Flannery's plan: buy forests to help environment


	Flannery's plan: buy forests to help environment

tabsey

1-30-2008 1:10 AM

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climate change

tabsey says:

An interesting approach.

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tropical forests under a groundbreaking scheme being devised by
former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/flannerys-plan-buy-forests-to-help-environment/2008/01/29/1201369135949.html?s_cid=rss_national"><P>Professor Flannery outlined his proposal yesterday in a private
meeting with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's hand-picked climate change
adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/flannerys-plan-buy-forests-to-help-environment/2008/01/29/1201369135949.html?s_cid=rss_national"><P>Professor Flannery — Australia's most prominent
environmental campaigner — wants to set up an internet-based
carbon market with a pilot scheme to be run in Papua New
Guinea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/flannerys-plan-buy-forests-to-help-environment/2008/01/29/1201369135949.html?s_cid=rss_national"><P>In a paper prepared for Professor Garnaut, Professor Flannery
says 20% of global carbon emissions come from the wholesale
destruction of tropical forests, so preservation must be part of
any effective response to climate change.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/flannerys-plan-buy-forests-to-help-environment/2008/01/29/1201369135949.html?s_cid=rss_national"><P>His scheme envisages that households and businesses would be
able to secure the protection of forests and the replanting of
trees through an auction scheme.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FBD72380-CAB0-4E15-9F1B-580DB67FB235/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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