Carbon Footprints

The National Wildlife Federation is reporting U.S. House Passes Historic Climate Bill.
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed one of the most critical bills in conservation history.
This legislation–known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act–is an unprecedented plan to address the single greatest threat to our nation’s wildlife and natural resources.
In addition to putting [...]

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is kicking goal after goal. Their latest project, PowerShift, a national conference for youth concerned about climate change, promises to be a seminal event in the Australian Youth calendar. The event is being held at the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus from Saturday 11 July to Monday 13 [...]

I was lucky enough to get the chance to interview Ben Kalina, Associate Producer of the new documentary film A Sea Change. Carbon Planet has been working with Ben and his team to assess the GHG emissions associated with making the film. A Sea Change is the first major documentary to highlight the [...]

The Global Canopy Programme is covering the discussions in Bonn where the topic of avoiding deforestation is on the table. In a blog post called “Forests & the Future Climate Regime” they cite a speech by Johan Eliasch, the UK Prime Minister’s special representative on deforestation and clean energy, and Frances Seymour, Director-General of [...]

Map showing the Wilkins Ice Shelf
The hot news is that the collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf accelerated last weekend with some major new cracks. The whole shelf now hangs by a thread.
As the Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, ESA’s Envisat satellite is observing the area [...]

A couple of years ago Carbon Planet was approached by Ben Kaliner, an American film maker, who was just setting out to make a film on ocean acidification. I met Ben while in the USA for some friends’ wedding and we clicked well. Carbon Planet eagerly put its hand up to be involved [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pretty much the whole of Australia is on track to be completely carbon neutral if the Australian Federal Department of Climate Change gets their way. How will this amazing feat be achieved? By redefining the term ‘carbon neutral’.
Yesterday I attended a meeting of most of the key members of the Australian Carbon Offset [...]