Clive Crook, the Washington correspondent of the FT, dissects Senator Hilary Clinton’s plans for climate change policy here.
“She cannot be faulted, at any rate, for lack of ambition. The plan is comprehensive (to a fault) and the target for reductions in emissions is demanding. To get there, the proposed cap-and-trade regime would have to bite [...]

An article in the Sydney Morning Herald has reported claims from ecology experts that link global warming to public health. Changes to the delicate balance of climates around the world, experts say, could spawn a rise in “diseases transmitted by insects and those borne by water supplies”.
Aside from the potential spread of diseases, health is [...]

Australia was the setting and location for On The Beach, Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film of the novel by Nevil Shute about a post-nuclear-war world. Ava Gardner famously said of Melbourne that she could not think of a better place to make a movie about the end of the world.
Well, the [...]

The Brazilian carbon market is getting a $1m investment from Japan in a partnership with a Brazilian Research and Project Financing group-FINEP, according to exchange-handbook.com.
The investment will finance “a series of studies about the structuring and implementation of the carbon market”.
“According to estimates of the World Bank, Brazil has a potential to conquer approximately 10% [...]