Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting to Begin for Australian Corporations
by Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY on 06.27.08
photo by Dallas Ewing
In addition to British Columbia’s efforts to combat climate change, July 1 marks the start of another greenhouse gas reduction initiative: Australia’s National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System.
Mandates Greenhouse Gas Emissions Record-Keeping
From next Tuesday, corporate groups which emit more than 125 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases, or produce or consume 500 terajoules or more of energy will be require to begin collecting data on their emissions. Also, corporations controlling facilities that emit more than 25 kilotonnes of greenhouse gases, or produce 100 terajoules or more of energy will also have to begin keeping records. The data collected will have to be submitted, from October 2009, as part of annual greenhouse gas and energy reports.
Corporations Given Over A Year to Register
Strangely, corporations to whom the scheme might apply have until August 31, 2009 to register for the program. This begs the question, how many corporations will wait until the last minute to register and then claim they don’t have enough time to compile the necessary data to file their reports.
Senator Penny Wong, minister for climate change and water said that, “The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System will be an important part of our efforts to tackle climate change as we move to establish an emissions trading scheme.”
Considering that Australia has the highest carbon emissions per capita, hopefully this scheme will be an effective start at changing that ignoble statistic.
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100 Terrajoules (I assume per year) works out to 3.2 megawattsof production, 400 terrajoules then means 13 MW of consumption. For production, 3.2 MW is miniscule- any fossil fuel plant is in the hundreds of MW, up to about a gigawatt or so.
Also, I am not sure how I feel about this policy. On one hand, it would be easier to say, every ton of CO2 emitted will cost $x for corporations doing the emitting. But having the accounting done beforehand with no listed price would tend to discourage- lets call it "creative bookkeeping." SO there is great hope for a policy like this, but it really depends on what happens in 2009 after the companies register. If Australia sits in the data, no change happens.
Why do you have the cooling tower of a Nuclear plant as the picture for this article? That's steam rising from the stack... you are a aware that's not a Greenhouse Gas right??? Little bit of a subtle dig on nuclear power I assume?
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The photo was chosen because I think in the minds of many people that the image evokes the idea of climate change, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions—even if from a scientific perspective it isn't entirely accurate.
In "An Inconvenient Truth" there is an image of a ship stranded on the sand in the Aral Sea. It is used to evoke the idea of climate change. However, from a scientific standpoint the drying of the Aral Sea has little to do with climate change and everything to do with water use policies in the former Soviet Union which favored irrigation at the expense of the Aral. Nevertheless the image was powerful in the film.
The symbolic and evocative can be much more powerful than the literal...which is the only reason the photo is being used. If I had a good literal image that was also evocative I would have used that, however as none was at hand I chose this one.