Global Carbon Trading: a Framework for Reducing Emissions

The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Chnage has released a report on global cap and trade: “Global Carbon Trading: a Framework for Reducing Emissions.”

http://www.decc.gov.uk/Media/viewfile.ashx?FilePath=What we do\Global climate change and energy\Tackling Climate Change\Emissions Trading\Lazarowicz report\1_20090720094330_e_@@_GlobalCarbonTradingaframeworkforreducingemissions.pdf&filetype=4

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

THE CURRENT FRAMEWORK

LONG-TERM FRAMEWORK FOR CARBON TRADING

NATIONAL TARGETS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

EMISSIONS TRADING

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES – A PHASED APPROACH

GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS

CAPACITY BUILDING

CONCLUSIONS

ANNEX A: SECTOR SUMMARIES:

Power Industry Forestry Agriculture Surface transport International shipping International aviation Buildings Waste

ANNEX B: EMISSION TRAJECTORIES IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD

ANNEX C: CAP AND TRADE IN PRACTICE – THE ACID RAIN PROGRAMME

ANNEX D: GLOBAL CARBON FINANCE MODEL

ANNEX E: CURRENT AND PROPOSED EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEMS

E-books in the news

The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, July 21, 2009, p. B1, Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon’s Kindle, by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Geoffrey A. Fowler.

“The biggest news here is the multi-channel integration of [Barnes& Noble's] physical store and e-book store via the iPhone ,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. “It makes use of B&N’s biggest asset: the brick-and-mortar store.”

. . .

Mountain View, Calif.-based Plastic Logic is targeting its e-book reader for the business audience, . . .

 

The New York Times, Tuesday, July 21, 2009, p. B1, “Barnes & Noble Plans An Extensive E-Bookstore,” by Motoko Rich.

. . . Barnes & Noble said that it would offer more than 700,000 books that could be read on a wide range of devices, including Apple’s iPhone, the BlackBerry and various . . .  computers. . . .

More than 500,000 of the books now offered electronically on BN.com can be downloaded free, through an agreement with Google to provide electronic versions of public domain books that Google has scanned from university libraries. Sony announced a similar deal in March to offer the public domain books on its Reader device.