(ClimateRadar.com) New Zealand announced that it was launching a new carbon trading scheme.
http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/
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(ClimateRadar.com) The Qantas Group today launched a Carbon Offset Program, backed by a pledge to offset the carbon emissions of every international and domestic Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar flight. “Qantas will pay to offset the equivalent of approximately 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases associated with these flights, with the money to be used to plant [...]
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(Source: ABC Australia) http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s2040546.htm
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(News.com.au) THREE of Australia’s most popular beaches could be wiped out by rising sea levels in less than 100 years thanks to climate change, a Sydney mayor said today.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22426911-5005962,00.html?from=public_rss
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(The Vancouver Sun) In the summer of 1993, Langer and other environmental activists were struggling in their efforts to stop logging on an ancient rain forest on the west coast of Vancouver Island. She thought it would be a longshot when she asked the towering environmental lawyer with a shaved head if his band could [...]
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Sunday Herald, Australia – THE high-profile eco-friendly company Easy Being Green, which made a crusade out of installing energy-saving light bulbs, will fold up business in NSW today, laying off 150 staff and about 100 contractors following the crash in the NSW carbon market.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/its-not-easy-being-green/2007/09/13/1189276899626.html
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(Hearld Sun) FAMILIES will be encouraged to become “carbon-neutral” by planting trees and other green initiatives, as part of a $25 million climate-change advertising blitz.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22420246-662,00.html
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M-co, Trade Me and Meridian Energy are working together to bring carbon trading to New Zealand. The key to enabling carbon trading is the new M-co user-friendly carbon emission units registry called ‘Regi’, which will facilitate the first ever auction of carbon emission units in New Zealand.
http://www.regi.co.nz/regPublic/registry.mt_announcement.showannouncement?p_announcement_id=1
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The group of atolls and reefs, home to about 10,000 people, is barely two metres on average above sea level. One study has predicted that at the current rate the ocean is rising, Tuvalu could disappear in the next 30 to 50 years.
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/14/2032472.htm?section=justin
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A new report shows 40 per cent of Australian companies have no understanding of emissions trading schemes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/11/2030282.htm
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