri runs the Ubuntu Alliance, a company that's helping farmers leverage carbon finance to shift to more sustainable forms of agriculture. She's one of more than a dozen young Africans I met at year-end climate talks... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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92 | COP 28 Article 6: Expectations for Final Day: With just one full day of negotiations remaining, Pedro Venzon and Andrea Bonzanni of the International Emissions Trading Association summarize the remaining issues under Article 6 by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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91 | Article 6 Update from Dubai with Kelley Hamrick Malvar of The Nature Conservancy: Article 6 negotiations, which focus on international carbon markets, remain stalled in Dubai. Kelley Hamrick Malvar of The Nature Conservancy offers a look into the current state of play and the road ahead. by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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89 | How Agroforestry is Reshaping the Kenyan Countryside: This piece, adapted from a piece that first ran in 2016, serves as the fourth installment in our continuing series on carbon finance in Kenya. Today, we look at how carbon finance supports Sustainable Agriculture Land Management (SALM), which has... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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88 | Bees, Bursaries, and the Gospel of REDD+: In part three of our continuing series from Kenya, we hear how the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project helped people switch from burning trees for charcoal to conserving forests -- the their benefit and the benefit of us all. by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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087 | How REDD+ Revived a Major River, Slowed Climate Change, and Saved Lives: Evans Maneno is Makueni County Ecosystem Conservator for the Kenya Forestry Service. He walks us through a tree nursery in the Chyulu Hills and explains how the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project has reversed deforestation by helping people develop... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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86 | The Race to Save the Cloud Forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills, Part 1: A decade ago, the cloud forests of Kenya's Chyulu Hills were on the brink of collapse, threatening water supplies for the Tsavo and Amboseli Plains — and for the coastal City of Mombasa, 250 kilometers away. Then the Kenya Forestry and... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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083 | Big Bucks and Bad Faith Arguments: What to Make of COP27, with Jos Cozijnsen of Climate Neutral Group: Jos Cozijnsen has been working the climate puzzle for decades -- first by helping to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol and then by helping NGOs like the Environmental Defense Fund craft legal policies with teeth. Today, he offers his take on the year-end... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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78 | Helping Farmers Save Forests in Guatemala's Caribbean Coast: Marco Cerezo of Guatemalan NGO FUNDAECO explains how he's using carbon finance to help Guatemalan farmers demarcate their land and save surrounding forests. Related Links: https://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2021/10/marco-cerezo/ ... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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77 | Where Does Healthy Critique End and Cynical Denial Begin?: The science-denial movement delayed action on climate change for decades, and now the tropes they used are creeping into coverage of emerging climate solutions. Here’s one way of differentiating between honest inquiry and something more nefarious.... by Bionic Planet: Reversing Climate Change by Restoring Nature
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90| George Thumbi: Man of a Million Trees (5th Installment, "Carbon in Kenya")

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