Carbon Footprints

Reuters is running a story “Australia wants forest CO2 trade in Copenhagen pact” about a proposal Australia has submitted to U.N. climate negotiators that outlines a scheme to use carbon credits to protect rain forests.
“We think a post-2012 agreement will need to include forests in some way,” [Climate Change Minister] Wong told Reuters in an [...]

The BBC is reporting “Forests ‘facing a testing time’“, citing a new study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called “State of the World’s Forests 2009” and published on Monday, timed to coincide with the start of UN World Forest Week.
CTS Nair, one of the report’s lead authors and the FAO Forestry Department’s [...]

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald is running a story today “Polluters could shift greenhouse burden to poor countries, say critics“, that I really need to take to task.
AUSTRALIA’S biggest greenhouse polluters will be given carte blanche to shift the burden of cutting their emissions to poorer countries under the Federal Government’s proposed climate change laws.
Lawyers examining [...]

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In the UK the BBC News is reporting “Earth warming faster than thought“.
The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN are already being realised, say scientists at an international meeting in Copenhagen.
Indeed there is very little good news coming out of Copenhagen this week. But the main point that everyone, from McKinsey [...]

In the UK The Guardian is reporting “Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say“. The scientists go on in fact to say:
“The impacts of climate change on the Amazon are much worse than we thought. As temperatures rise quickly over the coming century the damage to the forest won’t be [...]

In the interview above, Connecting climate change and economic recovery, Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the famous Stern Review on the economic consequences of climate change, discusses the economic downturn and its effect on the climate change agenda.
The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the world can afford to [...]

The Australian Government released its controversial Carbon Pollution Reduction Schemedraft legislation today and I thought it best to explain as simply as possible how it works.
Download a PDF version of this diagram with more details.
The Government makes the political decision to reduce targets according to some trajectory. Not wishing to pick favourites the [...]