Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund

Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by radicalbyte on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:19AM (#22074331)

..and forest fires, deforestation, land use, methane from rubbish dumps, methane from permafrost and a thousand other things.

Still adding a large carbon tax directly at the source gives us pretty much the best bang-for-the-buck. It would have to be combined with deforestation taxes too otherwise you'll see countries like Brazil go into overdrive to export "green fuel".

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Re:Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund by usrusr on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:44AM (#22074529)

Methane is a powerful short term GHG, but long term only the CO2 left by decayed methane is relevant. Forest fires etc are completely temporary, contemporary trees are not geologically sequestered.

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