There’s been a lot of talk lately about the gaping holes in the international carbon market, and in the European scheme that has spurred it, the EU ETS. Financial writers are, rightly, pointing out that it’s difficult to verify that, say, an airline selling carbon permits isn’t selling the same tonne of carbon to...
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America, climate change, and the world: misplaced rancor over Bush’s refusal to play in the Kyoto sandbox
Germany’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have gone up over the past few years, in spite of its full support of the Kyoto Treaty and participation in the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). It demands that America, the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels and largest emitter of GHGs, join Kyoto. And yet Germany opposes...
Lunn’s 4,000 megawatts: is nuclear renewable?
The media are busy trying to interpret the ream of Conservative environmental announcements this week. As I have mentioned, it looks like Harper and company finally learned how to talk the green talk. That should worry professional green groups and the opposition—their exclusive copyright on feel-good buzzwords like “renewable” and “conservation” just expired. The...
Nuclear power and heavy industry in Ontario: McGuinty’s Kyoto opportunity, part II
Here’s a question. Should major industrial energy users use less energy? Industry is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Ontario. Electricity generation is number three. Transportation, all those cars and trucks, is the biggest source category. Bear in mind that “industry” is a pretty wide-ranging term. The numerous firms operating in...
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