ATA’s recent Melbourne Seminar (4/9/08) focused on the concept of Carbon Rationing: Could carbon become a new currency? – Are personal carbon allowances, reminiscent of wartime rations, the way forward?

ATA’s seminar explored the idea of carbon rationing, which has been examined by the UK Government in their report “A Rough Guide to Individual Carbon Trading” and also supported by George Monbiot in “Heat”. The presenter, David Spratt, co-author of Climate Code Red, advocates personal carbon allowances as the most fair and equitable means of rapidly reducing carbon emissions. David looked at the science relating to global warming and why greenhouse emissions would be best controlled by personal carbon allowances. David is a climate-policy analyst, co-founded Carbon Equity in 2006 and, with Philip Sutton, he is the co-author of “Climate Code Red”, published in July 2008.

For those unable to attend the seminar, David has kindly made his slides available and also the article below which explains the concept of carbon rationing.

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Click here Click here to download the article.

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