Newsletter 4 - December 2008

The new, aptly named, 'Growing Up' project is helping to enable a group of young Melbournians tackle climate change, from above – or below – depending on which floor you sit on in your office building.

In preparation of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development has released the Melbourne Carbon Market Services Guide.

EPA Victoria (EPA) and ANZ completed the first voluntary retirement of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offsets from the New Zealand Government's Official Registry on 29 September 2008.

In the last edition of Carbon Matters, we launched a regular article about applying the EPA Carbon Management Principles to your business. This issue focuses on the second Carbon Management Principle: set objectives.

In this issue, Carbon Matters introduces Network member Scott McKenry.

Scott has been working at the National Centre for Sustainability at the Swinburne University of Technology for two years now as Team Leader in Business and Community Engagement. The work of the Centre is aimed at environmental sustainability, with a strong focus on education.