Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
has just been published by the PostCarbon Institute. This guidebook aims to help local governments prepare for the challenges of peak oil and climate change.
An exceptionally clear and comprehensive call-to-action to those who actually work in the trenches of city governance.” James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency
While written for the North American context I hope that some of our forward thinking councils in New Zealand will give at least the Executive Summary a brief perusal.
Councils that are wanting to get serious about these issues should also be looking to join up with the Communities for Climate Action run by the ICLEI-NZ (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Currently 27 Councils have joined up.
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Good to see someone tried it before I got round to it. DomPost ran a story about an attempt to sell some carbon credits on TradeMe.
South Island forest industry executive Peter Weir listed a maximum sale of 2700 tonnes of carbon credits, with bids getting to $34 a tonne, before the auction was cancelled by Trade Me.
It is an idea I think will come to fruition. And by putting out via such an accessible mechanism has the potential for some interesting developments for kiwis to offset. Imagine you want to opt-in to offsetting some travel. A quick visit to TradeMe would enable one to pick and choose between purchasing for restoration projects, forest plantations or adoption of carbon-avoiding technologies. This could be a viable mechanism for kiwis to support developing countries by purchasing carbon credits from sources that will directly help either protect habitats that would otherwise ’suffer’ development, or adopt technologies that will help them off carbon-based fuels.
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