Carbon currency – the credits and debits of carbon emissions trading
Useful Sites
The Australian Government Department of Climate Change
Carbon pollution reduction scheme – green paper summary
Summarises the Australian Government’s proposed national emissions trading system.
About National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS)
Explains the accounting system for land-based sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Includes links to the following topics:
- Biomass – plant growth and life cycle analysis
- Climate – soil moisture and forest productivity mapping
- Land cover – mapping clearing and revegetation
- Land use – mapping use and management
- Soil – carbon measurement and modelling
- Modelling – carbon stocks and flows
National greenhouse gas inventory 2007
Provides Australia's greenhouse gas emissions for 2007.
Emissions – who is trading what? (Parliament of Australia)
Provides an overview of emissions trading and existing schemes.
Understanding the carbon pollution reduction scheme (Queensland Resources Council, Australia)
Clearly explains the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme with key elements, goals and milestones.
Forests NSW - Carbon accounting and trading (State Forests of New South Wales, Australia)
Provides information on the NSW Greenhouse Abatement Scheme
eCarbon news (Australian Climate Forum)
Provides links to the latest stories on climate change, energy, emissions and sequestration from Australia and around the world.
International climate efforts beyond 2012: A survey of approaches (Pew Center on Global Climate Change, USA)
Discusses alternative approaches to mitigating climate change beyond 2012.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The text of the Kyoto protocol.
A summary of the Kyoto Protocol
Kyoto Protocol status of ratification
Provides a list of all signatory countries.
Accomplishments to date...and challenges
Summarises some of the successes and shortcomings of the Kyoto protocol.
Emissions trading: The 'carbon market'
Explains the carbon market.
Climate and atmosphere: Country profiles (Earthtrends, World Resources Institute)
This site provides a map of the world to access climate related information (includes Australia).
Vital climate graphics (United Nations Environment Programme)
Provides links to background information on climate change, observed climate trends and the potential impacts of climate change.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Calculating carbon (Landline, 2 March 2008)
Discusses the role of agriculture in offsetting Australia’s carbon emissions.
Britain considers personal carbon quotas (The Science Show, 28 October 2006)
Reports on the British government's consideration of a carbon taxation system.
The business of climate change (Background Briefing, 16 October 2005, ABC)
Soil may belch out CO2 to warm planet (News in Science, 8 September 2005)
Timeline of milestones (American Institute of Physics, USA)
Provides a timeline of important dates in the discovery of global warming.
Page updated December 2009.