In 2021 I wrote a blogpost about the carbon banking plans of Microsoft and Rabobank. The aim of their project was to plant trees on a area spanning 15 million hectares and thus compensate CO2 of 150 Mton in 2025.
I failed to reproduce these numbers: with the En-ROADS …
continue readingIn a previous blogpost I conducted a thought experiment. We imagined what would happen if the whole world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …
continue readingIn a previous blogpost I conducted a thought experiment. We imagined what would happen if the whole world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …
continue readingYesterday Rabobank announced a carbon banking plan in collaboration with Microsoft. The figure below summarizes their ambitions: they aim to plant trees on a land area of 15 million ha in order to compensate for 150 Mton of CO2 emissions in 2025.
Plan by Rabobank and Microsoft
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This blogpost is a thought experiment. Imagine the entire world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …
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