Carbon trading –thoughts thrown up in the air!
I have concerns.
- The market is currently an unregulated mess.
- In some states perfectly good natural ecosystems are being cleared to plant unsuitable trees to “reduce carbon emissions”.
- In other states, SA for a prime example, the water restriction on garden watering are causing the death of large trees that absorb CO2 emissions. I am not objecting to water restrictions BUT they need to be intelligent so that people have the choice of how their use their available water allocation. Some may choose to conserve water in the house with very brief showers and less flushing of the yellow in the toilet (the old rural adage is “if it is brown, flush it down, if it is yellow, let it mellow”). If this is the case they should be free to use this saved water.
- I intrinsically feel that paying taxes on emissions is more of an incentive to reduce them and probably easy and cheaper from an accounting viewpoint, that carbon trading.
- I think we need simple technology that can allow us to reduce our energy use passively – things like turning off all power except essentials when you leave a room or house. People don’t change habits easily.
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Jean Cannon
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Jean is an award winning consultant and trainer helping people and businesses around the world who want greater efficiency and reduced stress! If you sometimes need to deal with staff errors and what is even worse, covered up errors that come back to bite, you are riding a time bomb and Jean will help you defuse it. Plus get you real recognition from markets and regulators.
The good news is that this is now available as online training so you only need to commit to one hour per week and no travel. You can even Do-It-Yourself! .
