Businesses are apprehensive on ETS due to downturn

16/12/2008 - Businesses will remain apprehensive about emissions trading while the global financial "firestorm" continues, Australia's largest business group says.

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Peter Anderson says a compensation package worth more than $1 billion to help business and community groups adjust to emissions trading was "not a bad idea".

Who are the (un)intended losers from emissions trading?

David Richardson / The Australia Institute
The Introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme has the potential to significantly reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, but the issue of which groups should be compensated, and by how much, is yet to be addressed. Posted 23-09-2008

Is it time to ditch offsets in favour of "climate compensation"?

By author@nospam.vnunet.com (James Murray) on offsets

James Murray, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 27 August 2008 at 12:18:00

Research claims simpler "climate compensation" model needed to tackle low customer awareness of offsetting

Carbon offseting providers should embrace an entirely new business model based on simplified "climate compensation" funds rather than intricately calculated offsets if the fledgling industry wants to tap into growing...