Roadmap to 2030

 

Thirty years ago, it might have been possible to tackle our climate change challenge by focusing exclusively on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. But while such strategies are essential to achieve long-term stability, they are now no longer enough.  

That’s why, in addition to GHG reduction projects, the Registry considers projects that address the full set of factors identified by the IPCC as contributing to climate change, and also focuses on significant changes in this decade – before 2030 – as well as over longer timeframes.

In addition to GHG emissions, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) such as black carbon and tropospheric ozone, aerosol pollutants, and non-emissions factors, such as landscape level alterations leading to changes in surface albedo, are major contributing to changes in the climate, along with changes in cloud cover and water vapor.  

 

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The SCS Global Registry is a platform and clearinghouse for the evaluation, registration and financing of climate mitigation projects. Its focus is on projects that can contribute meaningfully to the reduction of excess planetary heat, measured as radiative forcing (RF), both in the near-term and longer-term. Our goal is to support efforts that can stabilize and ultimately restore Earth’s climate, while simultaneously providing additional human health and environmental co-benefits in concert with UN Sustainable Development Goals. SCS Global Registry is a non-profit organization, and an affiliate of Scientific Certification Systems, Inc. and its family of SCS organizations.

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