Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme is further challenged following the failure of the Copenhagen Summit to...
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Rare Consulting recently compared the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with different forms of fuels for passenger vehicles. A number of fuel types and their emissions were compared over the full life cycle, which includes the extraction of raw product (such as oil or gas), refining, transportation to consumer and then combustion emissions in a passenger vehicle.
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With heightened awareness about the need to prepare for climate change, and increasing action in the climate change adaptation area across all scales and a range of sectors, the term ‘resilience building’ is being increasingly referred to. Climate change adaptation is not the only area in which the term is being applied – another is in response to the need to prepare for a low carbon era and a world with less oil. So is ‘resilience building’ a new buzz term or is the concept more significant than just the latest flavour of the month? The term ‘ecological sustainability’ met with similar questions in its early days of use.
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With the Toyota Prius leading...
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The CNW Marketing Research report Dust to Dust released...
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Flying has received a lot of attention from the media over the last few months. Here are some facts to keep in mind when thinking about flying in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
Currently, domestic aviation accounts for around 5.1 Mt (almost 1%) of total Australian greenhouse gas emissions. The contribution from domestic aviation to total emissions is predicted to increase to just over 1% by 2020 (8.7 Mt).
As...
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