Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme is further challenged following the failure of the Copenhagen Summit to...
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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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When working to improve transport systems, it is paramount (for the achievement of the greater sustainable super-system in which we live) that ‘transport disadvantage’ is tackled as part and parcel of the mix of complex components. The achievement of economic and social wellbeing is highly vulnerable to transport disadvantage or transport exclusion.
There...
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The Garnaut Climate Change Review Group's long-awaited Emissions Trading Scheme Discussion Paper...
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The ABC has put together an excellent series of documentaries on...
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A carbon offset provider directory has recently been released as a website: Carbon Offset Guide Australia....
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I have recently become a trial member of the carshare group GoGet. As I don’t own a car, and occasionally require one for personal use, I thought a carshare membership might...
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In 1970, there were around 200 million cars in the world; by 2006 that number had increased to 850 million. What’s more, by 2030 this 2006 figure is expected to double (Worldwatch Institute)....
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Another wave of carbon-control issues has hit the popular media: debate over the nature of the future carbon emissions trading scheme, credibility and accountability of carbon offset projects, the debate over future energy sources. It is important not to gloss over the inclusion of, and implications for, the transport sector in these debates.
The...
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The city of Portland, Oregon in the US can boast some fantastic transport figures.
Over the last 10 years public transport use has increased by 65%; a predicted 40% increase in congestion has been avoided; cycling has increased by 257% due in part to cycling facilities, including dedicated cycle lanes throughout the city. Portland is also eradicating over 62 million car trips a year (right in the world’s most car dependent county).
So,...
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I recently went to a seminar, organised by the University of Sydney’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, on rewarding instead of charging road users. The seminar was...
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‘The vigorous man (woman) industriously striving for the improvement of his (her) condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man (woman) who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.’ (Ludwig von Mises)....
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'Climate change' and 'global warming' are phrases that have been buzzing about in the media, on the bus and at the dinner table with more and more frequency and intensity. This has been one catalyst for serious political attention being given to the important economic, environmental and social problem...
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Government and industry forecasts predict that the amount of freight moved by road is likely to double between 2000 and 2020 – just as it did between 1980 and 2000. The Australian heavy vehicle industry suggests that this will result in the addition of approximately 50,000 heavy trucks to the national fleet between 2005 and 2020 – 28,000 of them being semi-trailers and B-doubles (TIC/CVIAQ 2004, Trucks to meet the future road freight task: Challenges and directions).
One...
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While much of the national and international debate about strategies to reduce greenhouse emissions are predominantly focused on the need to contain emissions from stationary energy generation (i.e. coal-fired electricity generation), this is not the only sector that needs to be tackled if we are truly...
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