#verra

Character designs for a comic I'm working on!! These aren't final final designs (ex. penny deserves cool rips in her jeans and i think Nick needs... More), but enough to get the vibes out there <3

I would love any feedback/crit on these designs!! Theyre intended for a fantasy web comic (maybe graphic novel), where two siblings who's parents are going through a divorce get stuck in a magical world and need to figure out how to get home. They meet a new friend along the way, Verra, a taboo hybrid called a Felkin, with an agenda of her own!

Our analysis of nearly 100 million carbon credits found that only a fraction of them resulted in real emissions reductions. It raises questions for the organisations that many of the world’s biggest companies, and the consumers who buy their products, rely on to set the standard for effective carbon offsetting—in particular the biggest of them, Verra.

“The implications of this analysis are huge,” said Barbara Haya, head of the Carbon Trading Project at the University of California, Berkeley. “Companies are making false claims and then they’re convincing customers that they can fly guilt-free or buy carbon-neutral products when they aren’t in any way carbon-neutral.”

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SourceMaterial and its partners reviewed data shared by scientists who carried out two major studies on Verra forest projects, together accounting for 95 million carbon credits—theoretically enough to balance the annual emissions from 25 coal-fired power plants or burning 220 million barrels of oil.

Our analysis suggests that only 5.5 million of those credits, or 6 per cent of the total, were real emission reductions. Of the 29 projects, only eight reduced any emissions at all.

Both studies, carried out by the same international group of scientists, estimated the real amount of deforestation prevented by the projects to calculate how many credits they should have received.

SourceMaterial then used Verra’s database to compare this with the number of credits each project actually received in the same timeframe. The disparity is stark: 94 per cent of those credits are likely to be worthless, the calculations showed.

Istg this fandom is always bitching about how "the MCU treats female characters like shit" But turn around and bash female characters the second they get in the way of their mlm ship.

(Read it pls if you can-)

Tell me you've never read the Outlander books series without telling me you've never read the Outlander books series. ☝️🙄🤦‍♀️

Jamie Fraser and all the Scots in Outlander use "verra" instead of very, among other "Scottish" words of the time period. Outlander fans continue to use them for fun, as part of fandom vernacular. Now you ken, lass. Google is your friend. JS.

August 25, 2021:

Sanguine Tertiary, Gaoler, Underbelly.