Norway – a large bilateral aid donor to Indonesia on addressing deforestation – has asked that the country set up two independent bodies to govern forestry protection efforts.
Norway is providing billions of aid dollars to …

New Zealand will release a review on its emissions trading scheme later this month which may cause for some changes in the program, Climate Change Minister Nick Smith told the Climate Change and Business conference in Wellington.
 
He said …

“If a tree falls in the forest and it was supposed to have canceled out a company’s carbon emissions, who bears responsibility? It’s among many dilemmas California faces as it rolls out its landmark climate …

There are many advantages to linking New Zealand and Australia’s carbon schemes, writes Gary Taylor in the New Zealand Herald. Taylor is convenor of the 7th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference, coming up in Wellington, …

GCS has launched a Press Centre!
Check out the journalist toolkit here, complete with recent press releases, coverage of GCS and its work, brochures, experts, and much more.
 
 
 

The world’s forests remove 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere – equivalent to one third of current annual fossil fuel emissions – according to new research published in the journal Science.
The article quotes …

Paul Osborne from AAP flags the potential for fraud in the global carbon trading market in a story syndicated in both the Fairfax and News Limited press. He says: “Under the government’s carbon pricing plan …

GCS CEO James Schultz is extensively quoted on what has been learned in the past decade in carbon trading in a series of newspapers, via republishing of an AAP article.
The SMH story titled “Security improving but experts …

Australia on Sunday unveiled details of its carbon policy, setting the price at AU$23 per carbon tonne emitted by the country’s top 500 polluters starting in mid-2012, and then raising the price 2.5 per cent …

Our website news readers are probably often wondering how carbon tax and emissions trading schemes around the world compare. The UK’s Guardian newspaper published this useful review of country comparisons on Sunday:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/10/carbon-tax-emissions-trading-international