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08 Aug 08
News Swinburne introduces Australia’s first accredited carbon accounting course
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In response to the community’s growing awareness of climate change, Swinburne University of Technology has introduced Australia’s first accredited course in carbon accounting.
Developed and delivered by the university’s National Centre for Sustainability (NCS), the three day course teaches participants how to identify and categorise carbon emissions, produce a carbon inventory and develop a carbon report.
06 Aug 08
IIM Ahmedabad to launch carbon finance course- Education-Services-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times
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After the Indian
Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML), it is now the turn of IIM Ahmedabad to
launch a programme on environmental management strategies with special focus on
carbon markets, a market in which India is now the second largest seller in the
world.
25 Jul 08
RSA - Carbon Limited - Personal Carbon trading - About Carbon Limited
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In a 3 year project, the RSA is exploring the idea for personal carbon trading, originally described by David Fleming in 1996. CarbonLimited is bringing together expertise from the commercial, social and financial sectors to subject ideas about personal carbon trading to rigorous analysis.
The project has so far been investigating how a personal carbon trading scheme might function, as well as analysing its potential social and economic impacts.
Business Spectator - Indian firms lag in climate action
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India's top firms face little stakeholder pressure to combat climate change with only about 40 per cent of the companies surveyed setting voluntary carbon emissions reduction goals, a report said.
A survey by KPMG consultants of 70 CEOs found their response to climate issues was driven largely by the need to comply with expected regulations, while leaving the leadership role in tackling global warming to the government.
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While many companies in the developed world have measured their baseline carbon footprint and set reduction targets over 5-10 years, in India only 41 per cent of firms had some qualified reduction goals to be achieved by 2010.
About 38 per cent had no such goals.
18 Jul 08
Green plan comes at cost, admits Rudd | theage.com.au
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REDUCING carbon emissions will not be cost free for Australians, Kevin Rudd has bluntly declared, as he turns the heat on the Liberals to pass the Government's scheme in the Senate next year.
17 Jul 08
The 7.30 Report - Govt releases green paper on climate change
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Well it's hardly a surprise but the Government's green paper tells us an emissions trading scheme will be costly.
It will be inflationary and could push the price of electricity up by as much as 16 per cent.
But to ease the pain, the Government has promised compensation for pensioners, motorists and low income households; and assistance for high emitting businesses.
The Greens aren't happy, and neither is the Opposition. But the broad outlines of the Governments design to reduce carbon pollution has been welcomed by the business community.
08 Jul 08
G8 aims to halve emissions by 2050 | theage.com.au
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THE powerful Group of Eight developed nations have taken a cautious step towards a new global climate change deal, agreeing to a goal of at least halving world carbon emissions by 2050.
04 Jul 08
Garnaut Review Web Site: Home
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The Garnaut Climate Change Review has been commissioned by Australia's Commonwealth, state and territory governments to examine the impacts, challenges and opportunities of climate change for Australia. A Draft Report was released today at 12:30pm, and the Final Report is due by 30 September 2008.
03 Jul 08
Business sense | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
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The CEOs of 100 large multinational corporations -- including companies from carbon-intense industries -- have signed a World Economic Forum statement [PDF] that calls on the G8 to create a strategy to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050.
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