Carbon Footprints

Garnaut’s review, launched today at The National Press Club in Canberra, is simply titled the “Garnaut Climate Change Review - Draft Report, although there was, according to Prof Garnaut, a suggestion to call it “No Pain, No Rain.”
It’s the conclusion of his investigation that some very real risks can be mitigated by some very short-term [...]

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Tony Blair’s ‘Breaking The Climate Deadlock’ speech is a great speech. He’s much more casual now he’s not in office and his candour shines in this talk. He argues that the science is settled, we understand full well that it is the rise of the west that has been the cause [...]

It’s interesting to read two papers side-by-side. Melbourne’s The Age today is reporting Aussies back carbon trading plan: poll, whereas over in Melbourne’s The Herald Sun they are reporting Australians in the dark on carbon trade plans by Government. Can they both be right? From the Herald:
According to a new poll, 17 [...]

I was saddened, but hardly surprised to read Nelson warns Coalition may not back Rudd on climate change in this morning’s The Age.
[Australian] opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has flagged a looming confrontation with the Rudd Government on climate change, saying there is “a high probability” that the Coalition will oppose the Government’s blueprint to tackle [...]

Here’s an alarmist piece of nonsense for you. Households may be worse off with carbon trading: report.
A report for the Climate Institute shows that five years into a carbon emissions trading scheme an average household could be $200 a year worse off.
What’s that $200 in 2013 worth in today’s money? About $150 or [...]

Economist Dr Regina Betz from the Australian School of Business is conducting mock carbon trading experiments to determine which markets will be the most efficient. Using students to represent trading companies she is finding some interesting results.
The results of this research will be used to demonstrate to policy-makers the most efficient way to design Australia’s [...]

Professor Ross Garnaut, the man in charge of determining just how the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme should work, gave the 2008 Arndt Memorial Lecture on World Environment Day at the Australian National University in Canberra. His speech, Measuring the Immeasurable - The Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation has been widely reported, [...]

On Wednesday I gave a talk at the 2008 Australian Carbon Trading Expo in Melbourne called “The Train is Leaving: Implications for Business of the new Carbon Constrained Economy,” which just so happens to be the title of the book I am currently writing. The slides above give you some idea of what I [...]

In 1999 the ABC TV in Australia broadcast an episode of Four Corners, a show whose theme music for is entrenched into the mind of most Australians my age I suspect. This particular episode, the last for the year, was not, as some would guess, about the Y2K bug, but concerned global warming. [...]

I’m in China right now getting ready for the start of Carbon Trade China 2008.
Asia & Pacific accounted for 80% of carbon trade volume in the CDM market. New projects in Asia increased dramatically.China accounted for 51% of the world’s CDM carbon emission credits. During the first three quarters 2007, the number of CDM projects [...]