Tag: Climate Week NYC

Climate Week NYC – Businesses cut costs and emissions as global evidence builds for food waste action

Stuart Mitchell

As global leaders gather for Climate Week NYC, global environmental action NGO WRAP is highlighting the impact already being delivered by tackling food waste, and the opportunity to accelerate action globally.  Case studies from businesses and across WRAP’s Food Pact Network show what action can deliver for businesses, people and the planet. At Climate Week NYC, WRAP will join WRI, WWF, ReFED and The Global FoodBanking Network for Food Waste: The Climate Opportunity on Our Plate, exploring how greater collaboration can accelerate action on food waste. The five-star Fairmont Jakarta hotel in Indonesia, part…

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Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) Coalition Unveils Open-Source Data Model at Climate Week NYC to Facilitate and Scale Carbon Markets

Stuart Mitchell

Last month at Climate Week NYC a growing coalition of carbon market participants announced the release of Version 1.0 of the Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) structure to help facilitate and scale carbon markets by standardizing rules and definitions that describe carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies, and activity types. The new structure provides a collaborative, cross-industry schema for project location, project details, and project approach. This CDOP Version 1.0 structure, with its harmonized data schema, marks a critical breakthrough in addressing data fragmentation that has hindered the carbon market’s…

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