According to Andrew Macintosh, Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy, stopping native forest harvesting would generate enough carbon credits during the period 2013-2020 to meet 45 per cent of Australia’s abatement task. Read More

NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh's efforts in fighting climate change have been rewarded with the UN registering its multi-crore carbon trading scheme that involves providing green cover to barren 4,000 hectares in the state. Read More

Several green organizations said the U.N. rules, or methodology, applied to the 4,000 MW supercritical plant owned by Reliance Power were flawed and that the project was viable without the sweeteners of tradable carbon credits called certified emissions reductions (CERs). The power station, in Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, is the second Reliance Power project to be formally registered by the United Nations under its Clean Development Mechanism. Read More

Paulownia tomentosa has marvelous press on the Internet. Several Australian and United States companies make claims of extraordinary growth, unbelievable wood values, magnificent beauty. Paulownia, they write, can shade an area in record time, resist insects, feed livestock, and improve the soil component. Look at this quick review, Introduction To Royal Paulownia. Read More

THE Gillard government's renewable energy scheme will saddle consumers with more than $1 billion in extra electricity costs this year, and uncertainty created by its failure to implement a carbon pricing regime is forcing power bills higher than they would otherwise be. Research to be released today by the Australian Industry Group finds that a "well-designed" carbon price would ease some of the pressure on energy prices, which are forecast to rise over the next decade. Read More

The failure to set emission cuts at last year’s climate talks in Copenhagen added $1 trillion to the price tag of preventing dangerous increases in temperatures, the International Energy Agency estimated. Read More

This report is intended to contribute to the debate about climate change and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Importantly many of the issues addressed in this paper are already adopted by ECO2 Forests within our E4 Philosophy Read More

China's hunger for wood raw-material pushes timber prices upward, increasing the importation of logs and wood chips to record levels in 2010, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Read More

Big business will head the discussion on how to implement a carbon tax in Australia; a situation causing concern in some sectors. Read More

THE Australian Greens have secured a deputy chair position on a new parliamentary climate change committee, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced. Read More