In stark contrast to the bad politics and bad science in the Australian parliament, the US has moved forward and it’s equivalent to our CPRS legislation passed the lower house yesterday.
If you want to read more, there are lots of news reports. It’s also the subject of Barrack Obama’s weekly address to the US nation:
“[We] [...]
The Labour party has been pushing for a vote on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, not because they think it will pass, but because they know it will be defeated.
As Tim Colbert said in The Age: “The Government supports its emissions trading scheme, but would like to see it defeated when it comes before the [...]
While the Coalition is trying to filibuster away the CPRS, one parliamentarian is trying to call into question very basic climate science. This is a pretty depressing turn in the mainstream public debate on climate change.
Independent Senator Steve Fielding claims to be open minded on climate change and “not a sceptic”. It’s hard to see [...]
The Department of Climate Change has announced it will be running a series of NGER reporting workshops with the first to be held this Thursday 25 June in Perth. The workshops are aimed at NGER registrants and will provide a brief overview of NGER but, more particularly, walk participants through the use of OSCAR, the [...]
The goal of Performance Management is always the same: to explicitly determine priorities, establish regular measurements, set targets, and review progress in a repeatable fashion.
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Historically, performance in IT has generally been measured in terms of cost and service levels.
Some describe Green IT as the environmentally responsible and sustainable use of IT assets, [...]
An interesting chain of events during the week: The Clean Energy Council released a report after engaging Access Economics to quantify the net impact on employment as a result of the current Government’s State and Federal climate change policies.
The report concluded that 28,230 full time equivalent (FTE) positions will be created over the period 2010 [...]
This is one of the key findings from a new and very comprehensive US Government climate change report.
There were ten key findings in all:
Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.
Climate changes are underway in the United States and are projected to grow.
Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase.
Climate change will stress [...]
Sunday evening’s TV news featured a story that 500 homes in Perth would participate in a trial to receive real-time energy meters in their homes. These energy meters allow residents to see how much electricity is being used across the whole house at any instant in time.
This is a great initiative, and I advocate this [...]
Sustainable event management (SEM) is about applying sustainable development principles to the management of a particular event. Specifically, it looks at minimising an event’s ecological footprint and ensuring that it does not impact negatively on the communities and stakeholders involved.
As the world becomes more aware of climate change and other sustainability issues, sustainable events [...]
This is the subject of an interesting conference that finished in London last week. There have been some very thought provoking discussions going on and it strikes me again that the public debate in the UK is much more progressive then here in Australia. For example, here is Terry Leahy, the CEO of Tesco, talking [...]