Climate pioneer backs tax on carbon, nuclear power
– 5th Mar 2010
The scientist who first convinced the world that climate change was a problem has backed a Greens’ proposal for a carbon tax as the only solution being offered in Canberra.
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Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Blog, December 14, 2009
– 14th Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs
Dr Anne-Marie Warris writes about the rapid changes that are happening at the Bella Centre, the home of the COP 15 Global Climate Change Conference negotiations.
Start of week 2 and reports indicate the waiting times at Bella centre have been getting longer. Late afternoon indications are that they have closed registration and will reduce NGO’s to 7000 individual max tomorrow, so the queues should be interesting…
MRVAribility
– 11th Dec 2009 by Anne-Marie Warris
Dr Anne-Marie Warris’s Blog from day three of the COP 15.
COP 15 and the Future of the Human Race
– 11th Dec 2009
Sean Cuthbert’s Blog from day three of the COP 15 conference.
Hopenhagen
– 11th Dec 2009 by Madlen King
Read Madlen King, LRQA’s Global Climate Change Manager, Blog from day three of the COP 15 conference.
Measuring Organisational Carbon Footprint, ISO 14064
– 20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs
ISO 14064: an emerging standard on Greenhouse Gas
accounting and verification is the title of a working paper on ISO’s latest GHG standard. The paper from Kevin Boehmer, Canadian Standards Association and
Secretary for the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change and
Aleg Cherp, ECOLOGIA and Central European University
Budapest and an expert on the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change, takes a closer look at the development of ISO 14064, the voluntary standard for organisations looking to measure and report on their organisation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
COP15 Copenhagen - United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
Event: 7th Dec 2009 – 18th Dec 2009
The COP15 conference is the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention. The conference will take place from 7 December to 18 December 2009.
FAQ’s about EU ETS Aviation
– 13th Nov 2009
Madlen King, LRQA’s Climate Change Manager and a leading EU ETS expert, answered the questions of aircraft operators and other members of the audience of the recent LRQA Business Assurance Webinar on EU ETS Aviation.
Carbon Forum Asia 2009
Event: 26th Oct 2009 – 27th Oct 2009
The CARBON FORUM ASIA 2009 Conference is about highlighting critical issues & showcasing and discussing innovative solutions.
How to curb CO2 emission in shipping industry?
– 25th Oct 2009 by Richard Gunawan
The international maritime transport community expects the annual volume of green-house gasses (GHG) emitted by commercial shipping to grow 55% to 1,345 metric tonnes (Mt) by 2020.
In 2007, global shipping’s GHG emissions reached 870 Mt — or roughly equivalent to Germany’s production over the same period – but that figure is expected to quadruple by [...]
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