Carbon Footprints

In today’s Register: “Environmental refugees could hit 50m by 2010“.
The world could be facing a surge in the numbers of people made homeless by environmental degradation, with UN researchers estimating that by 2010, there will be 50m so-called environmental refugees in need of aid and support.
“There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing [...]

There’s an article in today’s Irish Examiner claiming “Ireland facing €600m bill for failing to meet Kyoto greenhouse gas limits“.
IRELAND could face a total bill of between €500 million and €600m for failing to meet its greenhouse gas limits under the Kyoto Protocol.
But the Government yesterday said it would only have to pay €280m [...]

From an article I read today on the Canadian Farmscape site Canadian Hog Industry Expected to Be Trading Carbon Credits in Early 2006
A pork industry working group, under the direction of the National Offsets Quantification Team (OQT), has developed a draft protocol to calculate the amount of greenhouse gas offsets generated from hog farms in [...]

There’s an article in the Gulf News about a report recently compiled by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia’s leading medical and environment groups that predicts average temperatures will rise by between 1 degree Celsius and 6 degrees by 2100. This could cause a significant increase in disease across Asia [...]

When I talk to people about Carbon Planet, for many their initial response is “Well hooray, at last someone is doing something about global warming.” This reaction always makes me cringe.
“It’s not what we are doing,” I respond, “it’s what we are enabling you to do.”
“Oh but I’m doing my bit already,” many people [...]

There’s an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald headlined “Sell me your carbon dioxide” outlining a British plan to impose personal CO2 emissions caps.