Carbon Footprints

In Australia The Age they are reporting on Australia’s ‘moral climate change duty’.
Australia has a “moral” duty to tackle climate change and won’t delay action because of the world economic meltdown, the federal government says.
The doom and gloom pervading world markets may have taken the heat out of global warming, but a defiant Climate Change [...]

In the UK the BBC News is reporting that Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’.
The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.
It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion.
The figure comes from adding the [...]

In Australia, Rooted, the official Crikey blog is asking Why do we let them stay? of businesses that that are threatening to up-stumps and quit the country in the face of serious emissions reduction targets.
Australian businesses have known about climate change for nearly twenty years. If they still haven’t put in place a plan to [...]

In the UK The Guardian is reporting on the need for Staying green in the gloom
Ed Miliband, the [UK's] secretary of state for energy and climate change, may only just have found a desk in his newborn department, but he already has a crucial document to read at it. Yesterday’s interim advice from the committee [...]

Tech website Ars Technica has a story on Clean Energy 2030: Google’s plan to save the planet
The Google plan is nothing if not ambitious. To begin with, Google proposes a massive push toward energy efficiency, which will reduce electricity demand to 2008 levels (accounting for around 1,000 terawatt hours/year. It also calls for a complete [...]