In an uncertain climate, Australia should start by fixing a carbon price

[Non-climatologist ROSS GARNAUT] Copenhagen's failure is no excuse for us to shirk from action.

MAKING policy about climate change requires decisions under uncertainty. Humans are not good at this, but decisions and life go on. Nothing that happened at Copenhagen changes the odds about the mainstream science being broadly right.

Did the fiasco at Copenhagen change anything? Maybe, and Yes.

UK: using woodlands to cut emissions - Scitizen

The UK is one of the least forested countries in Europe. Although the amount of woodland cover has increased substantially since its nadir after the First World War, growth has slackened in recent years. The growing maturity of UK woodlands means that carbon sequestration is falling rapidly. An independent assessment commissioned by the Forestry Commission has proposed one way forward: a million new hectares devoted to woodland, generating a reduction of up to 15% of the UK emissions in 2050.

The UK’s woodland was depleted by the needs of industry, urbanization and agriculture and fell to little more than 6% of national land area in the early 1920s. Wood was virtually absent from many lowland areas in England. A recovery in the area given over to woodland means that about 12% of the UK is now forested but this number is only rising very slowly. Net new forestation is now well below 10,000 hectares (100 sq km) a year, much of which is in Scotland.

Family shrinking their earthly footprint - Owen Sound Sun Times - Ontario, CA

Future plans for the family could eventually include building a cob dwelling, they said, after more research and experimentation.
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Donais said the most satisfying example of their low impact lifestyle is "humanure composting" which means using an outhouse and adding their own waste to the compost pile. It's something she's wanted to do for years, but couldn't in the city.

"To me it's an extremely satisfying way of closing the loop of eating and giving back," she said. "There's absolutely no other intervention. It goes into the bucket, goes into the compost, turns into compost to add to the soil and there's no waste."

Exelon clings to cap-and-trade plan for carbon - Burns on Business

Remember that rosy time not so long ago when solving the problem of global warming and reducing our carbon footprints were among the most pressing issues at hand?

John Rowe does, and he's not letting go of the memories.

The chief executive of Exelon Corp. admitted last week that his cherished cap-and-trade plan for cutting carbon emissions has encountered "serious trouble."
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"The first quarter really was the window of opportunity for cap-and-trade legislation to get passed," noted Jim Kharouf, editor of the Environmental Markets Newsletter in Chicago. "There's just not enough political willpower. Cap-and-trade is cooked for this year."