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admin /23 July, 2007
ABC Online
Australia’s first carbon trading market is being launched in Melbourne today.
The Australian Climate Exchange (ACX) aims to make cleaner technologies more competitive and will also monitor government-approved reductions in greenhouse emissions, which will be traded between businesses.
ACX Limited managing director Tim Hanlin says businesses are not prepared to wait until Prime Minister John Howard introduces his proposed scheme.
"He’s proposing a carbon trading scheme in 2012 and [the] Australian Climate Exchange is actually doing one now, so that’s where it fits in," he said.
"This is a voluntary emissions trading market and it’s business-to-business trading of greenhouse gas emissions."
Mr Hanlin says there are plenty of businesses keen to take part.
admin /22 July, 2007
Marc Peckham’s shipping container and 1975 horse float are the working parts of one of Australia’s only completely solar and windpowered recording studios, reported The Age (6/7/2007).
Solar power fuels Combat Wombat rapper: To say that the 34-year-old former geologist – better known as Monkey Marc of Melburnian activist hip-hop crew Combat Wombat – is proud of his latest do-it-yourself creation was something of an understatement. "It just works, you know," he announced proudly. "I’ve just had three or four weeks where I was just writing heaps of music in here, all on solar, all working fine. It pumps along.”
admin /21 July, 2007
Climate call: 271 economists say major economic damage could be done to Australia. (Getty Images) Seventy-five professors of economics have called on the Federal Government to stop undermining international efforts to tackle climate change and ratify the Kyoto Protocol without delay. They are among 271 Australian university economists who have signed a statement drawing attention Continue Reading →
admin /15 July, 2007
Scientists believed depleted fish stocks have removed competition for jellyfish, allowing them to breed to plague proportions, reported The Courier Mail (18/6/2007, p.13). Plagues of stingers: Jellyfish blooms, where the creatures multiply rapidly into untold millions: • clog water intakes on ships and power stations; • ruin fishing nets; and • can wreck engines. Dr Continue Reading →
admin /15 July, 2007
July 14 / 15, 2007 Language as an Instrument of Crime By RANNIE AMIRI It is indeed a great irony that George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, the same year Israel was created. For this nation, above all others, has proven itself most adept in the use and promulgation of doublespeak. Defined by Webster’s Dictionary Continue Reading →
admin /9 July, 2007
WASHINGTON, July 6 — A powerful House Democrat said on Friday that he planned to propose a steep new “carbon tax” that would raise the cost of burning oil, gas and coal, in a move that could shake up the political debate on global warming.
The proposal came from Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and it runs directly counter to the view of most Democrats that any tax on energy would be a politically disastrous approach to slowing global warming.
But Mr. Dingell, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on C-Span, suggested that his goal was to show that Americans are not willing to face the real cost of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. His message appeared to be that Democratic leaders were setting unrealistic legislative goals.
