Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and Nobel Prize Winner, will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa and deliver the 2008 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture entitled: “Our Vulnerable Earth – Climate Change, the IPCC and the role of Generation Green” at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, on Thursday, October 23, 2008. Read more here.
Canadians Want More Debate on Climate Change
“Canadians are deeply frustrated by the quality of politicians’ discussions of climate change and global warming according to a nationally representative poll carried out for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy by COMPAS Research and completed September 29, 2008. Such frustrations cut across regions and party groupings. Most Canadians tend to subscribe to the anthropogenic viewpoint that human activity is responsible for global warming and climate change. An overwhelming majority of the public nonetheless does not believe that the causes of climate change have been fully identified or that the debate has been settled. By a more than 4:1 margin, the public calls upon the media to provide more multi-sided reporting on the issue.” Read more here.
Dramatic Urbanization Warms California
Global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases is responsible for some of the overall heating observed in Los Angeles and the rest of California. Most of the increase in heat days and length of heat waves, however, is due to a phenomenon called the “urban heat island effect.” Read more here.
Bill Kininmonth to Speak at Melbourne Forum
A branch of the Victorian Liberal Party has been attacked for holding a climate science forum in Melbourne that will hear only one, unfashionable point of view: the skeptics. For more information on this, and other environment-related events, visit the community page at this blog.
Bill Kininmonth to Speak Tomorrow in Melbourne on Climate Change
Well known climate change skeptic, Bill Kininmonth, will be speaking at a community forum on Wednesday , October 1, at 8pm at the Marwal Centre, 9 Marwal Ave, North Balwyn. The organisers, the Kew Branch of the Liberal Party, are offering tea and biscuits afterwards.
The forum received some publicity in yesterday’s The Age newspaper.
Marketing Carbon at the Gold Coast
Dear Colleague,
The greatest gathering of global and domestic carbon market practitioners and businesses ever assembled in Australia – 100 speakers and 90 exhibitors representing leading carbon market experience from Europe, Asia, North America, New Zealand & Australia – will be on hand at Australia’s first international carbon market expo & conference on the Gold Coast in late October.
The final program can be viewed at: http://carbonexpo.com.au/uploads/file/FinalProgram22September.pdf
It is an ideal opportunity for businesses wishing to find out more about the Australian emissions trading scheme, and how to measure, manage and offset their own emissions to discuss these issues with global carbon market leaders and to survey the full range of carbon market products and services exhibiting at the trade fair.
Gold Coast accommodation is rapidly filling – so use the online registration form at http://www.carbonexpo.com.au to secure your participation and accommodation at this landmark inaugural event.
We look forward to seeing you on the Gold Coast next month.
Fiona Wain Tony Beck
CEO – EBA Chairman AETF
On behalf of the Organising Committee
To register visit the conference website:
Enquiries: Peter Sugg
Carbon Market Expo Australasia Secretariat
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.