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2. Tree credits - Wikipedia

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   Tree credits is concept of community-based agroforestry whereby a tree planter or caretaker's climate services are rewarded. The system has been developed in response to the need for a simple way to get carbon credits to the individual planter with a minimum of overheads, and to simplify implementation and monitoring of such projects by using for-profit methods, much like microfinance.

3. Climate change in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   In the state of Tennessee, one of the key effects of global warming seems to be the radical changes to the geological composition as well as wildlife health of the Ohio-Tennessee Basin. [1] Downtown Nashville flooded, 2010. In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that "Tennessee's climate is changing. Although ...

4. List of U.S. states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions

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   This is a list of U.S. states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions for energy use, [1] [2] as well as per capita [3] [4] and by area. [5] The state with the highest total carbon dioxide emissions is Texas and the lowest is Vermont. The state with the highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions is Wyoming and the lowest is New York.

5. Forest cover by state and territory in the United States

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   Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, c. 2000 [1]. In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. [2]

6. Carbon offsets and credits - Wikipedia

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   Forestry carbon credits are based on the measurement of forest growth, which is converted into carbon emission reduction measurements by government ecological and forestry offices. [115] Owners of forests (who are typically rural families or rural villages ) receive carbon tickets (碳票; tan piao ) which are tradeable securities.

7. Carbon credits are literally going up in smoke as wildfires ...

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   Under California’s cap-and-trade program, the state issues carbon credits—the equivalent of one ton of CO2—to owners of so-called offset projects, which are made up of forest land set aside ...