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Architectural Design Making a Positive Impact on Sustainability in your Liveable City

If you are faced with the question; “Are you part of a liveable city”, would you know how to answer? Many would consider any city that they live in as a liveable city, but what does that really mean? The answer revolves around a few simple words that some of us are well versed with, while others are not. – sustainability, conservation, environmentally friendly, eco-friendly and carbon friendly (to name a few). Creating a more liveable city comes down to several factors, beginning with residential and commercial designs that offer sustainable features. Modern technology is now proving that there are …

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With carbon trading conservation pays for itself

In a place like Tasmania we cannot escape nature because it’s all abound. Nature is a great provider. It gives us clean air, clean water and productive soils. It pollinates our crops, and gives us places to recreate and places for inspiration. People value nature for cultural connection to place, for the value it brings the community, for the value it brings our economy and for itself. The Tasmanian Land Conservancy has been working to make explicit some of those connections. In terms of the economic value, in 2010 TLC embarked on the New Leaf Project, acquiring 28,000ha of native …

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Carbon trading: the opportunities and pitfalls in Australia

It might be early days for carbon trading in Australia but many farmers and graziers are already trading or exploring how they can trade carbon. In April 2015, the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) conducted the first “reverse” auction to buy carbon credits with the second auction being conducted in November 2015. In a recent article by Thynne & Macartney it states while there are benefits, participating in the ERF and entering into a contract with the CER are not without risk. There are a number of methods landholders and producers can implement to earn tradeable Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) …

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US legislature to introduce a market-based mechanism to place a price on carbon?

13 February 2013 — US President Barack Obama has called on the US legislature to introduce a market-based mechanism to place a price on carbon. President Obama was delivering his 2013 State of the Union address, delivered to Congress, 13 February, Australian time. The President called on Congress to pass a bill similar to that proposed by Senator John McCain and former Senator Joe Lieberman a few years ago, which would have introduced a US “cap and trade” emissions trading scheme. “I urge this Congress to get together to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one …

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GlobalData Forecasts Increasingly Volatile Carbon Market

The price of carbon credits traded in regional and national emissions markets worldwide will become increasingly volatile and difficult to accurately forecast through 2015, according to a report by GlobalData. GlobalData said the prolonged European sovereign debt crisis, a glut of carbon credits and uncertainties under the Kyoto Protocol are expected to keep prices low through 2012. The recession in the European Union, which operates the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, will cause emissions to grow less than expected through this year. Economic conditions in the eurozone and outcomes of the Kyoto Protocol will determine the global carbon prices between 2013 …

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