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Earth Matters
Program 82a
Juliet Fox
3CR Community Radio
03 9419 8377
ComRadSat Program 3/9/1999
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Greenhouse gas emissions trading
The Greenhouse Effect is a natural occurrence that is currently being
exacerbated by human activity. The predicted results include an increase in
sea levels of 15-95 centimetres and a warming of the earth that could see
the Great Barrier Reef die out in 30 years. In 1997 the Kyoto Climate
Change conference in Japan tried to address the massive global problem by
creating the Kyoto Protocol. Its aims were to wind back global greenhouse
gas emissions by creating reduction targets for each country. Australia
managed to achieve an overall increase of some 8%.
Today 3CR's Marion MacGregor explores the ways governments and companies
are seeking to make the most of the situation, including a profit, out of
any proposed reductions in overall greehnouse gas emissions. One way is
making carbon credits a commodity on the national and international trading
markets.
On the show we hear firstly from David Harrison, senior advisor, Australian
Greenhouse Office, on how carbon credits will become a tradable commodity.
Col Sutherland, from Eddisson Mission Energy, joins Earth Matters to
discuss his company's involvement in setting up tree plantations to offset
the carbon emissions from his brown coal industry in the La Trobe Valley in
Victoria - so called "Bush for Greenhouse".
Anna Reynolds is the National Liaison officer with the Australian
Conservation Foundation. Anna asks whether tree planting really is an
effective way to offset the pollution caused by burning coal? Together with
Erwin Jackson, from Greenpeace, they also question the appropriateness of
dealing with the Greenhouse Effect in this way rather than addressing how
we can move to renewable energy and stop our dependence on fossil fuels.
We also hear from Chris Mitchell from CSIRO Atmospheric Research Division,
who explains the developing national carbon credit accounting system and
just how much is known about the amount of carbon that is stored in forests.
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