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|  | | | | "Home Planet is the environmental programme for which you set the agenda. We tackle your questions and concerns and try and make some sense out of the conflicting opinions which make up the environmental debate."
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Panel
Dr Ros Tayor, Kingston University
Dr Nick Riley, British Geological Survey
Professor Philip Stott
TOPICS
Cut flowers from Kenya
How sustainable is this multi-million pound business?
Flora culture International
World Flowers
Biotechnology and Development Monitor (from 1994)
The Guardian
The Guardian
Ethical Consumer
Ozone over the North and South Poles
Why has there been such a difference in the loss of ozone over the Antarctic compared with the Arctic?
British Antarctic Survey
Queen Mary University of London
NASA
Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge
University of Hawaii
International Polar Year
Daylight Saving
JR Stockton's website
National Maritime Museum
Celsius and Centigrade
BBC h2g2
History of Measurement
A brief history of temperature measurement
National Research and Development Centre
Global Fossil Fuel Levy
Home Planet listener and Oceanographer, Pat Hyder proposed a global fossil fuel levy to both tackle climate change and address poverty in the developing world. This is the extract from his, yet unpublished, paper:
Given the widespread current concern regarding our failure to control carbon dioxide emissions and the expected depletion of oil, gas and coal resources, it would seem timely to re-examine the feasibility of a levy on fossil fuels (i.e. a form of carbon tax). A novel approach would be to implement the levy globally and use the sizeable revenue generated to finance investment in sustainable development and the reduction of poverty. The recent International Energy Agency report 'Energy Technology Perspectives - Scenarios and Strategies to 2050' states 'the world is not heading for a sustainable energy future' and 'this alarming outlook can be changed but it will require substantial investment' in energy efficiency and technology. Furthermore G8 2005 aid objectives towards the UN Millennium Development Goals require large increases in aid investment. Such a levy would therefore constitute an integrated approach to achieving accepted climate, energy and development goals, for which funding will anyway need to be sourced. It would, of course, be naïve to imagine that international agreement on such a levy would be easy to attain, and details such as waivers for developing countries would need to be determined. Present circumstances, however, require that every avenue should be explored.
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