Langley City will set aside some money to compensate for its greenhouse gas emissions but will wait to decide how to spend that money until it can determine whether the provincial government is blowing hot air. The City is one of the communities that signed onto the provincial government’s Climate Action Charter, a carbon neutral [...]

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has launched a pilot project for the “Carbon Offset Products Making Use of Carbon Footprint” program, jointly with the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). Under the program, the calculated [...]

Mr. Hrubes’s task, a far cry from forestry of the past, was to calculate how much carbon could be stored within the tanoak, madrone and redwood trees in that plot. Every year or so, other foresters will return to make sure the trees are still standing and doing their job. Such audits will be crucial [...]

LEGGETT, Calif. — Braced against a steep slope, Robert Hrubes cinched his measuring tape around the trunk of one tree after another, barking out diameters like an auctioneer announcing bids. “Twelve point two!” “Fourteen point one!” Hrubes’ task, a far cry from forestry of the past, was to calculate how much carbon could be stored [...]