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Redundant Ridout

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dk.au
1 year, 3 months ago
in Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Howardia, Markets and Politics
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Those coal eating surrender monkeys1 sure get defensive when cornered. The latest shrill squeaking comes from Heather Ridout of AIG with the plaintive request to cut carbon dioxide later. Ali Moore nailed this duplicitous bullshit argument in an interview, pointing out that we’ll have to deal with it at some point in the cycle. Ridout’s response is to start with a ‘dry run’:

Well a dry run can take a number of forms. One approach is just to require reporting without a carbon price. Another might be to set a fixed price. So there’s a variety of things that could be put in place. We would still say we have to have a definite transition set in place so that after that dry run we move into a freer market regime where we ratchet up the targets. Hopefully by then we’ll know what the rest of the world’s going to do.

Heather, it’s called NGER. The legislation passed in 2007. Continue reading ‘Redundant Ridout’

  1. Props to Tim and Lefty E [back]

UN climate negotiations – what’s going on?

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Robert Merkel
1 year, 3 months ago
in Climate change, Environment and International
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Poznan looks like a rather pleasant city to visit. That’s handy, because there’s a fair chance that Penny Wong and the rest of the Australian delegation might have some time on their hands. As The Guardian notes in this handy Q&A, the negotiations are in somewhat of a holding pattern while George W. Bush waddles off the damn stage:

So what will happen at Poznan?

Perhaps not much. Countries will be unwilling to commit to anything until they have seen how the new US administration are likely to act on climate. Insiders say that means little genuine progress on agreeing new carbon cuts can be expected until the middle of next year.

Even given that, however, the behaviour of the Australian government in the lead-up to the conference has been worrying. Continue reading ‘UN climate negotiations – what’s going on?’