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Emissions trading scheme or direct action – What’s the best choice?
In Australia I see essentially two political choices for taking action on climate change. Vote for a party committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and implementing an emissions trading scheme (ETS) or vote for a party not committed to ...
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What are you voting for?
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has released its scorecard for the forthcoming federal election, and will update it weekly. With only 3 weeks to go, the three major political parties have clearly put entirely different emphases on the importance of ...
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Fast trains – a quantum leap in public transport
I’m starting this blog posting at 277 km/hr on a very fast train with 16 carriages and 100 seats per carriage. The train is full. Where am I? Not in Japan or France. I’m somewhere between Wuxi and Shuzhou in ...
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Victoria’s brown coal emissions rise 10% in a decade
Victoria’s Energy Mix 2009-2010 report was recently released by Environment Victoria (www.environmentvictoria.org.au) showing that little progress has been made to reduce Victoria’s reliance on polluting coal-fired electricity over the past decade. Our energy mix remains dangerously unbalanced. To make things ...
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DHL express Asia Pacific cuts emissions by 19% in 12 months
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Christopher Ong, Vice President Business Development, First Choice & GoGreen for DHL Asia Pacific , Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. The express division has cut its emissions by 19%, an impressive ...
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Linfox climate change leadership – cutting its emissions by 50% by 2015
I caught up again today with David McInnes, Group Manager Environment for Linfox - you can find the interview here. Linfox have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 28% per km since 2006/07. They ...
