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admin /3 December, 2009
Carbon trading is not enough to tackle climate change
Unambitious emissions caps provide no incentive for businesses to cut CO2 output
Your article explaining how the global carbon market could be worth $3tn a year, but “enthusiasm to place it at the heart of the Copenhagen treaty is matched by growing criticism of the concept”, elucidated the issues of the expanding yet unproven policy of emissions trading (Fear that $3tn market of future benefits few, 30 November).
Having worked advising British industry on international climate change policies, I would concur with many of the points made about the flaws of market-based mechanisms.
admin /2 December, 2009
With the change of Liberal leadership today, let me summarise the possible election scenarios.
A normal House and half-Senate election cannot be held before 7 August 2010.
The last legal date for an normal election is 16 April 2011, but the election is certain to be held before the end of October 2010.
Assuming a double dissolution trigger this week, writs for a double dissolution election can be issued up to 10 August 2010 for a last possible double dissolution date between 18 September and 16 October 2010.
A double dissolution before July 2010 would see the next election in early 2012.
A double dissolution election after 1 July would see the next election in 2013.
admin /2 December, 2009
RBS: where the public money has gone Ecologist 1st December, 2009 Treasury accused of writing a ‘blank cheque’ with taxpayers’ money for bank to make environmentally-damaging investments The full extent of unsustainable investments made by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were revealed this week in a report published by a coalition of organisations. Since Continue Reading →
admin /2 December, 2009
Why do climate deniers hold sway in Australia?
If Australia does not silence its sceptics and reduce its emissions there is a real risk of the nation becoming uninhabitable
Whatever happens in Copenhagen this month, Australia’s climate policy will still be in a mess.
Australia is the hottest and driest continent on Earth. Parts have been embroiled in record drought for the past decade, leaving reservoirs empty and agriculture decimated. Things got so bad last week that thousands of camels besieged a small town in the Northern Territory in search of water. Even the “ships of the desert” couldn’t cope.
Yet, while many Aussies embrace a love of the outdoors both in body and spirit, something in the frontier ethic of the “lucky country” still leads some to peer at the horizon and declare: “Mate, we don’t believe in climate change.” Maybe they have been out in the sun too long, for the country is living on the edge.
admin /2 December, 2009
Global emissions exceeding ‘carbon budget’, PwC study finds
World has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States, PricewaterhouseCoopers research finds
Guangan, China: A worker rides past coal-fuelled cooling towers at a power plant. The carbon ‘debt’ in 2008 was equivalent to the joint emissions of the US and China. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP
The world is rapidly depleting its “carbon budget” for the first half of this century and must slash the carbon intensity of the global economy, a new report said today.
Economists and climate change experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said their new research highlights the need for an ambitious carbon reduction agreement at the Copenhagen climate conference, which starts next week.
The report’s authors calculated the global carbon budget between 2000 and 2050 required to limit temperature rises to 2C, the climate threshold defined as “dangerous” by the EU.
admin /1 December, 2009
EU could easily make 40 per cent cuts by 2020 Ecologist 1st December, 2009 Phasing out fossil fuels, encouraging faster take-up of renewables and making radical improvements in energy efficiency would double Europe’s emission cuts, says study The EU could double its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without resorting to building new Continue Reading →
