Nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.
Reports on deep decarbonization pathways for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Report projects being able to simultaneously phase-out the gas plants, achieve Ontario’s 2030 climate target, move the province towards a 100% renewable electricity grid and lower electricity bills.
Recommended more plant-based and less animal-based nutrition, particularly processed red meat.
Brazil’s Dietary Guidelines encourage the use of minimally processed plant-based foods over animal products to reduce GHGs and deforestation.
Provides estimates of the emission reduction potential from various sectors, including agriculture, industry and fossil fuel combustion, biomass burning, and wastewater and aquaculture.
Allows offset credits for reductions of nitrous oxide and other GHGs from agricultural sources, and has developed an offset protocol for estimating nitrous oxide reduction.
The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme imposes nitrous oxide limits on the production of nitric, adipic, glyoxal, and glyoxylic acids.
Requires agricultural sources to report emissions, although it has not yet established any cap on emissions from these sources.
Legally mandates the phaseout of the production and use of controlled ozone-depleting substances, setting phaseout obligations on a strictly enforced schedule. Includes HFCs since 2016.