New Zealand announces carbon trading scheme

(ClimateRadar.com) New Zealand announced that it was launching a new carbon trading scheme.

http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/

Qantas goes carbon neutral

(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 and maintain around 90,000 Mallee Eucalyptus trees across Australia in an agreement with CO2 Australia,” Mr Dixon said.

http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn/au/publicaffairs/details?ArticleID=2007/sep07/3655

AUSTRALIA: Carbon offset will not be mandatory

(Source: ABC Australia) http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s2040546.htm

Climate change to wipe out Bondi – study

(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

Former Midnight Oil singer pushes for action on climate change in Australia

(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 give the Friends of Clayoquot Sound a boost because hardly anyone in the world was paying attention to their protests.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=87c1a7e1-6951-4e35-9874-24c624443bb3&k=18855 

It’s not easy being green

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

Australia: $25m climate-change campaign launched

(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

New Zealand coalition Start first online Carbon Trading platform

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

Sinking Tuvalu pleads for global warming action

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 

Australian businesses in dark over carbon trading

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