[LINK] Australian Climate Change Minister on prospects for China/USA agreement in Durban
Tom Worthington
tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Fri Nov 25 12:00:05 AEDT 2011
Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where the
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet AM MP, is
speaking on "Carbon markets and international linkage: Australia and the
UN Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011". A podcast of the
presentation will be provided later.
One major issue is if there will be sufficient confidence in a carbon
trading mechanism. The EU had problems with the security of their
on-line trading system. Some way to audit thousands of offsets projects
around the world will be needed. These might use some techniques from
arms agreement verification, with satellite surveillance to make sure
that companies and countries are not cheating.
See: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/11/arbon-markets-australia-and-durban.html
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