Exclusive: Private equity raises carbon reporting fears

The scheme is intended to target large emitters not covered by the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS), such as supermarkets, hotels, universities and hospitals, and as a result requires firms to report on emissions from right across their activities rather than from individual sites.

Minchin accuses ABC of carbon pollution bias - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Liberal Senator Nick Minchin has accused the ABC of bias for referring to carbon dioxide emissions as carbon pollution.

The Federal Government has labelled its emissions trading scheme as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Senator Minchin has told a Senate estimates committee that carbon dioxide is not classified as a pollutant.

He says the ABC has adopted the Government's terminology.

"It is a nonsense to describe it as a pollutant. I mean, it is grossly misleading of the public to describe it as a pollutant," he said.

Green Window Into the Future « La Marguerite

Yesterday, I got seized with a severe case of eco² panic. Eco like green. Eco like economic. Images of CO2 going nuts, and us still not getting our act together, despite almost daily global warming alerts.