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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - Z is for Zero Emission Network
The Zero Emission Network supports the global campaign to reduce humanity's net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and below. It is an independent alliance of groups, providing opportunities to share ideas, link campaigns and support each other. Environmental, sporting, social, religious or community groups around the world who understand the need to move to zero emission are invited to consider joining the network. The Network provides some insights into what zero emission mean to… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - Y is for Yangtze & Yellow Rivers
Pollution and over-fishing have wiped out a third of the fish species in the Yellow river - China's second longest waterway. This from Jonathan Watts in Beijing on 18 January 2007 reporting for Guardian Unlimited. The extinction toll strengthens fears that China's major rivers are losing their ability to support life as the country's rapid economic growth takes an increasingly heavy toll on the environment. Winding 5,390km from the Tibetan plateau to the Bohai sea, the Yellow… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - X is for Xcel Energy
By becoming a founding reporter of The Climate Registry, a non-profit organization established to measure and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), Xcel Energy joins 39 States, five Canadian provinces, three Native American tribes, two Mexican states and the District of Columbia in the organization. 'I believe climate change is a global problem and the time to act is now,' said Dick Kelly, Xcel Energy chairman, president and CEO. The Climate Registry protocol is based on the… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - W is for Water, water, everywhere.
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - V is for Vehicles for change
Chief executives of 13 automobiles companies and board members of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA), in a letter published in the UK Financial Times 10 December 2007, called for 'the kind of comprehensive agreement that our planet needs'. The European automakers stated: 'We are proud of our achievements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from our vehicles and are ready to build on them in pursuit of still better products. We shall be all the more successful… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - U is for UNFCCC
With 192 Parties, the United Nations Framework Convention on Cimate Change (UNFCCC) has near universal membership and is the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol has to date 176 member Parties. Under the Protocol, 36 States, consisting of highly industrialised countries and countries undergoing a transition to a market economy, have legally binding emission limitation and reduction commitments. The ultimate objective is to stabilise greenhouse gas… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - T is for Tax on Carbon
Various proposals have been put in recent times for a tax on carbon. In The Australian 12 November 2007, John Humphreys of the Centre for Independent Studies has recommended the new Australian Government consider a 'revenue-neutral carbon tax' as a means to drive a faster transition to cutting greenhouse gas emissions with less impact on… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - S is for Solar Power
Australia announced plans on 25 October 2007 to build the world's biggest solar power station. Federal government will contribute A$75 million towards the cost of the photovoltaic solar power plant in the first of a series of projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Australian Treasurer Peter Costello said the plant near Mildura in the southern state of Victoria would be the biggest of its kind in the world. The 154-megawatt power station will cost a total of A$420 million… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - R is for Renewable Targets
When Kevin Rudd announced during the November 2007 federal election campaign in Australia that a Labor government would raise the mandatory renewable energy targets to 20% by 2020, it was greeted enthusiastically by the clean-energy lobby but described as unrealistic and unachievable by conventional energy producers and suppliers. The existing target for renewables was raised by the Liberal government in September 2007 to 15% - or 30 000 giggawatt hours - up from the previous target… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - Q is for Queensland going to waste
A major report - The Queensland State of Waste Report - reveals Queenslanders are among the worst recyclers in Australia. 'This report shows that Queensland lags way behind most of the other states in waste recovery, only recycling 27% of the waste it produces,' said Toby Hutcheon, Coordinator of Queensland Conservation Council (QCC). As a result, over A$350 million is wasted in landfills around Queensland every year. Hutcheon said Queensland is now at the crossroads, 'Either… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - P is for Peak Oil
The world is running out of oil. The situation is close to reaching the stage where we are using more oil than we are finding. According to Charles Maxwell, a veteran US energy analyst, 'In 1930, we found 10 billion new barrels of oil in the world, and we used 1.5 billion. We reached a peak in 1964, when we found 48 billion barrels and used approximately 12 billion. In 1988, we found 23 billion barrels and used 23 billion barrels. That was the crossover when we started finding less… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - O is for Offsetting carbon
In Australia and around the world, carbon offsetting schemes abound. However, concern has been expressed by environmental groups and others - including climate change scientist and author Dr Tim Flannery - that a proper auditing system for carbon offsetting is required. In June 2007, consumer watchdog Choice has a thorough look at such schemes offered directly by airlines and travel agencies, and the calculations for offsets by leading carbon offset companies - Climate… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - N is for Nuclear
As Australia considers the nuclear option for its future clean energy needs, the strongest advocate in the land for this is Ziggy Switkowski, head of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). He spoke about a nuclear future in a climate-changed world at the Brisbane Institute in late September 2007. Besides referring to the extensive safe use of nuclear energy as an energy source in many overseas countries, he pointed out that ANSTO is recognised as an… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - M is for Methane
It may have become fashionable to target four-wheel drives as gas guzzlers and heavy emitters, but they are probably less damaging to the environment than the cows and sheep that are essential to the rural economy. Methane emissions from both ends of cattle and sheep are causing great concern, according to Times Online in July 2007. The UK government has asked researchers to find ways to cut down on methane (a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful at driving global warming than carbon… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - K is for Kyoto Protocol
An international agreement made in 1997 (in the Japanese city of Kyoto), the Kyoto Protocol, sets emission reduction targets for developed countries and establishes mechanism to reduce the emissions of developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol is an addendum to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It took one year for the member countries of the UNFCCC to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse gas… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - J is for JENI
The JPMorgan Environmental Index - JENI (or JENI Carbon Beta in full) - is the first high-grade corporate bond index designed to address the risks of climate change in a rigorous way. A collaboration between JPMorgan and Innovest Strategic Investment Advisors, a world leader in providing environmental analysis to institutional investors, JENI-Carbon Beta is designed to enable credit investors to make return- driven investment decisions that systematically take the risks and… Continue
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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - I is for International Energy Agency (IEA)
Many coal-fired power stations all over the world currently operate at efficiencies well below 30%. 'This is a significant waste of energy and an unnecessary cause of climate-damaging CO2 emissions. Given that the share of coal in power generation is rising, this is alarming', Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said in Paris on 23 October 2007. 'Since coal-fired power generation technologies with efficiencies close to 45% are already operating… Continue
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