One hundred percent
By Chris Tobias, a day ago
Originally published in Idealog #27, page 94
It’s 11:23pm and Les Mills tycoon Phillip Mills is still at work, running weary, sounding a bit hoarse and facing the first flight out to Europe the next day. No gym balls or yoga gear today, though—the maestro of health and fitness …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘April, 2010’
Finally, some horsepower getting behind NZ cleantech
Media blasts Rudd’s retreat on CPRS
Rudd’s ETS flip-flop sparks climate chaos
LENORE TAYLOR NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
April 29, 2010
THE Rudd government has conceded its emissions trading scheme could be delayed beyond the 2013 election, and that the politically inspired decision to leave the country in policy limbo for at least three years will make it much more expensive …
Clean tech potentially worth more than $5bn a year to NZ
Huge potential for New Zealand in the clean technology space:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10639905&pnum=3
EU ETS Overview
A May 2008 Pew Center analysis by two leading experts on the design and implementation of emission trading regimes reviewed the initial phase of the ETS and directly addressed these issues. Noting that the initial period (2005-7) was a trial period with the goal of developing the necessary infrastructure for successful trading, the study concluded …
Report: State of Green Business 2010
In its third annual edition of State of GreenBusiness report, GreenBiz.com continued to measure the environmental impacts of the emerging green economy. This year’s effort was characterised by the Great Recession and its myriad of impacts on individuals, companies, and governments around the world.
Carbon Intensity
Absolute greenhouse gas emissions have shrunk along with the momentum of …
Eyjafjallajoekull: The world’s first negative CO2 volcano
Who’s emitting the most CO2 per day?
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/
Clean Energy Trends 2010
According to Clean Edge, clean energy has become the driving force for the global economic recovery. In the U.S. approximately $100 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package has gone to clean-tech investments and activities. South Korea’s “Green New Deal” is estimated to commit $84 billion to clean-tech investments by 2013; and China, by some …
Implementing the Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Australia’s plans for a multi-billion dollar carbon trading scheme were delayed further in February when the Australian Senate postponed debate on the package of 11 bills until at least May.
The delay has intensified the political stalemate over an issue championed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd but which has damaged his government’s credibility and could hurt …
International Carbon Trading: Reflections on Copenhagen and the state of the market.
The Copenhagen summit drew to a close in December with a bare-minimum agreement that fell well short of the conference’s original goals. Rather than a full and legally binding international agreement to reduce climate change, the accord represents a statement of intent from 193 member states to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels within their own …
The ETS and New Zealand Forestry
New Zealand Forestry
New Zealand is a world leader in the use of forestry for compliance-based carbon markets. Through the creation of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) and the Permanent Forests Sink Initiative (PFSI), New Zealand currently represents the only platform from which forest carbon sequestration can be converted into internationally traded Assigned …
