July 6, 2012
After years of controversial political debate, China has its carbon tax! It has taken the courage of Julia Gillard, the socialist prime minister since 2010, to get there. As of July 1. 2012, 294 companies and municipal councils will be subject to a A$ 23 tax per ton of C02. That is more than twice… » read more
Posted by Eberhard Rhein
December 19, 2008
Just two days after the European Council has adopted the EU climate policy package, the Australian government has followed suit, presenting its “carbon pollution reduction scheme”. That is good news because it shows that the rich countries are finally getting serious for the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009. For Australia action on the climate… » read more
Posted by Eberhard Rhein
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Climate Conference, Climate Diplomacy, Climate Negotiations, Climate Package, Energy and Climate, Energy and Climate Policy, energy saving, English |
December 18, 2008
After its agreement on December 12, the EU might wish to sit back and say: mission accomplished. That would be a fatal error. The real mission only starts now. The EU has to motivate the rest of the world to also engage in the battle against climate change. The preparatory meetings for the decisive international… » read more
Posted by Eberhard Rhein
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Energy and Climate, Energy and Climate Policy, energy saving, Energy Supply, English |
October 14, 2008
Humanity is living through its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression 1929-33. A decade of complacency, self-deceit and appalling flaws of government regulation and oversight, above all in the USA but also in Europe, have been at the root of the financial disaster that has been unfolding for the past 18 months. It has… » read more
Posted by Eberhard Rhein
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biofuels, Climate change, energy saving, EU, Europe, Financial Crisis, global warming, renewable energy sources, sustainable energy, USA |
August 26, 2008
Scientists have been warning us for the past 20 years about the consequences of rising temperatures for the earth’s biosphere, forecasting increasing loss of biodiversity, more frequent epidemics, hurricanes and droughts. So far with little avail! Humanity continues business as usual, brushing aside local or regional disasters as the unavoidable by-effects of “economic development” that… » read more
Posted by Eberhard Rhein
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biofuels, Britain, Caribbean, Climate change, Cyprus, energy saving, Florida, global warming, Israel, Nature, renewable energy sources, Rocky Mountains, sustainable energy |
Thoughts on energy and climate, the Mediterranean and whatever comes to mind.
