Carbon Footprints

Rural portal (free registration required) Farm Online is running a story Farmers missing $2.5 billion in lost greenhouse credits.
Farmers are being penalised to the tune of $2.5 billion over five years as result of the Federal Government’s policy not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol or introduce a national emissions trading scheme.
New analysis by The Climate […]

The UK’s Financial Times, along with pretty much every other newspaper of note in the world, is reporting on the Stern Report, saying Britain calls for rapid action on climate change.
The report by Sir Nicholas Stern, former World Bank chief economist and a senior UK civil servant, said establishing a carbon price, through tax, trading […]

The UK’s Independent has a story Britain to admit Kyoto refuseniks into carbon trading market.
Confidence in the emerging market for carbon emission permits was given a double boost yesterday as the bank Morgan Stanley unveiled a [US]$3bn (£1.6bn) investment and the UK said it would enable companies from non-Kyoto signatory countries to trade through Britain.
Morgan […]

In today’s International Herald Tribune is reporting British government says scientific debate on global warming ‘now closed,’ action needed.
Environment Secretary David Miliband said international action was needed to curb the emission of greenhouse gases that scientists say are warming the planet.
“I think that the scientific debate has now closed on global warming, and the popular […]

In today’s Australian they are saying Captains of commerce turn heat on global warming.
BUSINESS and government should take unilateral action to arrest climate change instead of waiting for a consensus to emerge on the issue, ANZ Bank chief executive John McFarlane said.
Adding to a growing chorus of business voices urging action on global warming, Mr […]

The Guardian has a story on the beleagured gulf-stream, Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold.
Scientists have uncovered more evidence for a dramatic weakening in the vast ocean current that gives Britain its relatively balmy climate by dragging warm water northwards from the tropics. The slowdown, which climate modellers have predicted […]

I’m in the UK where The Independent is saying Climate change: US economist’s grim warning to Blair’s Cabinet.
Global warming could cost the world’s economies up to 20 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes.
That stark warning was given to Tony Blair […]

This is just a quick reminder that The Global Climate Campaign is holding a series of worldwide demonstrations on climate change, Saturday November 4th, to coincide with the UN Climate Talks in Nairobi, Kenya from 6th to 17th November 2006. See their website for posters you can download and details of the protests in […]

Mr Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper is running a story PM turns up heat on solar power.
A PROPOSED $400 million solar plant that could deliver 154 megawatts of power will be the cornerstone of the Howard Government’s fight against climate change.
In a political shift that steals an approach trumpeted by federal Labor, the federal and Victorian […]

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald is running a story Carbon trading suggested saviour as forests vanish.
FELLING tropical forests often makes people poorer, hurts endangered species and emits greenhouse gases, so perhaps rich countries could pay to keep trees standing, the World Bank has said.
The global carbon markets, set up in response to the Kyoto Protocol and […]