Carbon Alert - February 2011

A monthly resource round-up of recently released reports and upcoming events and training opportunities.

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Climate Change Policy and Legislation

Draft NGER Supplementary Guidelines: Public Disclosure of Additional Energy Consumption Data. These draft supplementary guidelines, released by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, aim to provide a remedy for concerns that NGER disclosure provisions could lead to exaggerated perceptions of the amount of energy companies buy and generate (January 2011)

Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program: Mid-Cycle Review. This document is the Executive Summary of the final Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program Mid-Cycle Review Report.  The report was commissioned by the Department of Resources Energy and Tourism to measure the effectiveness of the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program up until mid 2010 (December 2010)

Proposed Changes to the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program Assessment and Reporting Requirements with Clarification on the Second Cycle – Discussion Paper. This discussion paper, released by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, proposes minor refinements to the participation, assessment and reporting requirements of the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program.  It aims to ensure that participants are clearly aware of the ongoing requirements of the program as it moves into the second program cycle (January 2011)

Tax Breaks for Green Buildings: Consultation Paper. This consultation paper, released by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, is designed to inform stakeholders about, and garner feedback on, the proposed legislative and policy design of the Tax Breaks program. Submissions close on 18 February (January 2011)

Design of the Carbon Farming Initiative: National Farmers Federation (NFF) Submission. This submission is the NFF’s response to the Carbon Farming Initiative draft bill (January 2011)

Garnaut Climate Change Review – Update 2011. These papers, released by Professor Ross Garnaut, are the first two of eight update papers which include new developments and consider wether the conclusions drawn in the 2008 Review have changed (February 2011)

 

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Carbon Management and Accounting

Climate Change 101: Business Solutions. This brief by the Pew Center is part of the 2011 edition of the Climate Change 101 Series which aims to provide a reliable and understandable introduction to global climate change. The series begins with an overview report that serves as a summary and introduction to the series.  The full report consists of eight briefs covering climate science and impacts, adaptation, technological solutions, business solutions, international action, U.S. federal, state and local action (January 2011)

Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Agricultural Sector: Proposed Accounting and Reporting Steps. This paper, released by the World Resources Institute, outlines accounting and reporting procedures for the agricultural sector based on the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (January 2011)

GHG Schemes Addressing Climate Change: How ISO Standards Help. This publication from the International Standards Organisation, maps available GHG standards and programs and provides information to potential users.  The publication includes standards and programs currently under development (February 2011)

 

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International Climate Change News

Post-Cancun Analysis. This publication, released by the Climate Group, provides an analysis of the results of the Cancun Agreements and reactions from key countries (January 2011)

New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) Review 2011 —

Terms of Reference. These terms of reference are for a review of New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme commissioned by the New Zealand Government. The review seeks to investigate operational detail and outline the pace of implementation (January 2011)

Gazetting New Zealand’s 2050 Emissions Target. This position paper, released by New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister Nick Smith, provides the rationale behind the proposed emissions target and seeks comment (January 2011)

Climate Principles: Progress Review. This publication, released by the Climate Group, reviews the progress which signatories to the Climate Principles have made over the last twelve months.  The report compares their progress with the 2010 Review, describes focus areas for action, and illustrates some of the highlights through case studies (January 2011)

UK Climate Change Sustainable Development Indicator: 2009 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Final Figures. This publication, released by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, presents the final estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2009 (February 2011)

IETA Position on Market Disruptive Impacts of Stolen Allowances in the EU ETS. This position paper, released by the International Emissions Trading Association, puts forward a number of important questions and recommendations.  It considers the key to market confidence and recommendations for security features of the EU ETS (January 2011)

Climate Change 101: International Action. This brief by the Pew Center is part of the 2011 edition of the Climate Change 101 series (January 2011)

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation. This report, released by the Pew Center, examines the prospects for substantially reducing GHG emissions from the U.S transportation sector, which accounts for 27 percent of the GHG emissions for the entire U.S economy.  The U.S. produces 30 percent of the world’s transportation emissions (January 2011)

 

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Energy, Technology and Renewables

Climate Change 101: Technological Solutions. This brief by the Pew Center is part of the 2011 edition of the Climate Change 101 series (January 2011)

100% Renewable Energy by 2050. WWF has released a report that sets out a strategy for a global shift to total reliance on renewable energy by 2050. A supplement to the report was also released that discusses what it would take for Australia to reach a 100% renewable energy target by 2050 (February 2011)

 

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Climate Change Science and Adaptation

Coasts and Climate Change Council Report to Minister Combet. This report, released by the Chair of the Coasts and Climate Change Council, Professor Tim Flannery, provides recommendations to the Australian Government on coastal adaptation. It proposes a 10 year national coastal adaptation agenda be defined and suggests four priority areas (January 2011)

Adapting to Climate Change: Helping Key Sectors to Adapt to Climate Change. This report, released by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, presents some of the initial findings of the first reports received from key UK infrastructure organisations. The organistaions have been directed to report on how they are assessing and acting on climate change risks and opportunities (January 2011)

Climate Change 101. The following two briefs by the Pew Center are part of the 2011 edition of the Climate Change 101 series (January 2011)

  

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