Climate change is forcing companies of all sizes to rethink the way they do business.. to find ways to sustain growth in a low, rather than high, carbon economy.
RICHARD SHARMAN, KPMG Carbon Advisory Group
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Spotlight on Carbon Markets
All eyes on U.S. carbon market in hopes of foretelling good fortune of carbon markets worldwide
As the United States continues to develop and implement carbon regulation policies in time for the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, all eyes are intently watching how the ever-growing U.S. carbon market will widen as a precursor to markets worldwide, claim experts within the carbon finance and climate legislation camps.With investors and those interested in carbon markets descended on Washington D. C. for the Carbon TradeEx America forum, many listened carefully as speakers discussed the relevancy and positive impact renewable energy investments in U.S. President Obama’s stimulus package will have upon the development of the U.S. carbon market, still within its early stages of implementation and operation.
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APP Indonesia Takes Voluntary Steps Toward GHG Reduction
Though not bound by the Kyoto Protocol emission caps, APP Indonesia is taking bold, voluntary steps to quantify its carbon and social footprints, and reduce its GHG emissions.APP Indonesia is one of Asia’s leading pulp and paper producers, with a current annual combined production capacity for pulp, paper and packaging grades of more than seven million tons. Read More >>CN Net
The CN Net is a tool for outreach, communication, networking, and awareness-raising on climate change around the globe. The network was launched at UNEP’s Governing Council on 21 February 2008. This initiative, delivered online, encourages widespread and national, regional and global ‘buy in’ to climate neutrality at various levels of society.
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UNEP’s Sustainable United Nations (SUN) initiative aims at providing practical support to organisations to reduce GHG emissions. We are now starting to gain some practical experience from working with various organisations inside and outside UN, and today I wanted to share some recent practical experiences:
Offsetting Democracy
Kevin Smith from Carbon Trade Watch looks at how carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes that need to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Read More >>A sustainable vision for the aviation industry
Philippe Rochat of the International Air Transport Association puts forward a sustainable vision for the aviation industry. Read More >>Company climate change risk strategies and investor expectations
Ian Woods from AMP Capital Investors takes a look at investor expectations of a company's climate change risk approach. Read More >>View interview - Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union (ITU
"ITU wants to ensure that climate change is addressed in a standardised manner, that it is measured with agreed standards... Even though information and communication technology is not really part of the problem, it is part of the solution and we intend to play that vital role that ICT can play in combatting climate change". Read More >>View interview - Nathalie Kosciusko Morizet, Secretary of State to the Environment, France
"Last autumn France launched a new environmental campaign which imposed many inventive, if not radical, ideas on combating climate change. It envelops a change on several aspects of everyday life from public transportation, personal automobiles and housing." Read More >>View interview - Kimmo Tiilikainen, Minister of Environment, Finland
“Emissions from private transportation are high and we need to reduce a lot of them so we encourage people through taxation to buy cars with lower emissions” Read More >>Climate Action Media and Distribution partners
