Crikey’s pick of the green news for the day:
Mexico lead the way. Over in Poznan, Mexico has become one of the first developing countries to specify a carbon reduction target, aiming to halve their greenhouse emissions by 2050.
Is a fake Christmas tree better than a real one? asks Slate. Kind of, but not really.
Obama’s environment [...]
If rumours are true, on Monday Penny Wong will announce an emissions reduction target that completely throws out of the window all the scientific opinion the Government has ever been given. But where are the scientists?
One story I have been told this morning is that Wong will be wildly spinning a 10% reduction below 2000 [...]
Some food for thought about our food in a New York Times article.
Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that the “trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18% of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates.” That’s more even than from cars, buses and airplanes. And it’s why farm emissions are a [...]
Crikey’s pick of the green links for today:
EU carbon trading brings no benefits. The EU carbon trading scheme has generated millions for polluters and had no appreciable benefit to the environment, writes the International Herald Tribune. German power company RWE, the biggest carbon dioxide emitter in Europe, received about €5 billion in the first three [...]
The Rudd Government has all but locked in its greenhouse gas targets for 2020, and at a reduction of only 5-15% it looks like they’re not going to meet the expectations of scientists and environmentalists.
Week two in Poznan starts with a small pause in the official meetings for the observation of the Islamic feast of Eid Al-Adha. While it is officially a day off, there is still plenty going on in the conference centre. The second week is when the majority of journalists and ministers arrive and the negotiations [...]
The last few weeks there’s been a lot of speculation about what target the government will announce next Monday. Will it be 25% as scientists recommend, or 5 to 15% (by 2020 over 2000 levels) as some media articles suggested last week. As someone from an organisation that is actually run by young people, [...]
Crikey intern Michael Griffiths wraps up the latest news from Poznan:
The UN Climate Change Conference is currently taking place in Poznan, Poland, and so far it seems that it’s been more of the same — developing countries saying the rich nations aren’t doing enough to reduce greenhouse emissions and rich nations saying that they’ll do [...]
Kevin Rudd received a standing ovation at the Bali climate negotiations last December for ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. But one year on, with the next round of climate talks underway in Poznan, his leadership on climate is faltering. The way he’s going he’ll be bood at Copenhagen.
China and other developed countries are growing increasingly disenchanted [...]
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