Exelon and The Field Museum Partner to Protect South American Forest, Measure Prevented Carbon ...

Exelon Corporation has partnered with Chicago´s Field Museum of Natural History to protect tropical forests in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador and improve the measurement of prevented carbon emissions, or offsets. The effort is funded by a $1.5 million donation from Exelon, one of the nation´s largest utilities, to The Field Museum´s Environment, Culture and Conservation (ECCo) division, which translates museum science into enduring conservation results. Deforestation, primarily in the tropics, causes approximately 20 percent of manmade global greenhouse gas emissions. Trees extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and their removal releases carbon stored in vegetation and soil. By protecting forests, Exelon expects to prevent carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming. The partnership is part of Exelon... [read full story]