Hopes of full climate agreement are 'Noddyland stuff' - Business - NZ Herald News

The minister responsible for climate change negotiations, Tim Groser, says we should not expect the big conference in Copenhagen in December to come up with anything like the Kyoto Protocol.

"The idea that Copenhagen could, in the language used at the Poznan conference, result in a 'full and certifiable international agreement for the second commitment period' is Noddyland stuff."

That is now generally accepted, he said. "I'm actually quite pleased because if you follow an impossible objective like that the risk is you end up with nothing."

What negotiators are working towards is some kind of framework agreement, which has elements of a deal.

National Grid to build carbon emissions pipelines - Low Carbon Economy

The National Grid is planning to set up a network to pipe carbon dioxide emissions into underground storage beneath the North Sea.

A £2 billion carbon transport and storage network is being planned to support future power plants fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipment, Chris Train, the director of network operations, told the Times.

But if your six-year-old is afraid of monsters under his bed, would you pay thousands to some scamster for under-bed-monster protection?

If you were to click on my bio here for Sustainablog, you’d see that I started down this green path because my son who was six at the time had read about global warming and gave us the “what for” over the SUV we owned. We joke now with him that he was the one that got this whole thing started for our family, yet at times he seems, at almost ten years old, the least interested in the environment. In a way, that may be a good thing.