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Aldyen Donnelly
Co-Founder and Director of Carbon Economics, Nori
Aldyen Donnelly is a co-founder and director of carbon economics at Nori, a carbon removal marketplace launched in 2018. At Nori, she leads the development of methodologies to establish Carbon Removal Certificates and recruits early CRC buyers and suppliers into the marketplace. A small-business developer and consultant for over 40 years, Donnelly started to work on market-driven strategies to reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations in the mid-1990s. Her projects include using emission-reduction credits to finance carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, a stationary fuel-cell application, and carbon-capture and storage projects, among others. Donnelly also co-authored Canadian province Nova Scotia’s 2009 GHG Emissions Regulations, the first of its kind in North America.
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Last year the State of Washington, one of the most progressive in the country, voted against a carbon tax. Why? Do we face major resistance as climate policies land on ballots...