Missing in Action?

MIA is an apt explanation/excuse for the delayed distribution of issue 131, the first time in three years that abc carbon express has stretched to monthly instead of weekly!  Consequently, our coverage of news and views covers a broader spectrum of time and space. While now based in Singapore, I’m as determined as ever to present globally relevant content, with a bias towards the Asia Pacific, but not forgetting an Australasian flavour, in our balanced regional coverage. This week/month we profile John Daley, the Grattan Institute, as well as the ambitious Beyond Zero Emissions plan for Australia with Matthew Wright at the helm. What’s happening with the Government’s plan for carbon farming? And carbon pricing is in the news in Australia and Singapore. The Carbon Disclosure Project reports and there’s a review of global emissions in advance of the Cancun conference of parties (all 194 countries). Singapore’s successful green label scheme, the greening of the building sector, green cars and GE all vie for attention, along with Melbourne’s Green Drive Zone. We acknowledge the City of the Future conference (which we attended in Brisbane), the big US solar scheme, how green companies rate and what’s happening in the data centre world. Biodiversity gets some important global attention, as does the international tiger project, led by WWF to its St Petersburg finale. Back to work at the Sustain Ability Showcase Asia. – Ken Hickson