And measuring carbon footprints is no cakewalk, as explained in this article about Cisco UK’s efforts to measure the emissions impact of its activities and those of its staff.
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The New Yorker magazine has an interesting article by Michael Specter on the science and ethics of measuring carbon footprints.
For some reason, many environmentalists have a bias in favour of local consumption, and against the consumption of goods that have traveled a long distance between their place of production and their place [...]
We attended the 2008 Climex/New Values Carbon Trading Masterclass in Amsterdam last month, and found it excellent value. There severarl very interesting discussions, particularly on emissions prices. Climex have made the presentations available for download here.
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Over at The New Carbon Cycle, there’s a round-up of recent activity in the US Federal Congress regarding carbon emissions policies and related international trade issues.
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Oxford University economist Paul Klemperer has written a very interesting article in the FT, rebutting the climate change sceptics. If the scientific consensus is wrong (he argues), and our current models of climate change are inaccurate, then we should be more worried, not less. This is because, if the models are wrong, then [...]
