Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme: $1 a day to save planet
theaustralian.com.au. Lenore Taylor, National correspondent | October 31, 2008
Rudd Government launches Australia's Low Pollution Future - The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation >>Press Release (links to PDF documents only.)
Apparently, we're not going to reduce greenhouse gases, we're going to reduce carbon emissions. The methane and nitrous oxide* emissions can look after themselves.
(*No wonder we're all acting as silly as drunk ducks ready for the Christmas dinner chop.)
And you'd think with all the talk of emission trading schemes and the imperative to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, that a story about an electric car network for Australia - well, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, would get a bit more traction.
Plan for electric car network
AIM Emissions Trading Scheme Survey 1st July 2008
theaustralian.com.au. Lenore Taylor, National correspondent | October 31, 2008
THE Rudd Government has moved to ease fears about the impact of its emissions trading scheme, releasing Treasury modelling showing the scheme is affordable, with households paying up to $7 a week more for electricity and gas, and no industries forced offshore.>> Full story
Rudd Government launches Australia's Low Pollution Future - The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation >>Press Release (links to PDF documents only.)
Apparently, we're not going to reduce greenhouse gases, we're going to reduce carbon emissions. The methane and nitrous oxide* emissions can look after themselves.
(*No wonder we're all acting as silly as drunk ducks ready for the Christmas dinner chop.)
And you'd think with all the talk of emission trading schemes and the imperative to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, that a story about an electric car network for Australia - well, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, would get a bit more traction.
Plan for electric car network
theage.com.au, Mex Cooper, October 23, 2008Thanks to Kwoff for the heads up on the electric car.
Australia will become the third country in the world to have an electric car network in a bid to run the country's 15 million cars on batteries powered by green energy under a plan announced today.
AIM Emissions Trading Scheme Survey 1st July 2008
The Australian business sector is largely unprepared for the introduction of the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme according to the findings of a new survey of top level executives conducted by the Australian Institute of Management.
Only 36 per cent of those surveyed were aware the Australian Government’s emissions trading scheme, the centrepiece of the nation’s greenhouse reduction efforts is to commence in 2010.
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