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Emerging national positions leading into Copenhagen
Written by Karla Bell on Monday, 12 October 2009
Recently in Go-Media. The U.S position on Climate Change is overshadowing all other discussions in the lead up to Copenhagen, even at a conference I recently attended in Melbourne Australia - the 5th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference, August 24-26th. The Australian position requires global consensus for a greenhouse gas emissions target by 25% with a successful Post 2012 Agreement in place, but only 5% if that is not concluded. It all depends on what the U.S does in Copenhagen according to their minister Penny Wong
The European Union is the only group that will continue with strong commitments independent of the U.S position with a 20% reduction of greenhouse gases on 1990 levels by 2020 and 30% if a global agreement is concluded.
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Pragmatic Environmentalist and Entrepreneur
A long time pragmatic environmentalist, Karla is probably best known as the driving force behind developing the Green aspect of the Olympics starting with the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, while working for Greenpeace in the Atmosphere and Energy campaign. She has since been an advisor to both the public and private sector on green infrastructure and emissions trading, and has been a proponent of the need to bring transparency and automation to help scale emissions trading markets.
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Written by Karla Bell on Sunday, 11 October 2009
A recent article by ABC Carbon on the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme. Ken Hickson of ABC Carbon did this interview and Profile of me: Karla Bell.
The driving force for “greening” the Olympic Games, Fiji-born, Australian educated Karla Bell wants to see voluntary carbon offsetting incorporated into emission trading schemes, more use of agricultural offsets, as [...]
The US Voluntary Carbon Market
Written by Nelli Theyel on Tuesday, 8 September 2009
The United States’ resistance to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the introduction of state and regional regulations rather than national carbon market have limited US activity in the global carbon market. However, the development of a voluntary carbon market in the US has occurred to compensate for the lack of a national, regulated carbon market. [...]
> Read more …The State of the US Carbon Market
Written by Nelli Theyel on Friday, 21 August 2009
The carbon market in the United States has developed slowly due to government opposition to regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resistance to endorse the Kyoto Protocol. As a result, the US emitted 17 percent more CO2 emissions in 2008 compared to 1990, according to the German Renewable Energy Industry Institute (IWR). In contrast, [...]
> Read more …Green Building offsets offer big returns
Written by Karla Bell on Monday, 10 August 2009
Copy from my Column from Sustainable Industries July 2009
The American Clean Energy and Security Act, known as the Waxman-Markey bill, is “a rare opportunity to rise above parochial concerns to enact a bill with a profound national impact,”according to President Barack Obama. Republican critics are attacking Democrats as pro-business and anti-consumer and small business, [...]
Alternating political moods toward a carbon offset market in the United States
Written by Nelli Theyel on Friday, 31 July 2009
Over the past 10 years, US political leaders have played only a minor role in the global carbon offset market, changing their views about climate change and global warming with each new administration. Once a forerunner of the Climate Change Conference held in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, the United States failed to stay [...]
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Campaign Diary - Energy Efficiency & Agricultural offsets in U.S. Cap and Trade
Campaign Diary for Energy Efficiency and Agricultural Offsets to be in included in the U.S. Cap and Trade and revised Kyoto Protocol December 2009. This is a campaign progress report.
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April 24th - Monday April 27th, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco is hosting a panel discussion on cap & trade and other market mechanisms. Panelists include Josh Margolis, CEO of Cantor CO2e and Eileen Tutt, Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Cal EPA. Tickets are $18. Program begins at 6:30pm at 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor. Reception to follow at 7:30pm. http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1
March 13th, Sydney - Listen to Bill Joy, a longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005. He is advocating that the skills of Silicon Valley be put at the disposal of Carbon Valley. Bill helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve the most difficult problems. He also looks to help entrepreneurs who have discoveries and inventions that can solve energy and resource problems, and helps them apply 21st century advances in physics, chemistry and the natural sciences to help create abundance. Bill Joy was Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He has been called the “Edison of the Internet.”
March 9th - Great interview on Charlie Rose with Stevan Chu “A conversation with Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy”. He is talking about green buildings, weatherization packages, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Feb 24th - Carbonflow policy document is attached. Energy Efficiency in the U.S Cap and Trade and revised Kyoto Protocol
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A special section on daily living by Karla Bell
What to eat - Local food for less food miles, organic and less meat
British Academic, Tim Lang, on World Food Day, adviser to the UK Government on food security and tackling obesity, said one of the key ways Britain can help tackle Climate Change is through food policy. Lang, says, “not only should we buy local produce, but “we must cut down on eating animals and dairy foodstuffs to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced in rearing livestock”.
The popular wisdom on food and agricultural contributions to Climate Change has been espoused in terms of Food Miles, a phrase coined by Professor Lang. He has added two other parts to the ‘buy local’ movement solution to agricultural emissions that is buying organic to reduce pesticides and chemicals for human health reasons and to consume less meat as the conventional view is that herbivores produce large quantities of methane emissions contributing to Climate Change. See main ghgblog.com for a contrary view by Dr Allen Savoury.
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