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blog / carbonplan
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blog / carbonplan is the company blog at carbonplan.org, writing about science and data. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “CDR: Public Carbon Dioxide Removal project proposals filtered for Microsoft”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CarbonPlan's research on carbon removal, including its database of carbon removal proposals from programs such as Stripe and Microsoft, and an explainer on ton-year sequestration calculations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions with open data and tools.
Most-linked posts?
- CDR: Public Carbon Dioxide Removal project proposals filtered for Microsoft3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- Systematic Over-Crediting of Forest Offsets3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-30
- Carbon offset forests are burning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-18
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-29
What Hacker News says?
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
Comment linking /research/cdr-database
on “Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule”Submitted Building open source downscaling pipelines for the cloud – CarbonPlan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAdding 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
Comment linking /research/ton-year-explainer
on “Launch HN: Carbon Crusher (YC W22) – Carbon Negative Roads”Submitted A Database of Carbon Offset Projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI 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/
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on “Ask HN: Software with biggest potential for positive impact in 5 years?”Submitted Zombies on the Blockchain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSure! I usually point people at Carbonplan's CDR database: https://carbonplan.org/research/cdr-database
Comment linking /research/cdr-database
on “Wildfires are destroying California's forest carbon credit reserves, study says”Submitted Systematic Over-Crediting of Forest Offsets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCarbon 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 wo…
Comment linking /research/offset-project-fire
on “DuckDuckGo Is Now Carbon Negative”Submitted Systematic Over-Crediting of Forest Offsets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot 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
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on “Request for Startups: Climate Tech”Submitted Open Climate Risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Climate Trace: Tracking Greenhouse Gas Emissions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CarbonPlan: Data and Science for Climate Action as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carbon offset forests are burning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Systematic Over-Crediting of Forest Offsets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CDR: Public Carbon Dioxide Removal project proposals filtered for Microsoft as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carbon Offsets Burning as a story · 1 points
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