CarbonPlan is a nonprofit that analyzes climate data, carbon offsets and carbon removal projects, and publishes open research tools.
Commenters praise it for transparency, citing its carbon dioxide removal database and its analysis of forest offsets for Stripe and Microsoft.
Carbon offsets are sadly hopeless. Let's plant more trees, look the carbon is now tied in nice biomass. Few short decades later: Oops, an entirely predictable fire just released all that carbon back into the atmosphere.
That assuming the tree planting is done correctly, and does not lead to unhealthy fire prone over density, in the chase for an extra buck. Like every financialized enterprise in the history of the world. No, the tree planting people are good people and would never do something like that.
At best these programs are forest preservation programs. That is they attempt to keep the carbon in the forest instead of blowing the forest up for short term economic gain. That is good, we need more of it. But it is disingenous to call them 'carbon capture' and the end result 'carbon negative'.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/wildfires-rage-carbon-credits-500830
https://carbonplan.org/research/forest-offsets
For fun, check the effect of the Oregon 2020 Lionhead fire on one of these projects. The fire absolutely dwarfed the carbon offset project, and killed half the trees therein.
https://carbonplan.org/research/offset-project-fire
Not OP, but in my experience:
Jupiter Intelligence (https://jupiterintel.com/)
Descartes Labs (https://descarteslabs.com/)
Microsoft Planetary Computer
(https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/)
Coiled (managed Dask - python HPC) (https://www.coiled.io/)
CarbonPlan (https://carbonplan.org/)
Salo Sciences (acquired by Planet, satellite imagery company) (https://salo.ai/)
lots of others
I guess projects like Our World in Data and Carbonplan track negative externalities. I mean, other organizations track them, but they make them visible and readily understandable. And I agree, their impact is extremely outsized. For example, there only work a dozen+ people at Our World in Data, but what they do has an outsized impact.
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://carbonplan.org/
CarbonPlan is doing a great job bringing transparency here by analyzing and publishing proposals to the major carbon removal programs to date (Stripe and Microsoft): https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-database
Adding this one, we are spending a lot of time getting all the calculations on sequestrations right, here is some deeper information on this. https://carbonplan.org/research/ton-year-explainer
Sure! I usually point people at Carbonplan's CDR database: https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-database