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Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
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23 January 2007
Carbon II
To elaborate on my brief commentary yesterday, dialogue has been positively exploding on the carbon and emissions trading front. The Economist today summarized US domestic discussion as California and several states comprising a significant portion of the Northeast megalopolis have announced plans to develop carbon trading environments. This state-led development helps explain the recent news that several significant heavy industrial corporations have banded together behind a banner calling for a national system. If change is coming, companies seek the most cost effective means of adapting, and complying with patchwork regulations across different states most certainly is not the most effective means of doing so. Similarly, Kyoto has its limits, as the Green.View column discusses—after 2012, the future is unknown. Part of America’s complaints about the treaty were certainly legitimate.
Economist Green.View
Economist Green.View
22 January 2007
Carbon
An Inconvenient Truth: Carbon Calculator
I rack up under 4 tons a year (around 3.8), but I think I can reduce that further. What's your number?
I've watched over the past several months with tremendous excitement as terms like "carbon offset" have percolated into certain segments of everyday conversation. In the UK, the food markets are voluntarily beginning to add additional label information next to nutrition facts regarding the carbon impact of the food we eat. Businesses are cropping up where conscientious citizens can purchase offsets to neutralize their individual carbon impact by pushing money towards green energy operations and other services. Even without Kyoto, progress is moving forward. The UK, California, and a few select other areas are leading the way, but even China is beginning to assess methods for improving its green quotient in time for the Olympics. Granted, this is all largely sunny optimism without much substance unless wide majorities jump on board these initiatives. Otherwise, carbon offsets will have minimal impact. But still.... systems are maturing, and citizens conscious of their global footprint find an increasing field of methods with which to minimize it.
Now if we can just figure out a way to make jet travel more green.....
I rack up under 4 tons a year (around 3.8), but I think I can reduce that further. What's your number?
I've watched over the past several months with tremendous excitement as terms like "carbon offset" have percolated into certain segments of everyday conversation. In the UK, the food markets are voluntarily beginning to add additional label information next to nutrition facts regarding the carbon impact of the food we eat. Businesses are cropping up where conscientious citizens can purchase offsets to neutralize their individual carbon impact by pushing money towards green energy operations and other services. Even without Kyoto, progress is moving forward. The UK, California, and a few select other areas are leading the way, but even China is beginning to assess methods for improving its green quotient in time for the Olympics. Granted, this is all largely sunny optimism without much substance unless wide majorities jump on board these initiatives. Otherwise, carbon offsets will have minimal impact. But still.... systems are maturing, and citizens conscious of their global footprint find an increasing field of methods with which to minimize it.
Now if we can just figure out a way to make jet travel more green.....
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